Selenium for a Healthy Thyroid

Those practicing complementary, alternative, integrative, functional, anti-aging medicine or whatever descriptive term you want to use have known forever about the importance of selenium for thyroid health.  For without a healthy thyroid, our metabolism gets out of whack, we gain weight w/o reason, and lose a substantial amount of energy, all the while becoming constipated & unable to think clearly.  It's a bit of a domino or house of cards effect.

Those of us in the traditional realm have typically patched & whitewashed this w/levothyroxine but haven't looked further as to the cause.  Just published this month is a nice review article in a mainstream journal (JCEM) documenting the importance of selenium for thyroid health.

Besides multivitamins & supplements, where should we look for natural sources of selenium?  Shellfish, crabs, kidney, liver, and Brazil nuts are all rich sources.  I don't know about you, but I'll pass on the organs and focus on the Brazil nuts & seafood.  That multivitamin isn't looking so bad now compared to kidneys & liver!