The 7 Warning Signs of a Zinc Deficiency

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Zinc is the 3rd most important nutrient and is involved with over 200 different enzymes.

Zinc allows you to make glutathione, the most powerful antioxidant. It’s highly concentrated in the prostate and helps make sperm and testosterone. Zinc is in the part of the pancreas that produces insulin, and it is also in the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory. Zinc is vital for wound healing, decreasing gastritis, generating collagen, and hair regrowth.

Here are 7 common zinc deficiency symptoms:

1. Night blindness

2. Low testosterone, estrogen, or progesterone

3. Diarrhea

4. Acne

5. Alopecia

6. Cataracts

7. Thymus gland shrinkage

The thymus is the most important immune gland. It makes the T cells that control and coordinate every aspect of your immune system. T cells help to kill infection and cancer and help prevent autoimmune diseases.

Professor Greg Fahy has conducted fascinating research about the anti-aging possibilities that can occur when you restore the thymus gland. If you can regenerate the thymus gland, you may be able to increase your lifespan by decreasing the risk of cancer and infections.

In a rat study, a thymus from a younger rat was transplanted into an older rat. The rat experienced an increased lifespan and regrowth of the thymus. Rats given zinc had fully recovered thymus function and improved immune function.

Zinc deficiency can be caused by the following:

• Aging

• Gut issues

• Vegan/vegetarian diets

• Alcohol

• Sugar

• Chronic stress

• Medications

When you take zinc, you should also take copper. Thymus extract can also be beneficial to the thymus gland.

DATA:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8582782/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8582786/

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0:00.0	Today I want to discuss the seven warning signs of a zinc deficiency that has the potential to make your life a living hell.
0:07.4	Now we're going to go through all of these, but I will say number seven is the most deadly and it's the most common. The reason I'm doing a video on zinc
0:15.8	is because zinc is the third most important nutrient. Number one being vitamin D.
0:20.8	Why? Because vitamin D is involved in 2,500 genes. Number 2 is magnesium. Why? Because
0:27.3	it's involved in 300 different enzymes. And zinc is number 3 because it's involved with over 200 different enzymes.
0:34.8	That's a lot of biochemistry.
0:36.2	zinc allows you to make glutathion, which is the most powerful antioxidant.
0:40.1	zinc is highly concentrated in your prostate.
0:42.4	It helps you make sperm and testosterone.
0:45.2	Zinc is also in your pancreas, the specific part that makes insulin.
0:49.5	Zinc is even in your brain in a very specific part that is like a relay switch to your memories is called
0:57.1	a hippocampus. So when your hippocampus goes down you get dementia. Then you also have zinc's involvement in wound healing,
1:04.7	decreasing gastritis, helping you make collagen, and even helping you grow your hair. But now let's get
1:11.3	into the symptoms that can make your life a living
1:13.6	health. Night blindness is one big indication of a zinc deficiency and if you heard
1:17.3	drove at night when it's dark out and you can't see it's extremely scary and
1:22.1	dangerous.
1:22.6	All right, number two, low testosterone.
1:24.6	In fact, you can even get something called hypogonadism,
1:28.4	where your testicles are shrunk.
1:31.0	Now if you're female, you're going to notice your estrogen and progestrone are going to be a... are
1:33.4	shrunk. Now if you're female you're gonna notice your estrogen and progestrone are gonna be
	...

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