What's Behind Thyroid Nodules?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Someone recently had a question about thyroid nodules. What’s behind thyroid nodules, and what can you do about them?
What causes thyroid nodules?
• A selenium deficiency
Most of the selenium and iodine in the body is stored in the thyroid. The thyroid needs both of these trace minerals in the right ratios. Selenium is just as important as iodine in thyroid function.
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
| 0:10.6 | call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 540-299-1557. That's 540-299-1557. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast. Now your host, |
| 0:30.7 | the man taking your health to a whole new level. Dr. Eric Berg. I had a question regarding |
| 0:37.4 | thyroid nodules. Okay, let's talk about that. That really is a |
| 0:41.6 | selenium deficiency. Most of the selenium in the body is stored in the thyroid. |
| 0:48.1 | And most of the iodine trace mineral is also stored in the thyroid. So the thyroid needs |
| 0:53.1 | both of these trace minerals in the right |
| 0:55.6 | ratios. If you're deficient in selenium and you have too much of iodine, that could be very |
| 1:00.7 | damaging to the thyroid and vice versa. So you need the balance of both of these trace minerals. |
| 1:06.0 | One thing about selenium is that it acts as an antioxidant. Okay. The base of that antioxidant is called glutathione, |
| 1:14.5 | and glutathione helps to reduce hydrogen peroxide that's generated from the different biochemical |
| 1:23.3 | reactions that happen in the thyroid. Now, if you have an autoimmune disease of the thyroid |
| 1:27.4 | called Hashimoto's, which, by the way, the great majority of hypothyroid type problems is Hashimoto's. |
| 1:35.0 | It's an autoimmune situation, but it generates a lot of hydrogen peroxide as a byproduct. |
| 1:42.1 | Now, when hydrogen peroxide builds up in the tissues, it creates damage to the thyroid |
| 1:48.3 | cells themselves, and then that can actually create this fibrosis of the thyroid, and that can be |
| 1:55.6 | part of the nodules as well. So selenium has the ability to not just get rid of the free radical damage and the oxidation |
| 2:03.3 | that occurs from autoimmune, but it can also reduce the antibodies that are involved in this |
| 2:09.3 | condition, Hashimoto. Selenium also is involved in converting T4 to T3. So basically, selenium is just as important as iodine in the thyroid function. |
| 2:23.1 | So the next question is, what type of selenium should someone take to help this condition? |
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