Welcome to the Doctor Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Berg.

Let's answer the question, what is the first sign of a zinc deficiency?

Now, clinically, when you're deficient in zinc, all sorts of things happen.

A lack of growth, anorexia, tissue necrosis, you can actually get tissue dying from a lack of zinc,

all sorts of skin issues, all sorts of digestive issues, infection, viruses, bacteria, hair loss,

ulcers, and the list goes on and on.

You don't have a major deficiency, but you're just starting to become deficient in zinc.

Well, to answer that, we need to kind of look at some other data.

Number one, when you low in zinc, you will have a lowered amount of very specific antioxidants,

glutathione, alpha-decoffral, and catalysts, which has to do with the detoxification of hydrogen peroxide.

So in other words, very powerful antioxidants in our bodies are dependent on zinc.

And without zinc, you will not be able to produce these insufficient amounts.

Now, there's some additional information I want to share with you.

Cardiac tissue, or heart tissue, is the highest producer of something called Ross.

So just think about Ross as something that creates a lot of oxidation.

And the heart cells, as a tissue, we compare it to other tissues in the body,

has one of the lowest antioxidant capacity, and what does that mean?

So in other words, it becomes very susceptible to becoming damaged.

This is probably why the number one cause of death is heart disease.

The heart is not able to repair effectively, and the first symptom is you're going to get shortness of breath upon exertion.

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