Daily staples
Selenium.
The trace mineral Brazil nuts are known for, in one small, precisely measured daily tablet. Selenium has a narrow safe range, so stay under 400 mcg a day from all sources.
Recommended for you.
Essential Oils
Pink Grapefruit
Organically produced pink grapefruit, cold-pressed from the rind in Mexico: so bright and crisp it fairly sparkles, the most energizing of all the citrus oils.
$12.00
Pantry
Açaí & Maqui Berry Powder
Freeze-dried açaí from the Amazon floodplain and maqui from Patagonia, ground together into a near-black purple powder: tart, faintly grape-dark, and made for smoothie bowls and yo
$24.00
Essential Oils
Zdravetz CO2, 10% Dilution
Organically produced Bulgarian zdravetz CO2, diluted to 10 percent in organic jojoba for ease of use: sweet, woody and herbal with a touch of spice, a fixative for lighter notes.
$12.00
Pantry
Marine Collagen Peptides
Hydrolyzed collagen from the skin of wild-caught white fish: nearly odorless, startlingly fine, and gone into cold water within a minute.
$34.00
Bottles, Jars, and Blending Accessories
Essential Oil Bottle Key (Bottle Opener)
The apothecary's church key: a small tool that lifts orifice reducers, pops out roller balls and eases off sample vial stoppers, then helps press them all back into place.
$4.99
Aromatherapy Blends
Emotional Trauma Blend
Petitgrain, nerolina, sweet and bitter orange and angelica root: a soft, comforting blend for the hardest days, kept close in a diffuser, a personal inhaler or aromatherapy jewelry
$9.99
Daily staples
Selenium
The trace mineral Brazil nuts are known for, in one small, precisely measured daily tablet.
$15.00
Carrier Oils
Amaranth Seed CO2 Extract
A light yellow oil CO2-extracted from amaranth seeds in Germany, rich in omega-6 and remarkably quick to absorb, for mature skin and for skin left dry by winter weather.
$18.00
Options and costs for your address, before you pay
About this product
Crack open a single Brazil nut and you hold nearly a week's measure of selenium. A handful is not always practical, though, and the nuts can vary tenfold in strength depending on where the tree grew. Hence this small, modest tablet: matte, beige and easy to mistake for chalk.
Selenium was only confirmed as essential to human health in the middle of the last century, later than most minerals on this shelf, and the body builds enzymes specifically to use it. Soil selenium varies enormously by region, which is how the deep-rooted Brazil nut tree, drawing from rich Amazonian ground, became the mineral's unlikely mascot.
Selenium also has a narrower safe range than most minerals; here, more is not better. Each tablet is measured precisely, so you are not left to the guesswork of a handful of nuts.
Details
- Form: small tablet, measured precisely
- Daily amount: one tablet
- Upper limit: under 400 mcg a day from all sources
How to use
Take one tablet daily. On days you also eat Brazil nuts, consider skipping the tablet, since the two add up quickly, and keep your total under 400 mcg a day from all sources.
A small mineral, easily overlooked; keep it with your morning routine.
Story preview
Tap to flip through the photos and the key points.
Selenium
You might also like
You may also enjoy.
Picking up where you left off