What is selenium and what does it do?
Selenium is a trace mineral and is important to positive health – even in small amounts. In proteins, selenium is combined to form selenoproteins, antioxidant enzymes. As you may be aware, antioxidants help prevent your body and its cells from free radicals, foreign objects that can enter your body like toxins and cigarette smoke that can cause cancer and health disease. Selenoproteins also help regular your thyroid function your immune system. Selenium can be found mainly in plant foods throughout the world. The quantity of selenium found in the soil of a plant depends on where it is grown – same with animals. As an example, scientists and researches know that the ground near North/South Dakota and Nebraska has very high concentrations of selenium. Because of this, the people living in the regions near these areas have the highest intakes of selenium reported in the United States. On the contrary, some parts of Russia and China have very low amounts of selenium – and as expected, thes
