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there’s one really important nutrient

involved with

hypothyroidism that you need to know

about now this also relates to a

hyperthyroidism too so if you have any

problems with your thyroid this video is

going to be very very important now the

first thing to know is that 90 percent

of all hypothyroid problems is an

autoimmune disease called Hashimoto’s in

most cases of hyperthyroidism is also an

autoimmune condition what is an

autoimmune condition it’s a situation

where you have

cells made by your own body okay there

are very specific types of

anti-bodies against the body little

cells that actually attack your thyroid

so you have these cells that are

programmed to think that your thyroid is

like a pathogen so these antibodies

attack your thyroid and prevent it from

functioning and they create a constant

inflammatory condition as well and

ninety percent of all hypothyroid cases

are autoimmune now let’s talk about this

one nutrient that’s really important you

probably thought it would be iodine

it’s not items very very important

because without iodine you can’t make

thyroid hormones but selenium selenium

is really important and you’re going to

understand why in a minute because most

of the selenium in your body is mostly

concentrated in your thyroid if you go

by the weight of that tissue and if you

have a hypothyroid condition chances are

you’re probably deficient in selenium

it’s very very common to have a

deficiency and when you get diagnosed

with this autoimmune disease okay the

three main antibodies that they find a

problem with involves one that’s called

thyroid peroxidase so these antibodies

to thyroid peroxidase really uh inhibits

your ability to make thyroid hormones

because one of the functions of thyroid

peroxidase is the production the

synthesis of thyroid hormones and so you

can just imagine by blocking that you’re

not going to make enough thyroid

hormones thus having a lowered amount of

thyroid hormones that’s called

hypothyroidism and then there’s another

one okay that involves the receptor for

thyroid stimulating hormone that’s that

hormone from the pituitary that’s sent

down to the blood that connects to the

thyroid and tells the thyroid to make

thyroid hormones and that receptor is

called thyroglobulin receptor so if you

have antibodies against that receptor

you’re not able to receive the message

that tells the thyroid to make thyroid

hormones so you can imagine what kind of

problems you’re going to have if you

have antibodies to these three parts but

the good news is that selenium can help

significantly reduce these antibodies

and it’s something natural that you can

take and it’s in your food but you can

take it in small amounts to help you

also selenium improves the thyroid as a

whole okay

so that’s another benefit selenium also

helps you convert T4 to T3 T3 is the

active form T4 is not so T4 really

doesn’t do much in your body unless it’s

converted with the help of selenium I

mean think about this let’s say for

example

you don’t have enough selenium and

you’re taking Synthroid for example

which is T4 synthetic T4

and your problem is you can’t convert it

to the active form

you’re not going to see much change you

might have normal T4 in your blood but

what about the T3 you really need to

look at that to make sure that is uh

insufficient amounts and so the point is

like where’s the real problem is it in

the conversion

is it in the production selenium has

also been known to decrease mixed edema

which is a big problem for hypothyroid

situations it looks like that but it’s

not fat it’s like the puffiness that is

throughout the body that makes you look

fat but it’s not an actual fat now

selenium also decreases inflammation why

because it’s involved in making

glutathione one of the most powerful

um antioxidants in the body and this is

why selenium is so important with your

liver as well

and that’s a whole different topic but

selenium can help prevent a fatty liver

it can help prevent inflammation in the

liver it can help prevent fibrosis in

your liver it can decrease your liver

enzymes it can even decrease the risk of

liver cancer now selenium is also high

in certain types of fish

and so if you’re concerned about getting

Mercury from certain fish a fish also

has selenium which makes this protein

that helps get rid of mercury in cadmium

now mercury has been linked to

autoimmune conditions of your thyroid

and cadmium by itself directly inhibits

the production of thyroid hormones so

here’s yet another reason why selenium

is so important for these conditions

selenium even decreased the risk of

getting an autoimmune condition because

apparently when you’re low in selenium

there’s a higher level of initiation of

autoimmune problems it’s kind of like

the match that triggers the fire and

also as a byproduct of

thyroid metabolism you have this

hydrogen peroxide so selenium helps you

make glutathione that helps you deal

with this hydrogen peroxide which is you

can create a toxicity in your thyroid

also when you get Graves disease which

is a hyperthyroid problem a lot of times

you get these bulging eyes well selenium

helps reduce that symptom too now where

do you get selenium well it’s in meat

it’s in fish it’s in eggs it’s in Dairy

cruciferous vegetables like cabbage and

broccoli it’s in nuts it’s in onions

it’s in garlic and it’s definitely an

organ Meats selenium can also help

decrease

the risk of getting those thyroid

nodules and it can even help prevent the

enlargement of your thyroid and your

thyroid has other mechanisms of

accumulating selenium helping recycling

it and making sure that you’re not

ending up in a low selenium situation I

hope you now know the importance of

selenium as it relates to the thyroid as

far as doses go of selenium of course I

would always recommend eating foods high

in selenium but I would recommend the

200 micrograms of selenium each day in a

nice base of other trace minerals just

to make sure you’re not you know

creating an imbalance and if it is true

that you have these antibodies you have

this autoimmune condition whether it’s

Graves

or Hashimoto’s I also recommend another

product I don’t sell it I’m not

affiliated with the company that does

but it’s called thytrophin PMG it’s from

a product developed by Standard Process

okay so you can look that up you would

take one before bed and that works a

little bit differently but I think the

combination of both of these would be

very very important in helping you

recover and for more information about

that I included that in this video right

here you should check it out