ZINC AND COVID 19
Healthy Lifestyle starts with a healthy life! Understand the viruses, illnesses that bring us down and slows our lovely healthy lifestyle. Boost your immune regularly, eat well, exercise, avoid illnesses and enjoy your most rewar ding lifestyle..... Zinc provides immune support amongst other functions. However, for zinc to work effectively in the body to boost immune system function, zinc has to be pushed into the cells which would require an ionophore. An ionophore is a substance that transports particles across the cell wall barrier into the center of the cell. Ionophores are fat-soluble molecules that bind to ions to help move them across cell membranes. Without the right ionophore, elemental zinc is poorly absorbed and will remain stuck in the bloodstream where it cannot be used by the body’s cells. Many substances can act as ionophores for zinc, one being the antioxidant quercetin. Thus, taking quercetin along with zinc may provide additional benefits to an immune-...