Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Dr. Eric Berg.

I'm going to recommend consuming one Brazil nut every single day as just part of your routine.

Why? Because one Brazil nut contains roughly between 68 to 91 micrograms of selenium.

And I'm going to talk about the importance of selenium.

We need it. It's essential. And many people are deficient.

The daily value of selenium that we need is about 55 micrograms.

So one nut would totally prevent a deficiency.

About 500 million to 1 billion people on planet earth are deficient.

Now, there's a lot more that have subclinical deficiencies.

And selenium is a trace mineral. It's in the soils.

And the plant is supposed to absorb it.

If the plant has the necessary microorganisms in the soil to make it available to the plant.

And also, if there's selenium in the soil, because selenium is not distributed evenly on the earth's crust.

There's certain pockets. It's more on the coastline.

And it's more associated with soils that are rich in iodine.

And so we know a lot of soils are deficient in iodine.

The chances are they're also deficient in selenium.

The other problem with selenium in the soil is that when we fertilize the soil with NPK,

which is a conventional type fertilizer, the phosphorus that's the P will make selenium unavailable as well.

So unless you're putting selenium in the soil, chances are it's not going to be in the soil for the plant to absorb.

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