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so I had another question recently on

shellfish in relationship to them having

heavy metals and is it okay to consume

those Foods I’m going to give you my two

cents we’re talking about shrimp lobster

crab mussels oysters and there are other

ones as well now the good thing about

shellfish is that they’re loaded with

minerals and trace minerals like zinc

for example and selenium

and they also have a good amount of

omega-3 fatty acids and they’re very

high quality sources of protein so

that’s the positive the negative is that

they do come with a package heavy metals

cadmium Mercury even lead okay so for

that reason I would recommend not

consuming them as often I would say once

per week if you’re pregnant don’t

consume them at all and get your trace

minerals from an organic sea calp

harvested from a very healthy part of

the world

um while caught is usually better than

farm-raised however

just because something is well caught

doesn’t mean it doesn’t have heavy

metals as well but overall wild caught

is just higher quality now here’s the

good thing about shellfish it has

selenium

selenium helps to detoxify Mercury and

other heavy metals because this is

involved in certain enzymes in your body

that actually protect you against heavy

metals so that’s good

of course you’d want to avoid like shark

king mackerel and swordfish which have

very high amounts of heavy metals

specifically Mercury and when you buy

shellfish you want to find out where it

comes from so on the label okay you’re

going to see something that says country

of origin labeling or cool and it’s

going to tell you where it’s from

however if it’s frozen there’s going to

be two labels and you want to pay close

attention to where it’s originally from

versus where it’s manufactured so they

might ship it in from a place that is a

very polluted ocean the North Atlantic

is better and the shellfish and fish off

the coast of the US do have stricter

standards but I put a couple links down

below that will help you identify

certain locations around the world and

the levels of heavy metals so you can

actually understand the bigger picture

anyway thanks for watching and I’ll see

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