Can Selenium Help With Hypothyroid Weight Loss?

If you’re looking to lose weight, you might have heard that selenium is a "miracle" weight loss mineral.
But in reality, just eating selenium-rich foods or taking a selenium supplement isn’t going to make you lose that stubborn weight.
It’s a little more complex, in fact. It's important to know how much selenium to take, what form is the most absorbable, and what else you can do with diet and lifestyle to have a complete weight loss regimen.
Today's video is about what the mineral selenium is and does, how it supports the thyroid and immune system, and how it can play a role (among other factors) in aiding the battle against resistant weight loss if you have Hashimoto's.
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Metagenics E-400 Selenium™Antioxidant Formula
E-400 Selenium™ provides the essential trace mineral selenium and natural-source vitamin E, an antioxidant that helps protect tissues from damage caused by free radicals.
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[@AP-nx6xo]

So helpful. Thank you. I supplement with 200 mcg selenium, 25 mg zinc , 1200 mcg B12, Vit c and d. All for hypothyroid. The biggest difference was starting selenium! It strengthened my nails and hair and the greatest part was I was finally !!! Able to get that stubborn 20 lbs off👍🏻

[@LK-fy4dd]

How long did you take selenium to notice a difference in your weight?

[@AP-nx6xo]

@@LK-fy4dd hi, I started noticing the first couple weeks I’ve always watched my diet but I kept gaining . My thyroid is now functioning so much better . Dr.Child’s videos on thyroid health are super helpful

[@LK-fy4dd]

@@AP-nx6xo Thank You

[@blackbyrdxx]

How long did you have to take selenium to see any results? Weeks or months?

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

@@blackbyrdxx with me it was the SAME DAY!! i took 2 200mg doses about 5 hrs apart. after that i was suddenly able to mow the lawn, and play 3 SETS of tennis and felt SOOO much better with no exhaustion whereas mowing the lawn would have exhausted me or 1 set of tennis wd have exhausted me. i took it with 2 drops of iodine on the tongue and 1 500mg capsule of tyrosine.

[@blackbyrdxx]

This is so informative and I’ve been searching for answers since being diagnosed

[@sheilajuenger6377]

Thank you! Good information.

[@ivaylomilov9825]

Thank you,Sara,very useful...as always🙂Honestly, it is a shame you do not live closer to us,so we can visit you for this more holistic approach.Our prescribing clinician is doing just that:prescribing higher and higher dose of Levothyroxin(my daughter is now on 100mcq and the effect is 0-even more,she said,she feels worse🤔Keep doing this good job and give us the "light" of hope with our fight with this alful condition.Thank You 🌻

[@nathaliadesouza1781]

Thank you for this

[@LeahSessions]

Just ordered the selenium!
Would be interested in a few videos that applied to POST thyroidectomy Graves/Hashimotos. (I have alternating G/H) and a total thyrodectomy in 2015.

[@nessawithsmiles]

Hi Sara.. I tried scheduling a virtual appointment with you to no avail. I’m really on the verge of just quitting eating because this is all so complicated.

[@AP-nx6xo]

Try selenium. I take 200mcg. She says you can go up to 400mcg. I take zinc 25 mg, vitaminC, B12. Don’t give up. I gained weight being hypothyroid. It was awful. Now since supplementing with levothyroxine my weight came off

[@nathaliadesouza1781]

So which 200 mg selenium should I take? That actually works well and good quality?

[@cassandraallen1923]

Can you eat Brazil nuts 🌰 instead?

[@mmk590]

Yup... only 1 or max 2

[@AP-nx6xo]

Only a couple I heard

[@AP-nx6xo]

Can selenium be taken on an empty stomach ??

[@danshee5033]

Best to eat with it.