Selenium

Yes,

a lot of selenium.

I need Selenio.

So basically the Goza beers traditionally are brewed with some type of wheat, sea salt,

and coriander.

In the hidden, oil-rich corners of biology, survival depends on molecules that can live there and hold the line where water-based defenders cannot.

Selenium supports antioxidant enzymes without acting exactly like a vitamin.

Selenium is one of those nutrients that rarely becomes the star of public conversation, yet it plays a role of extraordinary precision.

It is needed in tiny amounts, and instead of acting like a classic antioxidant that directly mops up reactive molecules, it becomes part of certain enzymes that do protective work.

In that sense, it functions more like a crucial component in a finely crafted tool.

I don't know what's being supplied on someone's farm, but I do know in that area, I wanna make sure I'm getting those boxes checked for vitamins and minerals.

And if I go a little bit over, that that's OK. Selenium would be one that I wouldn't want to get over on, but most of them we've got some leeway that we can go and have some overage.

Because I don't know about the health status or body condition score of the horse eating it, I want to make some assumptions and make sure that I'm making recommendations based on horses of all varying workloads, life statuses, age, weight, are getting a full plane of vitamins and minerals, protein, good source of fiber if they need it, and energy on top of that.

So it's really hard to explain it in simple terms, but a nutritionist is really trying to make sure that your horse is receiving that full daily vitamin and mineral package.

It's found in poultry, right? meats, cereals, certain nuts, certain grains.

And what selenium is, it's an essential part of cellular antioxidant systems that protects cells from DNA damage and mutations.

And for this reason, selenium has been studied for prevention of diseases caused or aggravated by this type of Selenium is also necessary for proper immune function, but it's not known whether higher than normal levels of selenium can stimulate the immune system.

So I'm giving you that background about this one little nutrient, this micronutrient trace mineral selenium, and sharing with you how crazy it would be for someone to say, eat this nutrient, right? Now, if, you know, I include foods that have selenium in them in my diet because I think they're beneficial just overall, but there is, you know, while the science isn't there yet regarding preventive or protective roles of selenium, I love the idea that that it has this cellular antioxidant ability.

It's a part of that system that protects cells from DNA damage and mutations.

You could go swim with salmon.

um and at the time i was doing other content still trying to like you know kiteboard there in here whatever cliff jump but i was just like dying and i couldn't keep up with the consistency my body couldn't so i started posting more of this content and i saw that it would it was picking up people were naturally attracted to the mystery of what happens underwater yeah So I started focusing on that content where I started hitting our coast, like a video while I could eat there.

I would go hit the jetty, catch my first rockfish, go cook it.

And then the more I started diving in our waters, the more I realized there's a lot of good seafood in my own backyard.

So testing iodine status is reasonable.

I don't want to throw that out, but supplementing iodine blindly in a 21 year old with a tsh of 83 before you know where the whether this is autoimmune it's a little like handing someone gasoline before you've confirmed there isn't already a fire test first don't assume natural automatically means safe in this particular scenario Selenium is a different story, and I think it's a smart inclusion on that practitioner's part.

Selenium is a cofactor that the body needs to convert T4 into active T3 hormone, and there's reasonably good research showing selenium supplementation can help lower TPO antibody levels in people with autoimmune thyroiditis, particularly in areas with adequate iodine intake.

So checking selenium status and correcting a deficiency if one exists is a sound piece of that puzzle, not a replacement for medication, but a legitimate support alongside it.

And then there's iron, and I'm glad this one made the list too, because it gets overlooked constantly.

Zinc, magnesium, selenium, they all round out the picture as well.

So zinc at 11 milligrams, magnesium at around 350 to 360 milligrams.

Selenium, 65, 70 milligrams.

They all support enzymatic structural and antioxidant machinery with selenium also feeding thyroid function.

So selenium is really important to support your thyroid, to support the metabolic event of pregnancy.

So the MTHFR C677T variant matters mostly in Asian populations, but is essentially null in Western ones.

We're not seeing concurrent results in these different studies in different populations.

Selenium is lower in some recurrent loss groups, but no trial shows supplementation reduces the loss.

Let's talk about phytonutrients, bioactive compounds, and the organo-selenium family.

Here's a part that makes Brazil nuts more than just a high-selenium food.

Selenium itself, absorbed from soil as an inorganic material, doesn't stay inorganic once the tree takes it up.

Using synchrotron-based imaging, researchers published in the journal Plants in two thousand and nineteen found that roughly ninety-one percent of the selenium inside a Brazil nut seed exists as organic carbon-selenium-carbon compounds, meaning the plant has enzymatically stitched selenium directly into organic molecules, not left it as a loose mineral salt.

That same imaging work found that selenium isn't distributed evenly throughout the seed either.

Let's now look at human and cellular clinical research.

Let's go finding by finding, because this is a food where the strength of evidence varies enormously depending on exactly what's being claimed.

Selenium status and glutathione peroxidase activity.

In the hidden, oil-rich corners of biology, survival depends on molecules that can live there and hold the line where water-based defenders cannot.

Selenium supports antioxidant enzymes without acting exactly like a vitamin.

Selenium is one of those nutrients that rarely becomes the star of public conversation, yet it plays a role of extraordinary precision.

It is needed in tiny amounts, and instead of acting like a classic antioxidant that directly mops up reactive molecules, it becomes part of certain enzymes that do protective work.

In that sense, it functions more like a crucial component in a finely crafted tool.

And that brings us to something much more important.

Let's use selenium.

Selenium is important for thyroid biology.

It plays a role in antioxidant defenses and thyroid hormone metabolism.

And there is actually meaningful research in Hashimoto's.

I use them.

There are nutrients with evidence behind them.

Selenium has evidence in Hashimoto's.