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today I want to talk about some really

interesting points about selenium that

you’ve never heard before so when I talk

about selenium which is the trace

mineral Brazil nuts are really high in

selenium they might know that it’s

involved in thyroid function it helps

convert T4 the inactive version of the

thyroid hormone to the active form of

the thyroid hormone T3 they may also

know that it helps to detoxify Mercury

and it can help fight and prevent cancer

especially the prostate and the lung

selenium is also really important in

cardiovascular health and preventing

strokes and also in preventing dementia

simply because it tends to fight free

radicals and inflammation that can occur

in the brain and so it’s really good in

the prevention of Alzheimer’s

Parkinson’s and other types of

degeneration that occur in our nervous

system and so here are some things that

you probably don’t know about selenium

the real reason why it’s high in Brazil

nuts now the Brazil nuts come from the

Brazil resilient tree which is in South

America and what’s unique about the soil

that this tree has grown on is that it’s

nearly absent of sulfur and the

chemistry of sulfur is very similar to

selenium

and this means that selenium can bind

with certain amino acids just like

sulfur can and be a functional

substitute for sulfur and so when you

just consume one Brazil nut you’re

getting like I think 96 micrograms of

selenium which is more than enough you

don’t need a lot of selenium you just

need tiny amounts because they’re also

on the flip side is some problems with

taking too much selenium and becoming

selenium toxic and from that you can get

hair loss neuropathies Tremors other

neurological problems issues with the

heart there’s a lot of issues that you

can get if you take too much so just

because a lot of people are deficient in

selenium like over a billion doesn’t

mean they should start overloading their

bodies with selenium especially out of

the balance of all the trace minerals I

mean the requirements for selenium are

roughly between 50 and 70 micrograms

okay but here’s the big question and

something that rarely do people know

about

why are so many people deficient in

selenium is it because they don’t

consume enough Brazil nuts well selenium

is in a lot of other Foods it’s in your

Meats it’s in red meats it’s in organ

Meats it’s in shellfish like I said it’s

even in chicken and turkey and pork and

lamb it’s in egg yolks okay it’s a

nutritional yeast now it’s also on

certain plants but not in very high

amounts where do animals get their

selenium well from the plants that grow

on the land where does the plants get it

from the soil now here’s the thing that

is new information for most people

selenium is not just sitting there

passively in the soil waiting to be

absorbed it’s usually in a form that the

plant roots have a difficult time

extracting they need help and they get

help from the microbes and this is

actually very new information and I’m

going to show you a video right now of a

close-up of really what happens and how

plants get the majority of new nutrition

so if you see these little things by the

root you’re getting this Exchange

from the bacteria okay being absorbed

into the root but really the plant root

is eating the bacteria and it’s

extracting the minerals and then the

bacteria in the process loses its cell

wall it’s still alive it actually gets

food from the root it’s fed

carbohydrates of course they’re not on

keto and then the root spits out this

bacteria

start this cycle again and again this

whole cycle is called rhizophagy which

basically comes from two words rhiza

meaning root and feiji meaning eat okay

so the roots that eat bacteria that then

get a lot of their nutrition and then

they spit it out and they actually start

to cycle over and over and over again

and so it’s really missing in this chain

of events is

microbe diversity and the amount of

microbes in the soil so we just don’t

pay attention or consider importance

this biology in the soil

in the amount of bacteria and fungus as

well as in the diversification of these

microbes and this has been really a huge

omitted factor in the health of the soil

and the health of the plant and the

health of the animal and in our health

the microbes are the Workhorse that have

certain acids that mobilize these

minerals from rocks and unless someone

understands that especially Farmers okay

unfortunately a lot of the conventional

farmers

don’t understand that and so they don’t

have this biology in the soil and now

what happens is that they’re forced to

put various things in the soil usually

NPK which is nitrogen phosphorus and

potassium to kind of boost the growth of

the plant and so the health of the

plant’s not there and so insects and

pests accumulate and so they have to use

pesticides and then the weeds come they

have to use herbicides and what’s even

more wild is that all the way up to

chain you know we suffer we don’t have

necessarily the the strength that we

should have with our immune system so

we’re forced to take antibiotics now you

might want to say what about the

microbes in the soil do they get

antibiotics well that just so happens

that one of the most common herbicides

out there is classified as an antibiotic

even when you buy soil at the store okay

to grow certain things if you’re buying

the soil

it comes sterilized okay they sterilize

it sterilization means you kill the

microbes you heat it up so the more that

we omit this very important factor this

biology in the soil and the more that we

eat you know pasteurized Foods sterilize

Foods cooked Foods canned foods the more

our health suffers and this is why in a

lot of my videos I talk about at the

very least start consuming fermented

foods start buying foods from Farmers

that really care about their soil that

grow things with microbial diversity so

I just spent a little more time on that

one topic because it’s so important

here are a couple other points too

it could be that you have a genetic

mutation related to the proteins or

enzymes with selenium in which case it

makes it even more important to get

enough selenium to build up certain

enzymes like glutathione which is

greatly needed in the liver to help you

detoxify poisons and even mercury in the

liver when people take statins

sentence are drugs that block

cholesterol many times they have muscle

symptoms and neurological symptoms well

it just so happens that those symptoms

mimic a selenium deficiency because

statins actually interfere with the

enzymes that involve selenium when you

get enough selenium your muscles are

protected and this is probably why

animal proteins like red meat and other

types of muscle protein are loaded with

selenium and there’s also some great

data on how selenium can directly

increase the diversification of your own

microbiome and increase the abundance of

your microbes so apparently microbes

really like selenium especially if you

have dysbiosis or some type of imbalance

with your microbes however another

really important topic related to

selenium has to do with this mercury in

fish okay for that information I highly

recommend you watch this video right

here