Selenium
Jan 12, 2022
3 minutes
Words DR KAREN BRIDGMAN
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While selenium was known to be an important nutrient in agriculture, the biological role of selenium was only discovered in 1990, and since then there has been accumulating evidence for its importance in human health.
Selenium is an essential trace element but has the potential to be toxic at high doses, with a relatively narrow therapeutic window â a factor of only eight times the dose separating out a therapeutic dose from a potentially toxic one. The correct dose is therefore an important
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