{"id":409,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"about-trace-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"About Trace Minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Most important Trace Minerals<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255); \"><span style=\"font-size: small; \"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; \">Zinc<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">: <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/advances\/article\/10\/4\/696\/5476413\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Zinc<\/span><\/a> is involved in the synthesis and stabilization of <a href=\"?p=625\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">proteins<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"?p=600\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">DNA and RNA<\/span><\/a>, as well as in playing a structural role in <a href=\"?p=383\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">membranes<\/span><\/a>. Zinc also helps regulate <a href=\"?p=620\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">gene transcription<\/span><\/a> and is needed for sperm production and fetal growth. A mild deficiency could lead to diabetes, AIDS, inflammatory bowel disease, alcoholism, and other mal-absorption syndromes. Chronic deficiency can cause stunted growth in children, impaired immune function and night blindness. <a href=\"https:\/\/ods.od.nih.gov\/factsheets\/Zinc-HealthProfessional\/\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Oysters<\/span><\/a> have the highest amount of bio-available <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zinc\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">zinc<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255); \">Selenium<\/span>: Selenium is a component of several <a href=\"?p=627\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">enzymes<\/span><\/a>, most notably glutathione peroxidase. In conjunction with vitamin E, this enzyme appears to prevent <a href=\"?p=1074\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">oxidative and free radical damage<\/span><\/a> to various cell structures. Low levels of selenium in the blood accelerates coronary artery disease and cancers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255); \">Copper<\/span>: Copper plays a role in iron metabolism, melanin synthesis, <a href=\"?p=505\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">CNS<\/span><\/a> functioning, the synthesis of elastin (protein that keeps skin flexible), collagen and the scavenging of radicals. A deficiency may cause loss of pigmentation in the skin and hair, neurological disturbances, decreased numbers of white blood cells and anemia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2020%20pics\/White-blood-cell.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"196\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255); \">Chromium<\/span>: Chromium&rsquo;s primary function is to aid insulin action. It has an impact on carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism. Chromium-deficiency leads to hyperglycemia.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255); \">Iron<\/span>: <a href=\"?p=771\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Iron<\/span><\/a> participates in oxidation-reduction reactions (electron transfer between 2 interacting elements) within a number of proteins such as hemoglobin, myoglobin, and the cytochrome enzymes. Feeling tired is an early symptom of iron deficiency. In children, a mild deficiency is associated with behavioral disturbances and poor school performance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=410\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most important Trace Minerals Zinc: Zinc is involved in the synthesis and stabilization of proteins, DNA and RNA, as well as in playing a structural role in membranes. Zinc also helps regulate gene transcription and is needed for sperm production and fetal growth. A mild deficiency could lead to diabetes, AIDS, inflammatory bowel disease, alcoholism,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}