If you include seaweed in your diet, you can rid your body of salts of heavy metals, reduce sugar and cholesterol. Also performance will improve and skin condition. The nutritionist told Elena Solomatina in conversation with the TV channel Moscow 24.

The specialist explained that iodine is an important element for the functioning of the thyroid gland. Many people have its deficiency, which reduces efficiency, the skin becomes dry, the condition of the hair worsens.

Sea kale helps to fill the iodine deficiency. It contains a large amount of jelly-like soluble fiber, which removes salts of heavy metals, collects excess cholesterol and sugar.

Thanks to these properties of the product, the condition of the skin and hair improves, there is more energy, the doctor added.

Seaweed benefits the intestinal microflora, but with hyperthyroidism it is better to refrain from it, otherwise problems with the thyroid gland may worsen, she concluded.

Author Maxim Alexandrov

Maxim Aleksandrov – journalist, correspondent for the Pravda.ru news service

Curator Elena Andreeva

Elena Andreeva – Deputy Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “NMIC of Endocrinology” of the Ministry of Health of Russia – Director of the Institute of Reproductive Medicine