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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. All right, we finally made it a part three. We're talking about zinc. If you have not seen part one, part two, I put the links down below. But zinc is a very fascinating mineral and very vital to your health. A lot of people are deficient. But it also affects the prostate.

Out of all your tissues, the prostate

has the most concentration of zinc of any tissue that you have.

And having a deficiency of zinc

could lead to hypogonatism where you have smaller testicles,

smaller output of testosterone because you need zinc to make testosterone.

Your sperm is rich in zinc as well. And also if you have an

large prostate you may have high levels of something called D. H.T.

which is a more potent version of testosterone and there's an enzyme that converts testosterone to

D.H. It just so happens that zinc blocks that enzyme. So zinc is really important in prostate health,

testosterone health, and sperm viability. All right, the next thing we're

talking about is insulin. So zinc is actually stored with insulin. It's involved in the production of insulin.

It's also involved in the secretion in storage of insulin.

So if you're type 2 diabetic, it might be a good idea to make sure you have enough.

Patients that have pancreatitis, for example, are usually low in zinc,

and also a condition called pancreatic insufficiency.

Basically it means that the function of the insulin is suppressed

and there's two parts to the pancreas.

You have the extricant gland, which is all the enzymes, okay okay so if you have a deficiency of the

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