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Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. Hey guys, today we're going to talk about a very fascinating, interesting topic,

zinc, okay? Now because zinc is so vital for your body and it's just a fascinating mineral, I create three parts.

First thing you need to know is 2 billion people on this planet are deficient in zinc.

That's crazy. That's a lot of people that are deficient. I would

imagine it's even more than that as far as having a subclinical deficiency.

And as we go through this you'll see what I'm talking about.

One thing about zinc is the body does not store it,

so you have to constantly actually take it in.

And it's a trace manner, which means that we need it

in smaller amounts compared to things like potassium and it's essential.

So what does it mainly do?

It acts as a co-factor, okay, for over a thousand enzymes.

So you have all these chemical reactions going on at the cellular level

with DNA turning into RNA, which is the kind of the blueprints turning into the copy of those blueprints and the

transcription and the interpretation and all that and the building of

proteins all needs zinc. So the enzymes are those things in the body that do all the work and they need certain minerals to accomplish their job.

10% of all human protein is bound to zinc. It's a vital vital nutrient. It's the most common

deficiency in crops, so I want to read something here.

Scarcity in the soil deficiency of micronutrients are essential for plant growth can lead to a lower crop yield.

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