Zinc In Your Body ~ Men's Health Medicine

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Friday, February 8, 2013

Zinc In Your Body

You can be hard on your body.

And the more active you are, the more stress your muscular skeletal system will be.

Zinc in your body play an important role in cell building and repair particularly after every strenuous activities.

Any act of exercising from running to weight training to even raking the lawn puts stress on your muscles.

On a cellular level, when we use your muscles, you literally break them down.

While at rest, your muscles will grow back, bigger and stronger.

Zinc is the key component during this process by providing proper structure to the cells and proteins and also helping you get the rest that the process requires.

When your muscles are at work, they expend considerable energy, leading to the production of free radicals.

Intense training can result in heavy sweating and with inadequate caloric intake will leads to insufficient levels of zinc.

Zinc also plays an important role as an antioxidant that is crucial in mitigating the adverse effects of free radicals.

During your rigorous fitness regimen monitor your zinc intake.

Make sure you maintain adequate zinc levels.

If you are out of breath or tired very easily during your ‘exercising activities’ you may be suffering from zinc deficiency.

Your heart had to work harder to complete these exercise routines.

In your body there is an enzyme called carbonic anhydrase, it is dependent on zinc.

Carbonic anhydrase enzyme is found in your red blood cells, gastric mucosa, pancreatic cells and renal tubules.

The main function of this enzyme is to maintain acid-base balance in your blood and other tissues by interconvert carbon dioxide and bicarbonate and also help transport carbon dioxide out of your body.

Carbonic anhydrase plays an important role in respiration and also functions in the formation of hydrochloric acid by your stomach.

Your body will reduce the function of this particular enzyme if you consume insufficient zinc that is less than the recommended daily amount.

The U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowance, or RDA, is the minimum amount of a nutrient needed by most people to stay healthy.

The RDA for zinc is 11 mg daily for men.

The U. S. Food and Nutrition Board have established the upper limits, or UL, of safe daily intake for most nutrients.

The UL for zinc is 40 mg per day.

Too much zinc can cause serious health problems.

Consider the daily amount of zinc already generated from your diet.

The side effects are minimal, when the zinc you consumed each day is within the normal limit.

Symptoms of toxicity from excessive zinc ingestion are,

* headaches

* nausea

* vomiting

* stomach cramps

* diarrhea

* and loss of appetite

Posted by: Mo Salle