What is best zinc
6 Ways to Know You Need MORE Zinc
why does everyone forget zinc everyone's
so focused on potassium and magnesium
and man I'll tell you zinc is one of the
most important minerals if not the most
important when it comes down to just
cellular function it is one of the most
prevalent minerals in the body but we
don't have a storage system for it so
what that means is that we end up having
to constantly replenish our zinc level
so it's very easy to become deficient in
zinc and it can cause a cascade of
different problems now what it does do
is manifest with some pretty clear ways
so we'll explain those deficiencies and
all that so that you know if maybe you
need to start adding some zinc and also
talk about some foods that are gonna be
rich in zinc and how much zinc you might
want to be getting in alright so we're
gonna talk all about that but first I
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first of all why zinc is so unique it
promotes thousands and thousands of
transcription factors and enzymatic
functions within the body okay now most
of the time minerals are involved in
some or part of these transcription
factors now what that means is basically
the creation of new cells and things
like that now normally magnesium is
involved in a few then you got potassium
involved in a few well
zinc is involved in all six enzymatic
classes so what that means is that every
kind of enzyme function in your body
whether it's breaking down food or
whether it's breaking down certain
cellular functions or whether it's
triggering the growth of new cells and
things like that different enzymatic
functions zinc is involved in all of
them and in case you don't understand
the magnitude of that we cannot function
without enzymatic functions happening at
some point so they're involved in
ligases lies as hydrolases isomerizes
oxido reductase and transferases which
has to do with even genetics right
actually like changing our DNA and
changing things like that that's very
important what I said earlier no ability
to store zinc we don't have this a
storage mechanism for zinc so what we
have in our body in our blood or in our
cells at a given time is what we have
it's why it's very important to
replenish your zinc levels every day
whether it's through supplementation or
through good food okay if you go and you
get a blood test and you find that your
zinc
levels are high or low it's not
necessarily going to reflect anything
that matters because it doesn't tell you
what is being utilized by the cell at
that point in time you say if your zinc
levels are high it in your blood it
doesn't necessarily mean that your cells
are utilizing that sink and then you
actually have good amounts of zinc in
your body so it's always good to
replenish sink now the caveat being if
you take in too much zinc can you go
overboard it depletes and cancels out
copper that's when things get wild with
minerals start taking in too much zinc
it actually cancels out some of the
copper which creates its own signs and
its own symptoms which we'll talk about
in another video but let's talk about
some telltale things because otherwise
we're gonna sit in lala land where it's
super complicated alright the first
symptom that I want to talk about this
is kind of an order of what you might
see manifesting the first symptom is
going to be hair loss okay here's what's
going on hair cells and hair follicles
in that whole process they turn over
really fast so whenever you have
something that's turning over fast
you're having a big demand in zinc
because zinc is required in that
turnover creating new cells new means
ematic function so anything that turns
over really fast he's going to burn
through zinc like crazy so what's
happening is when your zinc depleted
your hair starts to fall out or starts
to thin simply because you have other
cells that require zinc that turn over
fast let me put it like this hair cells
regenerate fast immune cells regenerate
fast intestinal cells regenerate fast
but hair is not a priority so what ends
up happening is the zinc deficiency
makes it so that your body prioritizes
the immune cells and the intestinal
cells and says okay we have to shuttle
zinc away from the hair and put it to
the immune cells because that's where
they're needed so as a result you start
losing your hair so if you're you know
brushing your hair in the morning just
having clumps of hair coming out not
even clumps you just notice it's
thinning and coming out
zinc could be an issue in just a little
bit of supplemental zinc could fix that
or adding some oysters or some shellfish
in your diet could make a big difference
there which kind of leads me into the
next thing maybe if you don't like
oysters or shellfish you want your
tastes to go away but in this particular
case this is a symptom of zinc
deficiency so same kind of thing with
our taste buds our taste buds have a
short half-life believe it or not our
taste changes every one two weeks so
what happens is your taste buds the
cells in there die
and they go through a kind of new
recycling process every one to two weeks
which explains why if you eat spicy
foods for about a week you get used to
it okay you develop a sweet tooth or a
salt tooth or a spicy affinity just an
amount of weeks time but the same kind
of thing happens here if you're
deficient in zinc your body's
reprioritizing and sacrificing for the
greater good of the rest of your body
your immune cells and you know your
intestinal cells and things like that so
it's taking zinc away from the cells and
your taste buds and moving them to other
more important places so these two
although are critical for most life
they're not super critical compared to
immune cells and intestinal cells so
that's where we really have to start
paying attention these are the first
warning signs and I want to stop right
there because you might be wondering
where you can get zinc in food like you
might be looking at this thing okay well
this is great I already have these
symptoms where can I get some food so
okay we've got things like oysters okay
we've got other shellfish those are
always going to be a good sign you've
got some things like seaweed and they're
gonna have levels of zinc anything kind
of marine base is going to have a good
amount of zinc
there's a lot of vegetables that have
zinc but unfortunately a lot of times
our soil is so deprived of the minerals
we're not actually getting that amount
so what I've done is I've created some
grocery packages through thrive market
thrive markets an online grocery store
so you can get your groceries online not
to go to the grocery store this gets
shipped right to your doorstep I've
created specific packages for Quito for
fasting for thyroid for hormones
everything like that so you can get
groceries that I would recommend all
bundled into a simple box it's like hey
this is what Thomas de Lauer would get
for minerals for thyroid health for
hormone health etc etc so there's a link
down below in the description that way
you can check them out and they also
utilize wild planet which is a really
good canned fish and Kansas shellfish
source so a good way for you to be able
to get your oysters in if you like them
stuff like that so you know link down
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after you watch the rest of this video
all right now let's go ahead and talk
about the next one which is going to be
muscle loss and weight loss you might be
wondering I want to lose weight well
you're gonna probably lose the wrong
kind of weight if you're having a hard
time putting on muscle where you feel
like you're just atrophying and losing a
lot of muscle same kind of thing okay
comes down to the intestinal cells at
this point zinc deficiency is starting
to affect the intestinal cells so it's
prioritizing the immune cells and it's
getting rid of the intestinal cell
turnover because you're deficient in
zinc which means
that now you have a leaky gut so you
have more inflammation but you also have
cells that aren't functioning as well
which means they're not able to absorb
nutrients as well which means you lose
the good kind of weight you lose the
weight that you shouldn't be losing the
weight that you should be keeping on
because your body's deprived of
nutrients so if you feel like what the
heck I'm doing everything I can I'm
losing my hair my taste is is lame right
now and I'm losing muscle you're
probably dealing with a zinc deficiency
okay then we get into illnesses as we've
gone down the line okay you're kind of
seeing the pattern here right you've
seen the chain reaction it cells that
turn over fast in areas of the body that
require fast cell turnover are going to
end up seeing the result of a zinc
deficiency much faster so if you cannot
create new immune cells your immune
system suffers plain and simple next up
we have diarrhea the thing is there's
not a whole lot of understanding as to
why people that are zinc deficient can
get diarrhea so much now the issue is
once the diarrhea starts then you're
losing more minerals so then you lose
more zinc and then you really have to
replenish it and everyone talks about
replenishing sodium potassium magnesium
but no one's talking about replenishing
zinc which is one of the most important
ones to replenish okay now I have my own
hypothesis I think that what's happening
is it's a bacterial thing and I think
it's a chelation thing so what that
means is you're probably having diarrhea
because you have excess of one
particular mineral probably too much
iron that's chelating excess minerals in
the body and in the gut and it's causing
oxidation which is making you feel sick
now the point is there is you can reduce
your iron levels but that's pretty hard
to do the best way to reduce your iron
levels a long story short is to actually
add magnesium into the mix alongside
zinc but that's complicating I have
other videos on that we don't need to
worry about it right now okay last but
not least libido and testosterone zinc
is so critical for testosterone
production there's a lot of reasons why
but I want to reference one particular
study was published in the journal
nutrition back in 1996 took a look at
test subjects and it had them go on
diets that were low in zinc so basically
they slowly made them limit their zinc
intake whether it be through they were
supplementing before and now they're not
or they're just limiting zinc foods
pretty wild okay so they found that they
had a progressive decrease in serum
testosterone levels as they decreases in
fact after two months they had half the
attest Ostrom level they had before
after five months they had a
order the testosterone level they had
before okay just by limiting their zinc
intake okay so it crushed their
testosterone and crushed their libido
then with some older populations they
did another test where they supplemented
a little bit of zinc and they found that
it doubled their testosterone in just
six months by adding zinc really
powerful stuff so how much does think
should you be getting in per day okay so
recommend a daily allowance is like 10
milligrams that's really not that much I
would say you could go up to 40 before
you start to have some kind of issue
with potential copper cancelling out
I honestly think you could go higher
than that and it all depends on how
higher testosterone levels are how much
cellular turnover you have if you're
working out a whole lot you're breaking
down cells a lot which means that you
might be breaking down or requiring more
zinc for that cell turnover every time
that you're putting your body and high
demand for anything you're gonna turn
over more zinc okay so it's like you're
eating a lot then of course you're going
to have a lot of intestinal cell
turnover
you just have to increase your zinc
whenever you can feel that your body has
to increase cellular toner up turnover
when you're sick okay when you're
working out a lot things like that so I
hope that this helps you out okay so you
can get the zinc rich foods in you can
supplement some zinc at 10 to 20
milligrams per day and you can pay
attention to make sure that these
symptoms aren't getting too bad in your
own body so you know when you can start
implementing more zinc so as always
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