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let’s talk about the benefits of

selenium we’re gonna talk about 12

benefits selenium is a trace mineral

extremely extremely powerful as an

antioxidant it’s involved in a lot of

different enzymes as a helper mineral

that’s called a cofactor its main job as

an antioxidant is to protect against

oxidative damage so it’s really good for

any type of chronic health problem

reducing the complications of chronic

issues like diabetes autoimmune

conditions where there’s inflammation it

helps to buffer that so number one it

actually helps make something called

glutathione which is the most powerful

antioxidant in your body especially in

the liver there were two oxidative

stress reduction so it reduces the free

radicals in the body that create a lot

of damage and that’s why it has pretty

powerful anti-cancer effects because if

you can protect the DNA damage in your

mitochondria in the nucleus of the cell

you can actually counter the effects of

carcinogens and their effect on

different parts of your body carcinogens

are things that cause or trigger cancer

number three selenium is required for

the conversion of t4 to t3 so it’s very

important and getting your thyroid to

work correctly especially in Hashimoto’s

which is an autoimmune hypothyroidism

it’s just as important for the thyroid

as iodine if not more important

and by the way 90% of hypothyroid

conditions are autoimmune alright number

four it reduces complications of certain

diseases for example diabetes peripheral

neuropathy cataracts anything that’s

producing a lot of free radical damage

it can help counter the effects of that

I already mentioned this anti-cancer

anti-tumor effects and I will put some

of the research down below seven alcohol

related liver disease if

you have cirrhosis in the liver or a

fatty liver and you have a lot of

oxidation you want to take selenium also

number eight arsenic poisoning take

selenium for that as well

number nine autoimmune I mentioned that

it can significantly reduce something

called thyroid peroxidase antibodies as

well as hydrogen peroxide which

generates a lot of free radicals you

want to use selenium as the main

antioxidant now realize the RDAs for

selenium are fifty five micrograms okay

not milligrams micrograms

but the therapeutic dosage that you

would want to take if you had any of

these conditions right here would be 200

micrograms now are there any toxic

effects of selenium yes if you take way

too much like if you take lots of grams

of this product you can have certain

health problems that are related to

digestion heart cognitive function but

it’s very unlikely you’re gonna overdose

from that especially if you’re getting

it from a supplement because the

supplements usually come in micrograms

not milligrams all right number 10

benign prostatic hypertrophy enlarged

prostate selenium is good for that 11

diabetes pre-diabetes insulin resistance

number 12 it has the ability to detoxify

mercury so if you’re consuming fish that

has mercury fish normally also has

selenium but really the negative effects

of mercury have to do with blocking the

antioxidant with selenium so if you have

enough selenium you’re not going to have

near the side effects from mercury now

the type of selenium you would want to

get for in these conditions would be

Celino methionine this is the one I

would recommend taking if you wanted to

counter some of these effects right here

now what about Brazil nuts the problem

with Brazil nuts is yes they have

probably more selenium than any other

food but they are also

very very high and find a gasset which

blocks selenium so if you’re going to

take Brazil nuts you want to make sure

that you soak them in water overnight

dry them out and it’s called germination

to get rid of this phytic acid so you

can get the benefit from selenium now if

you haven’t seen my video on the

relationship between selenium and

mercury when you eat fish I put it right

here check it out