Zinc Deficiency

Your hair becomes thinner, your skin heals more slowly, your immune system staggers from one infection to the next. Perhaps you taste less, smell less, feel chronically exhausted. Medicine says: zinc deficiency — a trace element is missing. And that is true, on the biochemical level. Zinc is involved in over 300 enzymatic processes: immune defence, wound healing, cell growth, hormone synthesis. When it is lacking, much falls out of balance.

But BodySignal asks deeper: why does your body not absorb the zinc — or why does it consume it so quickly that the reserves never fill up? What is happening in your inner life that prepares the ground for this deficiency? For the psychosomatic perspective sees in zinc deficiency not merely a deficit on a lab report. It sees a pattern — a pattern of distrust toward one's own feelings and the flight into what can be controlled.