The Unique Benefits of Zinc: Dr. Berg Explains It's Vital Importance
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Let’s talk about zinc. Zinc is involved in 300 different enzymes and over 1000 factors related to DNA.
Zinc is involved in your sleep cycles, cognitive function, and making neurotransmitters. Having low zinc increases your risk of diabetes.
Zinc also makes up an important group of antioxidants involved with your brain, heart, and muscles. It even helps reduce oxidative stress involved with the mitochondria.
Instead of masking a symptom related to zinc deficiency or any other health issue, it's crucial to get to the deeper problem to help prevent further concerns. Learning how to support a healthy body and avoid health issues or recognize the early stages of one is much more simple than trying to fight a health problem.
Side effects of advanced zinc deficiency can include:
• Loss of appetite
• Necrosis
• Ulcers
• Hypogonadism
• Low testosterone
• Thymus atrophy
• High cortisol
• Muscle loss
The organ that is most affected by zinc deficiency is the pancreas. The most common early sign of zinc deficiency is foul-smelling stool that floats.
Other early signs of zinc deficiency include:
• Shortness of breath upon exertion
• Cramping
• Diarrhea
• Abdominal pain
• Bloating
Top causes of zinc deficiency:
• Lack of zinc in the diet
• Malabsorption
• Inflammation in the gut
• Phytates or phytic acid (grains)
• Consuming sugar
• Diabetes
• Stress
• Drinking alcohol
• Infection
Foods rich in zinc:
1. Oysters
2. Crab
3. Other shellfish
4. Meats
5. Fish
6. Nuts
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm going to share some very important information about zinc and the reason I'm talking about zinc is that zinc is involved in so many different things. |
| 0:09.0 | It's involved in 300 different enzymes and over a thousand different factors related to your DNA. |
| 0:16.6 | Its functions are very wide in helping certain enzymes, not just for digestion, but for a lot of other things. |
| 0:24.8 | And if you can identify early signs of a zinc deficiency, |
| 0:27.6 | sometimes they call it a subclinical deficiency, |
| 0:30.5 | then you can prevent advanced problems related to zinc and that could include a complete loss of appetite and you end up having anorexia. |
| 0:40.0 | Necrosis because the tissue is not healing and so zinc actually helps with wound healing and if you're deficient in zinc you can develop ulcers |
| 0:49.9 | externally or internally on your body even even ulcers in your mouth, |
| 0:54.0 | and even some elderly that have these ulcers |
| 0:56.0 | because they're in this bed |
| 0:58.0 | and they're unheeling ulcers or wounds, |
| 1:01.0 | they need zinc big time. |
| 1:03.4 | Another advanced problem with zinc is hypogonadism, |
| 1:07.1 | where your testicles actually atrophy or shrink, |
| 1:10.7 | so you're obviously going to have low testosterone. |
| 1:13.0 | That could be an advanced zinc deficiency. |
| 1:16.0 | And I'm going to put all this research down below in the description. |
| 1:19.0 | Another interesting advanced problem would be thymous atrophy. The thymis gland is on top of the heart and that |
| 1:25.8 | has a huge influence of making certain T cells that are involved with the immune system. |
| 1:30.9 | It's like a training camp for your immune system and if you have |
| 1:34.4 | atrophy of the thymus gland, can you imagine what's going to happen to your immune system? |
| 1:38.2 | You're not going to have an immune system. Then we have the adrenal hormone called cortisol. Your cortisol can greatly go up if you're deficient in |
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