How to Manage Your Selenium Status | Chris Masterjohn Lite #87

Selenium makes you resilient to all kinds of stress, including the physical attacks of infections and toxins. It keeps your nails healthy, prevents the wear and tear on your tissues as you age, keeps your body from launching too much inflammation and releasing too much histamine, and appears to protect against several cancers.

On the other hand, too much worsens the risk of diabetes and causes some of the same problems that “just enough” protects against.

Because the soils vary so much in their selenium content, it’s hard to judge what you’re getting just from the foods you eat, and selenium is one mineral I think everyone should test at least once.

Tune in for everything you need to know about how to manage your selenium status!

[pubmsu]

Thanks for these videos Chris and team! Really appreciate and very useful.

[vikingstorm]

Selenium max dosage is 55 mcg, 200 mcg, or 400 mcg depending on the source you read on the internet. I eat a carnivore diet, so 3 eggs, 12 oz steak, fish, braunschweiger liverwurst, cream, butter, yogurt, etc. All my food is about 365 mcg averaged out. Maybe slightly over 400 mcg if I eat a ton

[aurorasugarmagnolia]

Saved my eyes from thyroid eye disease and helped lower Graves antibodies.

[JP-kqel]

Hello Dr. Masterjohn, how do I know how long to stop taking selenium supplements and any brazil nuts if I test positive for plasma selenium toxicity? I’ve been eating 11 Brazil nuts and two 200 mcg. selenium supplements daily for a long time. I have non celiac gluten sensitivity and take a Spectracell micronutrient test at least yearly and it always shows I’m borderline or deficient in selenium. I haven’t had a Spectracell micronutrient test in 2024 though. I also eat two 3 oz. servings of chicken and one 3 oz. serving of seafood daily. For the first time this week I felt nauseous during lunch and for about an hour after eating 6 Brazil nuts and taking my regular nutritional supplements including the 200 mcg. of selenium. So I eliminated all selenium supplementation and the Brazil nuts for now. What should I do short term and long term? Thank you, Joan

[cdtimmin]

I had no idea that liver had selenium in it. Thanks! I'm stopping my supplement now!

[dris]

I'm trying to get selenium (and iodine) from roasted seaweed.

[annajanette]

Can you please add the environment is suffering from selenium toxicity especially in the northwest usa. It can also be spread by rainfall. Als diagnoses are expected to rise. It is possible water and foods may contain more selenium than expected. Selenium also accumulates in the body with age. There is no treatment for selenium poisoning.

[shedroids]

You Do understand that most physicians do not test you for selenium because they consider it "alternative" medicine so the best someone helpful can do is to speak in terms of the disease and what is likely a good gauge of vitamin-injesting.

[jameskantor]

Is the test for selenium a plasma rather than whole blood.

[MegaMr]

my selenium plasma level is 1.5.. umol/L 0.7 -1.4.. i have hemochromatosis if that has anything to do with it.

[greenfield]

Great video Chris. So it's a U shaped curve like Vit D. Its common here (eastern Canada) to give newborn beef cattle injections of selenium to prevent white muscle disease.

[KevinZJR]

What's the reason of not using methylselenocysteine?

[bozidarsadak]

Lab at which I have done a blood test has reference ranges 33.5 µg/L - 83.7 µg/L. How is it even possible to have such a difference in reference ranges, you say its between 90 and 140 I dont know...
My selenium came out as 75.4 µg/L. I am quite deficient by your standard and an official one. According to this labs reference range I am standing quite good.

[momoary]

Selenium is mainly absorbed in the duodenum and caecum by active transport through a sodium pump. Is that means when we are low with salt we can't absorb selenium?

[rainstormr]

I take 40 mcg selenium
higher dosages (like 200 mcg) have given me terrible headaches that peak the next day
usually your min doses are really low
so I was a bit surprised by your min-dose recomendation for selenium.
thx.

[paulac]

Hello, i have been taking potassium drops in water for some time for ectopic heart beats. Over the course of about 18 months i became very ill. All the symptoms you have mentioned and more !!! i didnt know what it was but when i looked at the small print on my potassium drops it said contains selenium. I think i have been suffering from selenium toxicity. I have stopped the drops and three weeks on i feel a little better but still have many symptoms including metallic taste in my mouth and inflammation in my lower abdomen. I am eating a normal diet. How long does it take to recover from selenium toxicity ?? i read that selenium is stored in the muscles so i'm assuming it will be a while. Thanks

[lafemmesanspseudo]

My French analysis say have too much (134 ug in plasma - norms 52-120) and I'm freaking out -_- I thought I had not enough (hypothyroidism) and apparently the toxicity takes a long time to wear off... But from what I gather in this video, it's OK until 140?

[shedroids]

Does someone with Graves have low or high selenium... and how much does one need to take, if at all? There is absolutely ZERO information on Youtube about Graves and what to take.

[nameremoved]

I've been pretty sure I have had too much. Selenium supplements sends my BG up. Once up on a time, I was Brazil nut eater and my nails didn't look right. I avoid selenium.

[Vivldi]

Is it true that you cant overdose Natriiumselenite? In oppositve of Seleniummethionine which can build up in your body, Natriumselenite wont?