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Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Are Oysters Good For You? – Dr. Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Oysters are a popular seafood and can even be found in supplement form, but are oysters good for you?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I wanted to do a quick video on oysters someone had a question

0:03.2

Are they okay to consume so let me just kind of give you the good news and the bad news the good news is that they're loaded with

0:08.4

Omega-3 fatty acids. I mean they're off the charts with that

0:12.4

massive amounts of zinc actually

0:14.9

1500% the RDA's so zinc is good for fertility. It's good for increasing testosterone

0:22.3

protein vitamin D be 12 iron copper manganese

0:28.5

Selenium be 1 be 2 be 3 okay, so it's it's a lot of nutrients

0:34.0

The bad news is that there are some toxins in oysters. So if you were going to consume oysters

0:39.0

I wouldn't do it very frequently and also realize that their filter feeders not bottom feeders

0:43.6

So they have gills and they absorb like algae from the water. It's not necessarily from the complete bottom of the ocean

0:50.0

So it's not as toxic as other other fish or seafood and also realize that the Selenium in oysters

0:57.8

Will help counter some of the heavy metals that are present okay because the

1:04.6

The liver needs Selenium to actually break down

1:07.9

Mercury for example, so anyway, so that's my two cents on oysters. Thanks for watching

1:14.4

Hey, I appreciate your attention and if you're enjoying these videos

1:17.1

Go ahead and subscribe and I will definitely keep you updated on future events live events and webinars that we're going to do very soon

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