Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

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.

Elysium 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 Brazilian 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

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