Dr. Gregor calls it “one of the craziest findings” he’d ever seen.
Researchers from Brazil gave 10 men and women a single meal containing between one and eight Brazil nuts. Amazingly, compared to the control group who ate no nuts at all, just a single serving of four Brazil nuts almost immediately improved cholesterol levels. LDL - the “bad” cholesterol - levels were a staggering twenty points lower just nine hours after eating the Brazil nuts.* Even drugs don’t work that fast!
Even more amazingly, the researchers went back and measured the participant’s cholesterol levels thirty days later - and even then, their cholesterol levels stayed down!
Normally when a study like this comes out, doctors wait to see the results replicated and studied further - especially when the study is done on such a small group. But when the intervention is cheap, easy, harmless and healthy - we’re talking about 4 Brazil nuts a month - then the reasonable thing to do would be to munch on until proven otherwise.
But just a warning - Brazil nuts are REALLY high in Selenium. 4 Brazil nuts a day might get you right up to the maximum daily limit for Selenium. So 4 Brazil nuts a month - or a few now and then - and let us know what you find out!
*Colpo E, Vilanova CD, Brenner Reetz LG, et al. A single consumption of high amounts of the Brazil nuts improves lipid profile of healthy volunteers. J Nutr Metab. 2013; 2013:1-7