Zinc is an important element to the body, yet researchers have long struggled with how it actually moves through the body to spread nutrients. Thanks to research methods using x-ray crystallography, which create colorful images, they have found that a protein known as serum albumin carries zinc through the bloodstream. This serum albumin is the key to zinc transport.
Key Takeaways:
- Zinc is essential for wound healing, for vision, for DNA creation, for our senses of taste and smell, even for sexual health.
- Researchers have, for the first time, created detailed blueprints of the molecular moving vans that ferry this important mineral everywhere it’s needed through the blood.
- Zinc is carried through the body by a protein known as serum albumin.
“Researchers have, for the first time, created detailed blueprints of the molecular moving vans that ferry this important mineral everywhere it’s needed through the blood.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161103124350.htm