There are some really important signs or indications that our body is desperately demanding trace minerals.

So let's talk about trace minerals. What is a trace mineral? It's a mineral that is needed in trace

amounts or tiny, tiny amounts many times below even one milligram in the microgram level. So an

example of a trace mineral would be like zinc, iodine, selenium, copper, manganese versus other

minerals that are needed in larger amounts like potassium, calcium, magnesium. So what is so

significant about these trace minerals? Well, why do we need them in such tiny amounts if at all?

Well, trace minerals are essential to enzymes. Enzymes are proteins that basically do the work of

the body. You might think of enzymes just for digestion, but enzymes are involved in all of your

biochemistry and making cells and repairing DNA and proofreading DNA and making hormones and

converting hormones into the active form in turning glucose into fat. There are thousands and thousands

and thousands of biochemical pathways involving these enzymes. And it's incredibly complex. And

one thing we know for sure about these enzymes is there's a lot we don't know, but we do know these

minerals, including trace minerals and regular minerals and vitamins, are the cofactors that these

enzyme or biochemical pathways depend on and without them our biochemistry does not work.

So let's just take for example zinc. Zinc is involved with over 300 different enzymes having

functions ranging from the breakdown of alcohol to the production of testosterone to building

immune weaponry to kill off pathogens also involved in detoxifying chemicals and even making

neural transmitters that greatly affect your mood. And there's actually over two billion people

on this planet that are deficient in zinc primarily because of another compound called

phytic acid that is in grains like sorrows and crackers and breads and things like that that

basically prevent the absorption of zinc and other minerals. And if someone doesn't consume

meat or red meat or animal products, it's very difficult to get the right form of zinc

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