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🗓️ 17 December 2023
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Today, we’re going to talk about the fascinating connection between vitamin D and zinc.
Many people don’t realize that zinc is vital to allow vitamin D to work in the body. If you’re deficient in zinc, the vitamin D receptor won’t accept vitamin D. On the flip side, vitamin D allows zinc to be transported through the body.
Symptoms of zinc deficiency:
• Loss of taste or smell
• Low testosterone
• Diarrhea
• Alopecia
• Inflammatory skin problems
• Vision problems
• Ulcers
• Inflammation
• Poor immunity
• Thymus atrophy
Foods rich in zinc:
• Oysters
• Lobster
• Shrimp
• Liver
• Red meat
Causes of a zinc deficiency:
• Not consuming foods high in zinc
• Consuming phytates (in grains and legumes)
• Pregnancy
• Sickle cell anemia
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0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about a very fascinating relationship between vitamin D and zinc. |
0:06.0 | The majority of the population on this planet has a vitamin D deficiency, but what many |
0:10.6 | don't realize is that the importance of having enough zinc to allow |
0:14.4 | Vitamin D to work. Let's just pretend this is the receptor and you also have zinc. |
0:20.0 | So in order for this receptor to receive vitamin D, you need zinc. |
0:25.9 | Zinc is essential. If you have a deficiency of zinc, the vitamin |
0:30.4 | receptor will not accept vitamin D. So many people don't just have a vitamin D deficiency, |
0:35.4 | they also have a zinc deficiency. So let's just talk a little bit more about zinc. |
0:39.3 | Zinc is the second most abundant trace mineral on this planet. |
0:43.2 | And the first one is iron. |
0:44.8 | So zinc is really important not just for vitamin D, but for about 2,800 different |
0:50.0 | proteins. |
0:51.0 | And if you're deficient in zinc, you can pretty much predict the person is going to have a vitamin D deficiency. |
0:58.0 | And so if you're exhibiting certain vitamin D deficiencies, let's say for example your immune system is weak or you have |
1:03.8 | low back pain or you're depressed or you have high blood pressure and you're |
1:07.5 | taking vitamin D. Yet you really need zinc then vitamin D is just not going to work. |
1:14.0 | So what does a zinc deficiency look like? |
1:16.3 | Well, they can lose their taste or their smell. |
1:19.5 | They can have low testosterone. They can have problems with diarrhea. They can have problems |
1:25.6 | with alopecia where they lose their hair. They can have various inflammatory |
1:30.0 | problems with their skin. They can have vision problems, even develop an ulcer. |
1:35.6 | This is why zinc is really good for digestive ulcers as well as inflammation. |
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