Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast.
0:07.4	Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing
0:11.3	healthy weight.
0:19.4	I had a question regarding thyroid nodules, okay, let's talk about that.
0:27.2	That really is a selenium deficiency.
0:31.0	Most of the selenium in the body is stored in the thyroid and most of the iodine trace
0:36.1	mineral is also stored in the thyroid.
0:38.6	So the thyroid needs both of these trace minerals in the right ratios.
0:42.6	If you're deficient in selenium and you have too much of iodine, that could be very damaging
0:47.2	to the thyroid and vice versa.
0:49.6	So you need the balance of both of these trace minerals.
0:52.4	One thing about selenium is that it acts as an antioxidant, okay.
0:57.7	The base of that antioxidant is called glutathione.
1:01.0	And glutathione helps to reduce hydrogen peroxide that's generated from the different biochemical
1:09.5	reactions that happen in the thyroid.
1:11.6	Now if you have an autoimmune disease of a thyroid called Hashimoto's, which by the
1:15.2	way the great majority of hypothyroid type problems is Hashimoto's, it's an autoimmune
1:22.1	situation, but it generates a lot of hydrogen peroxide as a byproduct.
1:28.4	Now when hydrogen peroxide builds up in the tissues, it creates damage to the thyroid
1:34.5	cells themselves.
1:36.6	And then that can actually create this fibrosis of the thyroid.
1:41.3	And that can be part of the nodules as well.
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