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so I want to talk about one of the most

important foods that you should be

eating on the ketogenic diet and that

would be shellfish okay why because if

you’re gonna do the healthy version of

Aikido you want to make sure that you

consume nutrient-dense foods and out of

all the foods shellfish are at the top

of the list when we deal with nutrients

that are really important and that are

commonly deficient in your diet so

shellfish is loaded with iodine mostly

iodine is stored in the thyroid it’s in

other organs too but it’s there to help

make thyroid hormones it’s really

important in a growing child also if a

woman is pregnant it’s vital that they

consume foods with iodine because that

has an influence on their IQ as well as

their growth so it’s very very important

number to iron now if you’re deficient

iron you can have a lot of problems

anemia growth and development carrying

oxygen through your body but having an

efficiency of iron is equally as bad as

having too much so you don’t want too

much you don’t want too little you want

just the right amount just so happens

that shellfish has a good amount of the

type of iron that your body needs next

one is zinc zinc important

well it’s involved in 2,000 different

enzymes in your body so it’s vitally

important for your immune system for

your skin to help you with testosterone

to help prevent viruses and bacteria so

it really helps your immune system it’s

just involved in a lot of different

things so shellfish is a little with

zinc selenium okay this is a really

important mineral by the way it’s a

trace mineral and it’s most concentrated

in the thyroid it acts as a very

powerful antioxidant to protect against

oxidation that we actually make as

hydrogen peroxide especially if we have

a problem with the thyroid let’s say for

example you in Hashimoto’s for example

or have any autoimmune you’re going to

generate more free radicals more

oxidants so you need a very powerful

antioxidant now your body makes

something called glutathione and guess

what you need selenium to make

at antioxidant so selenium is really in

central and keeping things at bay and

neutralizing these free radicals it does

a lot of other things as well

selenium is very plentiful in shellfish

next thing is copper

it’s another trace mineral copper is

really good for the adrenals it’s also

involved with collagen and ligaments and

tendons so it’s a really important trace

mineral and then we have DHA which is

really key for the brain for the eye for

the heart this is an omega-3 fatty acid

it helps in the development of the size

of the brain but it’s also important in

a lot of other things too in fact your

brain is structurally made out of this

fat okay shellfish has this fat then b12

if you’re deficient in b12 not only

could you experience Annie Mia but you

could experience debilitating

neurological problems that could become

permanent

so b12 is also in shellfish now if

you’re on the ketogenic diet definitely

start increasing the amount of shellfish

and your diet talking about crab lobster

shrimp scallops oysters clams and

mussels just make sure you add more

grass-fed butter to it as you dip your

shrimp or Lobster in the butter okay

because we want the benefit of the

healthy fat in there called butyrate

which is really good for our digestive

system now if we were to rate all the

foods based on the density of nutrients

in order of importance I would put this

number one this number two eggs have

just about every nutrient except vitamin

C number three is vegetables and I’m

talking about dark leafy greens and

especially things like asparagus very

very important for your full eight which

stabilizes your DNA it does a lot more

but a lot of people are deficient in

folate and also these foods have a lot

of magnesium and potassium and item and

C and by the way I would say forty to

fifty percent of the population is

deficient in magnesium which is another

really really important mineral that you

need okay then cruciferous vegetables

are also very important

and that will help to give you

additional health benefits that go way

beyond just vitamins and minerals plus

it has tons of potassium magnesium

vitamin C things like that okay then we

have fish okay make sure you get the

wild caught salmon is at the top of the

list you want fatty fish it’s loaded

with DHA it has B 12 and add zinc it has

a lot of these minerals right here and

then we get beef liver I personally

don’t like liver but I will consume

either pate or something like the

liverwurst that US wellness has because

they they add in their liver and kidney

and heart it’s actually very healthy for

you now there’s a lot of other foods

grass-fed meats and things like that but

I wanted to give you a list of very

nutrient-dense foods in the order that

I’m just basically arbitrarily making

but in the order which I think has the

most concentrated nutrients alright

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