The Healing Power of Selenium
-Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Selenium is a trace element that occurs naturally in the soil and is absorbed by plants and crops, from where it enters the human food chain directly or through consumption of meat and other products from grazing animals. Selenium is essential to a proper immune system and boosts our defences and resistance to infection. It improves male fertility and prevents miscarriage. Low levels are associated with depression and other mental disorders and high levels help prevent cancer. Deficient levels in the diet may even have played a role in the emergence of new strains of the flu virus in China