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rhondalea · 11-07-2013, 04:58 PM

No, not brazil nuts. The amount of selenium in brazil nuts is highly variable, and sometimes it's just plain high. Dangerously so. Better to control the dosage with a pill and a food diary that tracks selenium. (I track all my nutrients from food so I don't over-supplement, and I never eat brazil nuts.)

The I-am-not-sure-this-is-a-reputable-source article:

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/blo...-selenium.html

The study (abstract only):

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...527.x/abstract

Aflatoxins in brazil nuts:

http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/22045...razil_nuts.pdf

A more optimistic study that ignores all of the above:

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/2/379.full

I don't tend toward high blood sugar, btw. When my endo stuck the Dexcom on me, my results were pretty scary--I was going into the 40s while I slept, and I wasn't getting very good glucose levels during the day either. It's better now, though. I feel very lucky to have been accepted into the metformin trial, because I was afraid hypoglycemia would be cause for rejection.

11-07-2013, 04:58 PM	#19
rhondalea Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Somerset, NJ Posts: 487	Re: Tsh low -- what does it mean? No, not brazil nuts. The amount of selenium in brazil nuts is highly variable, and sometimes it's just plain high. Dangerously so. Better to control the dosage with a pill and a food diary that tracks selenium. (I track all my nutrients from food so I don't over-supplement, and I never eat brazil nuts.) The I-am-not-sure-this-is-a-reputable-source article: http://www.scientificpsychic.com/blo...-selenium.html The study (abstract only): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...527.x/abstract Aflatoxins in brazil nuts: http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/22045...razil_nuts.pdf A more optimistic study that ignores all of the above: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/2/379.full I don't tend toward high blood sugar, btw. When my endo stuck the Dexcom on me, my results were pretty scary--I was going into the 40s while I slept, and I wasn't getting very good glucose levels during the day either. It's better now, though. I feel very lucky to have been accepted into the metformin trial, because I was afraid hypoglycemia would be cause for rejection.