Dr. Mindy here and I want to talk to you tonight about Zinc last week if
you've been following me at all last week I talked all about magnesium I gave
you what types of magnesium you should be taking I talked about what a
magnesium deficiency does to your brain and if you're on my email list I sent
you out all my favorite magnesium products and all the articles
I've been researching are magnesium so hopefully you're experts on magnesium
and what I want people to understand is that there are some really simple things
you can add into your diet to get this thing working better and last week of
course it was magnesium today it's zinc and one of the things that we're finding
right now in our society is that our soils are so depleted so even if you're
amazing with your health even if you're eating tons of fruits and vegetables
there's a very good chance that you are deficient in one of these minerals that
I'm going to go through over the next several weeks so magnesium is the
mineral that calms your brain so think anxiety epilepsy spasm muscles those are
all excitatory situations where magnesium will comment with zinc I want
you to think almost the opposite it actually lifts your brain so zinc is one
of the major nutrients needed to make serotonin and dopamine serotonin and
dopamine are the two neurotransmitters you need to be happy so if you're
deficient in zinc you're not your body's not going to make enough serotonin and
dopamine what this might look like to you is a depression which is probably
one of the first things to think about if you're chronically depressed you want
to get yourself on a zinc supplement I also if you have some anxiety with that
depression I recommend a magnesium supplement but you want to think what so
depressions that was one the other thing is you're just not perceiving
happiness with the same kind of excitement that you did years ago well
that might be that your body's just not making enough serotonin or enough
dopamine so it can be as simple as add some zinc in and all of a sudden your
happiness levels go up but zinc is also doing a few other key things so Zinc
helps your pancreas make enzymes to break down carbohydrates so I got a lot
of researchers that are watching this video and you can't get your blood sugar
down no matter what you do that might be a zinc deficiency so just adding in zinc
and now your blood sugar goes down and your ketones go up it can be as simple
as that so we're also seeing that zinc is a
major is massively necessary for making testosterone and so with infertility
especially male infertility it could be a zinc deficiency I had a patient today
that came in and has been taking our men's supplement for a while and really
noticed a difference in her hair not only the fullness but the softness and
that is because when you add minerals back in one of the major things you'll
find is that hair loss is coming from a mineral deficiency specifically a zinc
one so how do you get us a zinc deficiency I think this is a really
important question to know and with all my mineral videos you're going to see
that it's pretty similar but excess sweating I talked about my son last week
and the increase in his workouts caused a magnesium deficiency excess sweating
you know you're working out a lot that can cause some some zinc deficiency as
well but then there's some things like alcohol caffeine standard American diet
bad oils processed foods all of that is depleting zinc and believe it or not
many of the medications you are are on are depleting zinc as well so this is a
really really important mineral to add into your diet so how do you add it in I
think that's probably the most helpful thing I can teach you today and the
number one source for adding minerals in actually comes from beef and from lamb
or adding zinc so many vegetarians and I you know
applaud the vegetarian lifestyle I was a vegetarian for over a decade until I
realized that my body really thrived on meat and a part of it was that I was the
lack of meat was depleting my minerals and causing me poor health
so sometimes vegetarians unfortunately can be low in zinc if you will have a
vegetarian lifestyle you may just decide right off the bat you're gonna add some
some minerals in it would be make perfect sense remember again this what I
hear from vegetarians is well I've been eating a lot of vegetables but our soils
are depleted so that you're not getting the nutrients the minerals out of the
soils so even a lot of vegetables isn't always secure but beef and lamb is
the number one source of zinc oysters and sardines which is tough because that
can be toxic our oceans are toxic but ours are actually the mud the densest
way the the most concentration of zinc in an oyster out of any food so oyster
SAR an option sardines herring or an option and then of course seems so
pumpkin and sesame are the highest in zinc you really for absorption want to
get sprouted seeds you don't want to necessarily run into 7-eleven and look
at a bag of pumpkin seeds and think that that's going to increase help with your
depression probably not going to work so you really want to look at how do you
get these sprouted and then of course supplementation I just can't emphasize
enough how most of us are gonna have to supplement so that think it's serotonin
and dopamine these neurotransmitters that make you so happy you got to have
zinc to do it breaking down carbohydrates you've got to have zinc to
do that so how do you know if you have a zinc deficiency or not there's a really
easy test in fact we're putting together a mineral
test kit where you guys can test all of these minerals really cheap price and
you can find out we actually ran the tests on my staff last week and we found
out that the majority of my staff actually didn't have a bank
deficiency many of them had a chromium deficiency and you can do that all
through a mineral test that we've created it's a home kit that will send
to you if you're interested in my mineral test just put mineral test and
we're putting it together now so it give us a week or two and we have where it
will send that test to you and send you information on it but testing always is
the most definitive way otherwise you're wasting your money right like like my
staff we're all shocked how many of them were good at magnesium so they didn't
would they don't need to supplement the supplement with magnesium and that
happened so much with people when their testing is that are with when they're
taking supplements they just start taking it they have no idea why they're
taking it and they don't know they don't have any pre and post-tests to know if
the supplements working you know they do that in the medical world really well
they give you a they find you have high blood pressure they give you some
medication and then they retest you to make sure it's working so we're doing
that with nutrition and here in the office so if you want to know more about
our mineral test as put mineral test in there but zinc zinc for depression
really important that you start to look at your minerals if you have any kind of
chronic depression or anxiety and start eating more beef more oysters more
sardines get not into your diet with pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds and avoid
these guys right here except for excess sweating I'm a big fan of exercise but
know that if you're a massive exercise you're gonna need to add those in okay
hope that helps have an awesome day