Zinc is an essential mineral that is a component of more than 300 enzymes. Forms of Zinc: Zinc Picolinate, Acetate, Citrate, Glycerate and Monomethionine. Component of insulin.
What Health Benefits do I Offer?
Required for blood sugar control.
Needed for proper taste and hearing.
Important in wound healing and enzyme activation.
Acts as a immune system booster.
Administers the contractibility of muscles.
Aids in prevention and less severity duration of colds, flus, and infections.
Helps prevent macular degeneration.
Contributes to healthy male reproductive system.
Helps prevent the onset of cataracts.
Helps enhance fertility in both men and women.
Important for blood stabilization.
Governs metabolism of testosterone and sex drive.
Helps decrease cholesterol deposits.
Aids digestion problems.
Regulates the activity of oil glands.
Promotes healthy hair and scalp.
Shown to be important in brain function.
Supports healthy fingernails and gets rid of white spots on your nails.
May deter the aging process.
What Food Sources am I Found In?
Oysters, seafood, meat, liver, beef, turkey ham, pork, chicken, crab, lamb, eggs, chedar cheese, milk, and American cheese, black-eyed peas, tofu, wheat germ, dried beans, split peas, pecans, cashews, fortified cereals, brown rice, white rice, oatmeal, bran flakes, sunflower seeds, and peanut butter.
How Much Should I Have?
RDA: 15 mg. Many professionals recommend 30 mg a day.
What if I Don't Get Enough?
You become more susceptable to: Zinc deficiency associated congenital birth defects; acne, acrodermatitis enteropathica, alopecia (hair loss), anemia, anorexia and/or butimia, apathy, birth defects bad body odors, brittle nails, depression, diarrhea, enlarged prostate, eczema, fatigue, high infant mortality, hypercholesterolemia, hypogewusia (loss of sense of taste), infertility, impaired wound healing, impotence, irritability, lethargy, loss of sense of smell, malabsorption, memory loss, paranoia, pica (eating hair, wool, etc.), poor growth (short stature), sexual immaturity (remain in pre- puberty state), small and/or poor ovary and testes function, sterility, weaken immune function, and white spots on nails.
Stuff I Should Know
Zinc can reduce the body's ability to utilize copper. Zinc lozenges have been known to have reduced the duration of colds in adults. People over age 65 have a greater risk of deficiency due to a reduced ability to absorb zinc.
Genesis 1:29 "And God said,
'Behold I have given every herb-bearing seed which is
upon the face of all the earth and every tree, in
which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed: to you it
shall be for meat'."
