12 Amazing Benefits of Selenium

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let’s talk about the benefits of selenium we’re gonna talk about 12 benefits selenium is a trace mineral extremely extremely powerful as an antioxidant it’s involved in a lot of different enzymes as a helper mineral that’s called a cofactor its main job as an antioxidant is to protect against oxidative damage so it’s really good for any type of chronic health problem reducing the complications of chronic issues like diabetes autoimmune conditions where there’s inflammation it helps to buffer that so number one it actually helps make something called glutathione which is the most powerful antioxidant in your body especially in the liver there were two oxidative stress reduction so it reduces the free radicals in the body that create a lot of damage and that’s why it has pretty powerful anti-cancer effects because if you can protect the DNA damage in your mitochondria in the nucleus of the cell you can actually counter the effects of carcinogens and their effect on different parts of your body carcinogens are things that cause or trigger cancer number three selenium is required for the conversion of t4 to t3 so it’s very important and getting your thyroid to work correctly especially in Hashimoto’s which is an autoimmune hypothyroidism it’s just as important for the thyroid as iodine if not more important and by the way 90% of hypothyroid conditions are autoimmune alright number four it reduces complications of certain diseases for example diabetes peripheral neuropathy cataracts anything that’s producing a lot of free radical damage it can help counter the effects of that I already mentioned this anti-cancer anti-tumor effects and I will put some of the research down below seven alcohol related liver disease if you have cirrhosis in the liver or a fatty liver and you have a lot of oxidation you want to take selenium also number eight arsenic poisoning take selenium for that as well number nine autoimmune I mentioned that it can significantly reduce something called thyroid peroxidase antibodies as well as hydrogen peroxide which generates a lot of free radicals you want to use selenium as the main antioxidant now realize the RDAs for selenium are fifty five micrograms okay not milligrams micrograms but the therapeutic dosage that you would want to take if you had any of these conditions right here would be 200 micrograms now are there any toxic effects of selenium yes if you take way too much like if you take lots of grams of this product you can have certain health problems that are related to digestion heart cognitive function but it’s very unlikely you’re gonna overdose from that especially if you’re getting it from a supplement because the supplements usually come in micrograms not milligrams all right number 10 benign prostatic hypertrophy enlarged prostate selenium is good for that 11 diabetes pre-diabetes insulin resistance number 12 it has the ability to detoxify mercury so if you’re consuming fish that has mercury fish normally also has selenium but really the negative effects of mercury have to do with blocking the antioxidant with selenium so if you have enough selenium you’re not going to have near the side effects from mercury now the type of selenium you would want to get for in these conditions would be Celino methionine this is the one I would recommend taking if you wanted to counter some of these effects right here now what about Brazil nuts the problem with Brazil nuts is yes they have probably more selenium than any other food but they are also very very high and find a gasset which blocks selenium so if you’re going to take Brazil nuts you want to make sure that you soak them in water overnight dry them out and it’s called germination to get rid of this phytic acid so you can get the benefit from selenium now if you haven’t seen my video on the relationship between selenium and mercury when you eat fish I put it right here check it out