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.
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