So today we're going to talk about sea moss you probably heard about sea moss it's all over social media what actually is it well seek kelp in sea moss are types of seaweed which are basically plants that can grow underneath the water and when you look at c moss versus C kelp they're fairly similar in what's in them as far as overall nutrition content people are using seos on their skin uh to take it internally to help their digestive system to help their inflammation and people are getting all sorts of benefits from this from increasing their testosterone increasing the overall health let me first state that Coss has a number of things that people talk about it has amino acids that's a type of protein it has fiber it has vitamins it has minerals fatty acids phytonutrients and the list goes on and on and on and on now of course if you look at the protein the amino acids it doesn't compare to a steak or animal protein what does stand out with sea moss and other types of seelp is the minerals especially the trace minerals trace minerals are those minerals that are needed in very very small amounts but are very very necessary and you're not going to find a lot of these trace minerals in Foods unless you're close to the ocean now what is the purpose of trace minerals anyway well one of the purposes for human health for TR trace minerals is that they help to activate enzymes and certain other proteins that do the work of the Body for example there is an enzyme that helps you convert from T4 the inactive version of the thyroid hormone to T3 the active form of the thyroid hormone and that enzyme is dependent on selenium well guess what where you going to get selenium you can get in Brazil nuts but it's not necessarily in other nuts of any significant amount and uh you know what do we have to eat we have to eat shellfish or seafood or seaweed or like sea moss to get this selenium selenium not only helps you with the thyroid selenium is necessary for certain proteins to help you detoxify Mercury selenium is necessary for your immune system okay like if you don't have enough selenium you cannot create the te helper cells T helper cells are like the general of the army for your immune system they help control and coordinate all the other immune cells in the attack against viruses and cancer and any other type of pathogenic Invasion and so the problem is it's hard to get these trace minerals especially selenium from food unless you eat something from the sea iodine is also necessary for the thyroid and so without iodine you can't make the thyroid hormones but iodine is also really really important to help regulate estrogen and this is why when women are deficient in iodine they might get breast cancer or ovarian csts Japanese women are much less at risk of getting breast cancer and I really think it's because the Japanese as a culture consumes 25 times more iodine than the US so I really think a lot of the benefits from seos uh are coming because finally the person is being satisfied with the trace minerals which they've been missing now it is true that sea moss has kagin in and any seaweed that has red in it is going to have some kagene in there's a really big difference in eating kagene that is naturally in sea moss versus kinan that they add to your you know almond milk things like that so sea moss and even sea CP is a great product not only to help get the trace minerals which I think is the number one benefit but also some of these other phytonutrients that create some health benefits that extend Way Beyond just your normal vitamins and minerals now since we're on the topic of trace minerals there's a lot more to be said about that if you haven't seen this video check it out