Brazil Nuts & Selenium: Are You Nuts If You Have More Than 1/Day? Putting the Toxicity Issue into Perspective
Brazil nuts & selenium: "How much is too much?" A weighty question. "Isn't it dangerous to consume Brazil nuts on a regular basis?" This is probably one of the most common questions I have been getting in relation to posts about selenium. In fact, the issue of selenosis (=toxically high selenium levels) from the intake of brazil nuts resurfaced only a couple of days ago in the comment area of one of the blogposts and since I am a lazy bast*** and unwilling to answer this question time and again, I decided to try and settle the issue once and for all by writing this post about the health hazardous effects of Brazli nuts... Well, ok - maybe they are not so health hazardous, after all Despite the fact that the evidence from human studies is not exactly extensive, the studies we do have would suggest that going nuts on brazil nuts is much safer than the hilarously high selenium content of Brazli nuts from certain regions in (you guessed it) Brazil woul...