Zinc Can Help Lower Cortisol
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
If you’re trying to lower your cortisol, don’t forget about zinc!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. |
| 0:12.0 | Doctor Eric Burg. |
| 0:14.0 | Let's talk about zinc's influence over cortisol. |
| 0:18.0 | Zinc is a trace mineral. I've done a lot of videos on it. |
| 0:21.0 | But it has a huge influence over something called the HPA axis. |
| 0:26.0 | Hypothalamus, which is in the brain, pituitary, and then we have the adrenal. |
| 0:30.0 | So we have this whole feedback loop going on. |
| 0:33.0 | So the adrenals are controlled by the hypothalamus through the pituitary's help. |
| 0:38.0 | And zinc supports this whole pathway. |
| 0:42.0 | So when you take zinc, you actually have the ability to lower cortisol. |
| 0:47.0 | Zinc also increases gava, which is very calming. |
| 0:50.0 | So when you take zinc, it calms you down. |
| 0:53.0 | Here's another problem with lower zinc. |
| 0:55.0 | When you're low in zinc, you're automatically going to be a little bit higher and copper |
| 0:59.0 | because they work together. |
| 1:01.0 | When you have this ratio right here, it's not good because then you start getting copper toxicity |
| 1:07.0 | or copper overload. |
| 1:09.0 | And you get anxiety, depression, higher levels of cortisol, |
| 1:14.0 | and it puts your body in a stress mode. |
| 1:17.0 | So you're in flight or fight. |
| 1:19.0 | The other point I want to make is if you have an hidden infection in your body, |
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