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You know, Zika is a fascinating trace moral.

It's involved in so many different biochemical reactions, but today we're going to talk

about the relationship between zinc and your hormones.

Now, zinc is involved in so many different biochemical pathways, but it's majorly involved

in quite a few of your hormones.

In fact, it's involved in all of your major hormones.

Let's go through this.

First of all, there's two pituitary hormones, called follicule stimulating hormone and

elutinizing hormone.

And they send signals down to the gonads, both the ovaries and the testicle.

Also in men, elutinizing hormone, LH, increases testosterone.

So zinc increases testosterone.

If you're zinc deficient, your gonads actually shrink.

You get what's called hypogonadism.

So zinc will increase your testosterone.

Now there's also another situation where you have testosterone turning into a very powerful

form of testosterone called DHT.

You're a very specific enzyme called five alpha reductase.

So if there's too much of this enzyme, you get too much DHT.

And one of the problems you get is you get hair loss.

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