so the highest zinc food in the world is oysters that's number one oysters are loaded with zinc and the type of zinc that's bile available then we get red meat okay then we get fish and the list goes down from there there is a small amount of zinc in pumpkin seeds for example and there are a few other things but here's the problem with zinc there is no storage system in our body for zinc so if we're not getting it from the diet we are going to be deficient 25 of the planet is deficient in
zinc and it's very difficult to determine if you're deficient other than symptoms because when you do a blood test it's not detectable even though you're very deficient it's only detectable after a long-term deficiency or a severe depletion but let's talk about the consequence of not having enough zinc in the body first of all you're going to have decreased amount of lymphocytes it's your white blood cells so you're going to have a hard time fighting off infection and pathogens if it's very severe you may get in a large spleen get a decreased response to pathogens so
not only do you have decreased numbers of white blood cells but your response to pathogens is sluggish so you can't fight infection as well as you did when you had enough zinc the thymus the training camp for the white blood cells gets smaller next one is increased susceptibility to an infection so you're more susceptible to getting sick so whereas one person would not necessarily get the infection you might get it next one is loss of taste and smell next one is decrease wound healing and decrease testosterone and because zinc is an anti-inflammatory you lose your
ability to get rid of inflammation so you have more inflammation there are a couple other reasons why people are deficient in zinc a big one is phytates phytates are in fiber they're in whole grains so when you consume flour products breads pasta cereal crackers rice alone with phytates it's in the bran it's a fiber and phytates block zinc okay so that's number one number two stress will deplete your zinc high levels of cortisol over a period of time will deplete your zinc sugar as in not just sugar but high fructose corn syrup and honey and
all the other types of sweeteners also coming right down here diabetes which is a condition where you have high sugar will also deplete zinc so these two are very similar the longer you have an infection the less zinc you're going to have in your body and you need zinc for these things right here and acids will deplete you of zinc you need an acidic stomach to absorb zinc so as you get older you lose the stomach acid you can no longer pull zinc in like you did before malabsorption if you have gut damage you're going
to have a hard time absorbing zinc if you have liver damage even a fatty liver even in a liver that's inflamed even a liver that has scar tissue you're not going to be able to absorb zinc and so many people have a fatty liver and they don't even know it if you're a vegan it's going to be a lot more difficult to get zinc because you're consuming things that are pulling it out and you're not consuming animal products so you're not going to get the bio-available zinc that you need so anyway i just want to
increase the awareness of zinc and the importance of getting enough zinc in your diet hey we're back with another amazing recipe no grains no sugar totally keto there's no suffering in keto absolutely not karen and it's an immune system builder absolutely you have to check this out i think you should hurry up watch the recipe and make it yourself it's just so easy to be keto but is it simple it's super simple we hope you enjoy making it as much as we are enjoying eating it
