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Selenium Deficiency
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Also known as: selenium deficiency · selenium deficit · Keshan disease · low selenium · selenium insufficiency · trace element deficiency selenium
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Selenium is a trace element. The body needs it in tiny amounts — and yet this small substance plays a decisive role in how well you can defend yourself against attack. Biochemically, selenium is a building block for enzymes that neutralise oxidative stress. It belongs to the inner protection system of your cells. Without enough of it, your cells become more vulnerable, your thyroid slows down, your immune system loses precision.
Lab values are clear when they are clear. But the question BodySignal asks goes beneath the values. Why does your body, specifically, store too little of the very substance that protects it from threats? Why this deficiency — and not another?
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