This is interesting zinc has the ability to starve off deadly bacteria we're talking about streptococcus pneumonia.
Studies on ZINC and bacteria:
Streptococcus pneumonia and this was published in the journal of nature chemical biology ,now normally this bacteria streptococcus pneumonia lives a part of our friendly bacteria as a normal bacteria ,it's not pathogenic unless certain conditions occur but it lives in our sinuses ,it lives in our throat and it's perfectly friendly until it becomes pathogenic especially when you're zinc deficient and you're going through stress so when your immune system is compromised when you're nutritionally deficient when you're stressed out when you have hiv tha t's when this microbe flips over to become pathogenic and this is wild but this bacteria actually kills a million people a year from pneumonia and meningitis a million people and you're going to find out just with a little bit of zinc it could be totally prevented
How zinc affects bacteria
Now what does zinc do to this bacteria?
well this bacteria is dependent on another mineral called manganese manganese allows for transportation ,it's dependent on this little transporter like a little car .
So zinc goes in there and locks up the key so manganese cannot get in there anymore making this transporter unavailable for this bacteria not to mention other things that zinc will do to bacteria ,but this is a very powerful one so it's very very important that people get enough zinc in their diet. A zinc deficiency is probably one of the top nutritional deficiencies on this planet primarily ,because of how much cereal that we consume because grains have phytic acid that block zinc ,so you would want to avoid things with phytic acid
Sources of zinc
To get zinc you need >>>
• Red meat
• Shellfish
• Fish
• Low grain consumption
• A healthy gut
if you're a vegan chances are you're going to be deficient in zinc due to the quantities of phytic acid .
Now if you also have gut inflammation or any type of gut issues you're going to have a difficult time absorbing zinc and so it's just amazing to me of how this trace mineral needed in very trace amounts very small amounts can create so much health and can prevent so much destruction .
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