Selenium: Benefits, Uses, Side Effects

KOSA Acupuncture in Gaithersburg, MD describes “FOOD BEHIND CURTAIN – SELENIUM”

What is selenium?⁽¹⁾

It is a trace element that is naturally present in many foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. What is nutritionally essential for humans, is a constituent of more than two dozen selenoproteins that play critical roles in reproduction, thyroid hormone metabolism, DNA synthesis, and protection from oxidative damage and infection.

General information by USDA⁽²⁾

Selenium Deficiency Increases Severity of Flu Virus in Mice – USDA ⁽³⁾

It is a critical part of a major antioxidant enzyme that humans and animals produce to protect delicate cellular components against damage from oxygen free radicals.

Selenium deficiency – Wikipedia⁽⁴⁾

It is also necessary for the conversion of the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4) into its more active counterpart, triiodothyronine, and as such a deficiency can cause symptoms of hypothyroidism, including extreme fatigue, mental slowing, goiter, cretinism, and recurrent miscarriage.

Cause of selenium deficiency

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Dangers of GMO and Roundup;

There are literally no minerals and iron in the above GMO, plants (crops, vegetables and fruits), which used herbicides (Roundup) and foods made with these.

Glyphosate, which is the main ingredient of Roundup makes bonds to enzymes.

Taking selenium may reduce breast cancer

KOSA Acupuncture understands that breast cancer is the indication of unhealthy stomach and liver.

According to KOSA Acupuncture’s theory, liver is in charge of muscle, sinews, vision, eyeballs, anger and reproductive organs in addition to conventional medicine’s opinion.

Therefore, selenium deficiency may cause hypothyroidism, PMS, uterine fibroids, headache, migraine, irregular menstruation, tremor, muscle spasm, diabetes, and etc. not to mention breast cancer.

Peter J Glidden, ND⁽⁵⁾ says “If every girl in this country took 200 mcg of selenium in one generation we’d eliminate breast cancer by 82 %.” (from 4 min 35 sec) in his interview, which he says “Chemotherapy is a Waste of Money”.

Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) – NIH ⁽⁶⁾

Age	Male	Female	Pregnancy	Lactation
Birth to 6 months	15 mcg*	15 mcg*
7–12 months	20 mcg*	20 mcg*
1–3 years	20 mcg	20 mcg
4–8 years	30 mcg	30 mcg
9–13 years	40 mcg	40 mcg
14–18 years	55 mcg	55 mcg	60 mcg	70 mcg
19–50 years	55 mcg	55 mcg	60 mcg	70 mcg
51+ years	55 mcg	55 mcg

*Adequate Intake (AI)

Avoid followings no matter what.

GMO – salmon, corn, soybean, alfalfa, cotton, tomato, potato, summer squash, cotton, canola, and etc.

Plants (crops, vegetables and fruits) used herbicides (glyphosate and Roundup), insecticides and pesticides

Foods from animals including dairy products and fishes raised in CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations)⁽⁷⁾

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Your body’s ability to heal is greater than anyone has permitted you to believe.

Listen to your body, which knows how to heal itself.

Numbers cannot tell you who you are.

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