Zinc is an inorganic cofactor in over 300 enzymatic processes throughout your body. It partners with B vitamins to convert inactive substances into active forms, influencing everything from immunity to metabolism.
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Other things that zinc is involved in in the body is it is part of over 300 different enzymatic processes. Now enzymes are used as a way to take something from a preform and turn it usually into its active form. So the enzyme is sort of in the middle. Now an enzyme usually will use an organic and an inorganic cofactor to come together. And the way it's going to do this is that you're going to have the organic cofactor, which is usually like a B vitamin or something similar, and then the inorganic one is going to be a mineral like zinc. So zinc is involved in 300 different types of these enzymatic actions, so it works all over your body essentially.