From eNewsletter 6/28/2023
DID YOU KNOW that zinc is the second most abundant trace element in the human body, exerting a critical role in many physiological processes such as cellular proliferation, transcription, apoptosis, growth, immunity, mood, blood sugar balance and wound healing? Zinc is essential for many enzymes and transcription factors, thus making it essential for the central nervous system. Synaptic zinc in the brain is necessary for neural transmission, playing a pivotal role in neurogenesis, cognition, memory, and learning. Data from a study in Nutrients suggest that zinc deficiency is associated with several central nervous system disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, depression, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, schizophrenia, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury.
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Steve Minsky MS, HWC As a Health and Wellness Counselor, Steve analyzes and offer solutions to optimize human functioning not only with food, but every aspect of your lifestyle, whether for prevention or healing. More info on Steve's services.
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Have a happy, healthy day! Steve and Bonnie Minsky
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WC Feature* Skin Health Update
Reactions to the Sun Vary
July & June 20% OFF Sale Items
Case Report
Chiro Corner NEW!
Pure Genomics
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Reactions to the Sun Vary
Steve: We were agog by anthropologists' Nina Jablonski and George Chaplin findings that over millennia, skin color has been shaped more by conflicting demands from folate and vitamin D than the strength of the sun's rays. Until now, we were unaware some folate is destroyed by the sun’s ultraviolent (UV) radiation. Whereas the skin kickstarts production of vitamin D after being exposed to those same rays. Hence, the balancing act: we must protect folate and produce vitamin D because both are essential for evolutionary fitness. So humans need a happy medium dosage of sun that satisfies both. While the intensity of UV rays is dictated by geography, the amount actually penetrating your skin depends on your degree of genetics, pigmentation, or skin color. It’s thought that dark skin is better at impeding the breakdown of folate because it contains higher amounts of melanin, a dark-brown pigment that absorbs UV rays and chemically disarms their harmful by-products. Vitamin D can be made in the skin, but only when the process is initiated by certain wavelengths of UV rays. Away from the tropics, for most of the year, there is not enough UV of the right wavelength for skin cells to form vitamin D. So, to get sufficient vitamin D year-round in high latitude places like Boston, people have to rely on body-stores built up during the summer months or acquire the nutrient through food and supplements. But the darker your skin, the harder it is to maintain adequate vitamin D. So what should we do with this information? The recommendation of 15 minutes per day of sun exposure without sunscreen when possible is ideal. Of course this is not possible for many of us because of where we live. Thus, testing our vitamin D3 levels, knowing our genetic variation, and supplementing properly is essential. For those living in a warm climate year-round, especially those with darker skin, and for all who have strong genetic mutations of the MTHFR folate genes, taking folate in activated form (in a multi or separately) would probably be a good recommendation. Genetic Note for Skin Aging If you want to know how to mitigate negative expression of your genetic mutations related to skin aging, look at your folate, detoxification, collagen, vitamin D, and IL-17 genes, all of which are in our Pure Genomics report.