Description
Zinc Orotate — a shield against many kinds of tissue damage: to skin, eyes, heart, liver, brain…
Zinc orotate is a mineral salt that is normally found in the body in
small amounts. Each molecule of zinc orotate consists
of two molecules of orotic acid and one zinc atom — the zinc
atom replaces a pair of hydrogen atoms (one from each orotic
acid molecule).
Zinc is an essential element required by all living things.
Every organ and tissue in the body contains and requires zinc.
It plays roles in development, tissue growth, and in all major
bodily functions. Several thousand kinds of proteins in the
body contain zinc — some of these proteins are enzymes that use
zinc atoms to catalyze biochemical reactions, others have
structural roles. ‘Zinc finger’ proteins regulate gene
expression, and zinc atoms play a role in gene-directed cell death
(‘apoptosis’) which is a major regulatory process in growth and
development, and in cancer and other diseases. Zinc also affects
the way cells signal each other — it has been found to
influence hormone release and the transmission of information along
nerves.
Zinc’s antioxidant properties help to explain some of its
effects on the body: protecting the skin from UV light, improving
wound healing, and decreasing the relative risk of cancer and
cardiovascular disease. Zinc is an essential component of the
enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD) — one of the major antioxidant tools the body uses to neutralize destructive oxygen ions.
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