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This is interesting. Zinc has the ability to starve off deadly bacteria. We're talking about

Streptococcus pneumonia. And this was published in the Journal of Nature Chemical Biology.

Now, normally this bacteria, Streptococcus pneumonia,

lives a part of our friendly bacteria

as a normal bacteria.

It's not pathogenic unless certain conditions occur,

but it lives in our sinuses, it lives in our throat, and it's perfectly

friendly until it becomes pathogenic, especially when you're zinc deficient and you're going

through stress. So when your immune system is compromised, when you're a nutritionally deficient,

when you're stressed out, when you have HIV, that's when this microbe flips over to become pathogenic.

And this is wow, but this bacteria actually kills a million people a year

from pneumonia and meningitis.

A million people.

And you're going to find out just with a little bit of zinc,

it could be totally prevented. Okay. Now what does zinc do to this bacteria? Well, this bacteria

is dependent on another mineral called manganese. Monese allows for transportation.

It's dependent on this little transporter, like a little car.

So zinc goes in there and locks up the key

so manganese cannot get in there anymore,

making this transporter unavailable for this bacteria.

Not to mention other things that zinc will do to bacteria, but this is a very powerful one.

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