Hi, this is Leda Lum's Apotheca, and today
I'm gonna talk about zinc picolinate and its
importance for your immune health and your
skin, especially if you 
have acne.
Hi, boys and girls.
Okay, so today I have a cold, and that's why
I sound funny.
I got a cold.
I feel like I'm invincible, but I got cold
from my friend's kid.
And I got some zinc picolinate from Thorne
Research because it was out of this zinc picolinate,
which I stopped taking.
My boyfriend was like, "Get some zinc picolinate."
Because he takes a lot of it.
It's great for men's health, for your prostate.
It's good for hormones, for everybody.
But, anyway, so let's go through the benefits
of zinc.
And the reason why you want to get zinc picolinate
is because it's chelated with picolinic acid,
which helps your receptors receive the zinc,
so you wanna make sure it's zinc picolinate.
All right, so zinc deficiency, warnings are
your immune is compromised.
You get a cold, you have chronic allergies
or you get sick easily.
Leaky gut, if you have any food allergies
or adrenal fatigue, thyroid issues, malabsorption
issues.
If you have any diarrhea or irritable bowel
syndrome, that could be a sign of deficiency.
Thinning hair, or if you're losing hair.
Zinc is great for helping with thick, full,
supplementing hair growth.As well as if you
have, I have fake nails on, but if you have
nail little white spots or ridges on your
nails, that can be a sign of zinc deficiency.
It's not a calcium deposit.
It's a zinc deficiency.
Yeah.
So supplement with zinc, especially if you
have acne, or any inflammational skin issues,
like psoriasis, or eczema or contact dermatitis
or acne, like cystic hormonal acne.
That's a sign of skin deficiency, and a lot
of people experience...
There's a bunch of YouTube videos of these
girls that are having miraculous acne-mending
after a week.
After supplementing with zinc picolinate,
they have beautiful skin in a week, which
is great.
So get yourself some, especially if you have
any skin issues.
But it's also good for any mending of your
skin, for aging skin, or for wound healing.
It's important for your body for any sort
of mending of your skin.
So you can supplement with zinc.
You wanna get your nutrients from food primarily,
so some foods rich in zinc are pumpkin seeds,
oysters, grass-fed beef, sprouted seeds, any
sort of seeds you can sprout.
Sprouting grains and seeds helps release the
phytic acid that's in grains and seeds that
prevents your body from absorbing zinc.
So another way you could do it is by soaking
your grains or your seeds at about 140 degrees.
I think that's low heat really.
That helps release the phytic acid by up to
half, 50%, and that will help your body absorb
more of the zinc.
Okay?
It's great for healthy skin, helping your
immune system.
You also wanna get your probiotics, which
will help you absorb zinc and other nutrients.
Another possible way of being deficient in
zinc is if you are a mega exerciser, if you
do CrossFit or your triathlons, you can maybe
be deficient in zinc if you're overexercising,
or very exercising.
I don't know...
This is critical for repair of the body, repairing
your muscles.
It's mainly for your muscles and your bones.
Also, if you're breastfeeding or pregnant,
you can be deficient.
Makes sense, you're growing a person.
Zinc is very important for your body's creation
of hormones, so it helps hormonally balance
you as well.
So if you have a lot of PMS or painful menstruation,
zinc is good for you as well.
And if you're a male, zinc is really important
for the prostate, and your sex organs.
If you're ejaculating a lot, for instance,
you want to supplement with zinc because that
is a release of zinc.
It helps with your connective tissues.
It's good for your prostates.
It builds your defense for your immune system.
It's great for skin.
If you have acne skin, supplement with zinc.
As soon as I started feeling sick, I went
straight to supplement with my zinc picolinate.
There was a panel of people, a study with
various people taking different forms of zinc.
Zinc Gluconate and few other zincs, but zinc
picolinate had the highest amount of zinc
found in the serum, your blood.
So it's absorbed most easily into your body,
so get zinc picolinate.
I suddenly started feeling better, since I
got some zinc, from this cold.
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