Zinc Controls Many Key Hormones

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you know zinc is a fascinating trace mineral  it’s involved in so many different biochemical reactions but today we’re going to talk about  the relationship between zinc and your hormones now zinc is involved in so many different  biochemical pathways but it’s majorly involved in quite a few of your hormones in fact it’s  involved in all of your major hormones let’s go through this first of all there’s two pituitary  hormones called follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone and they send signals down  to the gonads both the ovaries and the testicle so in men luteinizing hormone lh increases  testosterone so zinc increases testosterone if you’re zinc deficient your gonads actually  shrink you get what’s called hypogonadism so zinc will increase your testosterone now  there’s also another situation where you have testosterone turning into a very powerful form of  testosterone called dht through a very specific enzyme called 5-alpha reductase so if there’s  too much of this enzyme you get too much dht and one of the problems you get is you get hair  loss another problem is prostate enlargement so zinc helps act as an inhibitor of  five alpha reductase limiting the amount of dht you get now when a female follicle  stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone control estrogen and progesterone zinc will  help increase progesterone as well as estrogen unless you have estrogen dominance  which i’m going to get to in a second but so many women during menopause end up having a  major deficiency in progesterone and if they took a little zinc they would actually have more  progesterone they would have better ratios of progesterone to estrogen now if a woman is  menopausal she typically has a lot less estrogen and so zinc can help bring that up to a correct  level but you also have another enzyme that converts testosterone into estrogen it’s called  aromatase and if there’s too much of this hormone you’re going to get estrogen dominance now  this can happen in men and women and one of the things that will increase this enzyme  is plastics in the environment and it just so happens that a really good aromatase  inhibitor is zinc so zinc will help you from developing too much estrogen if you’re a male  or a female then we get to growth hormone which is the main fat-burning hormone it’s an anti-aging  hormone it has everything to do with regulating and helping you make new proteins in the body and  it just so happens in zinc supports normal growth hormone levels as well as another hormone that  is an extension of growth hormone which is made by your liver called igf number one then we get  to the thyroid in order for you to convert t4 the inactive form of the thyroid hormone to t3  which is the active form you need zinc you also need selenium and you also need iodine but  zinc is very important in this conversion also zinc is needed by the pituitary and the  thyroid to make more of its thyroid hormone and then lastly let’s talk about insulin  okay insulin is a very important hormone and it’s very important not to have too  much of this hormone so zinc helps increase insulin sensitivity as well as helps inhibit  insulin resistance thereby decreasing the amount of insulin so zinc is all about helping your blood  sugars helping regulate insulin levels zinc is intimately involved with so many key hormones so  if you’re enjoying my content which i hope you are and you’re applying this knowledge  to your health and you have a success i’d really appreciate you sharing your success  story so click the link down below to my website where you can upload your success  story so you can help inspire others