Brazil nut

It's fantastic.

So if you want to get your mother-in-law on board, yeah, get loads of walnuts in there, loads of Brazil nuts, things like that.

They're really, really good for selenium.

Two Brazil nuts a day, really good for men for their selenium.

Selenium is fantastic.

Selenium and zinc are really fantastic for sperm health.

So just two Brazil nuts a day, you could do that.

after you brush your teeth couldn't you straight away as soon as you're you're downstairs just wax your walnuts in or Brazil nuts and off you go um but yeah that they're really really good bits of advice I'd say that our community I I praise them for that

We want to be able to pull locally where we can.

But things like Brazil nuts do not grow in the United States.

Things like coffee don't grow at scale in the United States.

We have a very, very small coffee supply.

I don't think there's any easy path unless you're independently wealthy and you are.

I think it's going to always be an up and down roller coaster on the capital front.

So for us, when we see a runaway, which we have right now, we have a runaway in our Brazil nuts.

Those are a huge product line for us.

Oh, those are my favourite ones.

I hate a Brazil nut.

I don't know why.

For me, I just can't, but cashew nuts, I love.

Eggs and clean protein like salmon, also great there.

And Brazil nuts, high in selenium, also great for supporting glutathione.

And then some of the most important co-factors for your body recycling or making more glutathione, so it's not just about glutathione, it's making sure that the machine works that creates glutathione.

So again, you want something like glynac or N-acetylcysteine.

but they did not give up until they had discovered it, which I hope is exactly the way you will behave.

Another thing that puzzled the boys was the Brazil nut.

They puzzled over that a long time.

They couldn't make up their minds that it was a seed baby at all.

I think, said Jack one day, that it is not a seed-baby at all, for it hasn't told us anything.

Huh! said the Brazil-nut.

you had better keep still jack it will begin to tell you you don't understand said ko warningly well said the brazil nut i might tell you that and tell the truth but it would be too much trouble i prefer to talk about myself i grow in the forests of brazil where it is the hottest summer all the year round and i grow on a very tall and very handsome tree twenty or thirty of us grow together in a cup that looks something like a cocoanut we fill the space so full and are so nicely fitted together that if any one unpacks us he can never put us all back again some of my cousins have lids to their cups and these lids fall open when the cups get ripe and drop from the tree and let the nuts fall out These are called monkey cups because the monkeys that live in the forest where we grow like to play with them.

My cup has no lid, however, but is apt to break in its fall from the tall tree, or else we have to lie and wait and wait for that hard cup to get soft in the wet ground.

But on that note, there are a couple of other foods that keep being mentioned when it comes to implantation.

One that comes up a lot is Brazil nuts.

I hadn't heard of this, but I recommend these because actually there is a study around pregnancy.

I think it was improved pregnancy rates.

The idea behind it is they contain selenium, which supports the thyroid.

And thyroid is really, really important around implantation.

So two to three Brazil nuts a day, you'll be getting enough selenium.

And then you can find in a prenatal, you've got a nice dose of selenium as well.

Ten to twenty-five hard-shelled seeds packed together tightly like the segments of an orange.

Those seeds are the Brazil nut.

And here's a fact that's going to anchor this entire episode.

Eat just one or two of them, and depending on which tree, which soil, and which part of the Amazon that seed came from, you may have already met or blown past your entire selenium requirement for the day.

No other whole food on the planet comes close to matching that concentration.

Today, we're taking apart what's actually inside that seed, a family of unusual molecules called organoselenium compounds.

Led, led by one called selenomethionine that makes Brazil nuts one of the most potent and frankly, one of the trickiest foods we've covered on the show.

We'll look at what the human clinical research actually shows about selenium, thyroid function, cognition, inflammation, and the cancer prevention claims you've probably heard of.

The European walnut has only to defy a few small woodland animals, who are sufficiently deterred by its acrid husk.

The American butternut has to withstand the long teeth of much more formidable forestine rodents, whom it sets at nought with its stony and wrinkled shell; and the tropical cocoas and Brazil nuts have to escape the monkey, who pounds them with stones, or flings them with all his might from the tree-top, so as to smash them in their fall against the ground below.

Our own hazel-nut supplies an excellent illustration of the general tactics adopted by the nuts at large.

The little red tufted blossoms, which everybody knows so well in early spring, are each surrounded by a bunch of three bracts; and as the nut grows bigger, these bracts form a green leaf-like covering, which causes it to look very much like the ordinary foliage of the hazel-tree.

Accordingly, its shell is extravagantly thick, only one small soft spot being left at the blunter end, through which the young plant may push its head.

Once upon a time, to be sure, the cocoa-nut contained three kernels, and had three such soft spots or holes; but now two of them are aborted, and the two holes remain only in the form of hard scars.

The Brazil nut is even a better illustration.

Probably few people know that the irregular angular nuts which appear at dessert by that name are originally contained inside a single round shell, where they fit tightly together, and acquire their queer indefinite shapes by mutual pressure.

This occupies a strange middle ground, heavier than the lotions but not as aggressively occlusive as the coconut butter.

Bertholletia excelsa, Brazil nuts seed oil, provides selenium, vitamin E, and omega-6 fatty acids with a texture profile closer to macadamia or argan oil than coconut.

The scent is subtle, almost neutral, a faint nuttiness that dissipates within an hour.

This makes it the best option for people who want rich moisturization without competing with their perfume or occupying scent space in a shared bedroom.