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i wanted to do a video on emphasizing a  certain point related to the thyroid gland  

if you’re supplementing iodine for the thyroid  do not forget selenium it’s just as important the  

enzymes that allow you to convert t4 the inactive  form of the thyroid hormone to t3 the active form  

it involves selenium so selenium has a crucial  role in maintaining normal thyroid physiology and  

also i wanted to mention a study which i’m going  to link down below that demonstrated this iodine  

given alone in selenium-deficient animals was  found to cause irreversible thyroid gland fibrosis  

so potentially if you’re deficient in selenium and  you are using iodine not in a blend like sea kelp  

but just as a supplement iodine without selenium  it could make things worse and also check this  

next part out which actually opposes this first  concept selenium given alone in iodine-deficient  

animals was found to cause an aggravation of the  iodine deficiency and there’s a whole series of  

symptoms related to iodine deficiency in  the study which you can read down below  

the point of this study is that you should always  take iodine with selenium best source would be  

sea kelp something that has all the trace  minerals including selenium and iodine  

one last point one of the most important  antioxidants in the body especially in your liver  

is glutathione vital and it is dependent  on selenium so selenium is a trace mineral  

involved in a lot of enzyme reactions not  just in the thyroid but in your liver as well  

if you haven’t seen my other videos on selenium  i put them up right here check them out