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This is interesting, zinc has the ability to starve off deadly bacteria.

We're talking about streptococcus pneumonia.

This was published in the Journal of Nature, Chemical Biology.

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.

Usually when you're zinc deficient and you're going through stress.

When your immune system is compromised, when you're nutritionally deficient, when you're

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

This is wow, but this bacteria actually kills a million people a year from pneumonia and

meningitis, a million people.

You're going to find out, just with a little bit of zinc, it could be totally prevented.

What does zinc do to this bacteria?

This bacteria is dependent on another mineral called manganese, manganese allows for transportation.

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

The 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

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