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Selenium deficiency occurs when an organism lacks the required levels of selenium, a critical nutrient in many species.Deficiency, although relatively rare in healthy well-nourished individuals, [1] can have significant negative results, [2] affecting the health of the heart and the nervous system; contributing to depression, anxiety, and dementia; and interfering with reproduction and gestation.
Selenium is a nutrient that is naturally present in many foods, added to others and is also available as a dietary supplement in pill, powder and liquid form, explains Perri Halperin, a ...
Nutritional Muscular Dystrophy (Nutritional Myopathy or White Muscle Disease) is a disease caused by a deficiency of selenium and vitamin E in dietary intake. [1] Soils that contains low levels of selenium produce forages and grains that are deficient in selenium.
Selenium deficiency, defined by low (<60% of normal) selenoenzyme activity levels in brain and endocrine tissues, occurs only when a low selenium level is linked with additional stress, such as high exposures to mercury [150] or increased oxidant stress from vitamin E deficiency.
Focusing on vitamin D and selenium-rich foods is a great first step to help mitigate the symptoms of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Still, Naor recommends taking a holistic approach to managing the ...
Selenium is also important for the production of thyroid ... a severe deficiency in folate can result in a condition called folate-deficiency anemia, which has symptoms like hair thinning and ...
Selenium deficiency Keshan disease is a congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of Coxsackievirus , named after Keshan County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted.
Selenium deficiency: Significant negative results, [29] affecting the health of the heart, Keshan disease and the nervous system; contributing to depression, anxiety, and dementia; and interfering with reproduction and gestation. People dependent on food grown from selenium-deficient soil may be at risk for deficiency. [30] Sodium deficiency