Selenium Supplements Or Brazil Nuts: Which Is Better?
Is your selenium supplement making the grade? Or could we be overlooking the power of...
Written by: Pippa Thackeray
Written on: July 20, 2025
Pippa is a content writer and qualified Nutritional Therapist (DipNT) creating research-based content with a passion for many areas of wellbeing, including hormonal health, mental health and digestive health.
As a contributor to The Healf Source, she regularly attends seminars and programmes on a plethora of contemporary health issues and modern research insights with a drive to never stop learning. In addition, interviewing experts and specialists across The Four Pillars: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP.
In her spare time, she is an avid swimmer, mindfulness and yoga lover, occasionally bringing a raw, honest approach to the topics she faces. You may also discover some personal accounts of eye-opening wellbeing experiences amidst the reality of a disorientating, and often conflicting, modern wellbeing space.
- 1. Selenium and the body: why do we need this essential nutrient?
- 2. Is selenium deficiency a widespread issue?
- 3. Are plant-based diets lower in selenium?
- 4. Is meat high in selenium?
- 5. What does the research say about selenium in Brazil nuts?
- 6. Key learnings from the research
- 7. Is there still a case for Brazil nuts?
- 8. Brazil nuts: a closer look
- 9. Brazil nuts: the 'Pros'
- 10. Brazil nuts: the 'Cons'
- 11. The takeaways
- 12. Putting selenium in your supplement stack?
