Is it Safe to Eat Shellfish With Heavy Metals?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In this podcast, I want to answer a question I received regarding shellfish. Is it ok to consume shellfish even though they may contain heavy metals?

A few really good things about shellfish like shrimp, lobster, and crab are: • They’re loaded with minerals and trace minerals. • They’re high in omega-3 fatty acids. • They’re high-quality sources of protein. • They contain selenium which helps to detox mercury and other heavy metals.

However, shellfish also contain heavy metals like mercury and even lead. For this reason, you should: • Not consume them that often (maybe 1x per week). • Not consume them at all if you’re pregnant. • Get your trace minerals from organic sea kelp harvested from a very healthy part of the world. • Choose wild-caught instead of farm-raised.

A few of the worst fish to eat because of heavy metals, specifically mercury contamination, are: • Shark • King mackerel • Swordfish

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0:21.6	Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Kito and Intermediate fasting podcast.
0:29.0	Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.
0:34.0	Dr Eric Berg.
0:35.0	So I had another question recently on Shellfish in relationship to them having heavy metals
0:41.0	and is it okay to consume those foods? I'm going to give you my two
0:44.8	cents. We're talking about shrimp, lobster, crab, mussels, oysters, and there are other ones as well.
0:50.8	Now the good thing about shellfish is that they're loaded with minerals
0:55.0	and trace minerals like zinc for example and selenium and they also have a good amount of
1:01.3	omega-3 fatty acids and they're very high quality sources of protein.
1:05.8	So that's the positive. The negative is that they do come with a package, heavy metals,
1:11.2	cadmium, mercury, even lead.
1:14.0	So for that reason, I would recommend not consuming them as often, I would say once per week.
1:21.0	If you're pregnant, don't consume them at all and get your trace minerals
1:25.4	from an organic seek help harvested from a very healthy part of the world.
1:36.0	Wild caught is usually better than farm raised, however, just because something is wild caught doesn't mean it doesn't have heavy metals as well.
1:41.0	But overall, while caught is just higher quality. Now here's the
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