Selenium
Selenium
Jake Ames, MD, HMD
Selenium
is such an important mineral that I have 100% of my patients supplementing with
it. At least over one billion people worldwide
are low on it. Most people need to take
it as a supplement, because of all the heavy metals we are exposed to.
I use it
on my patients to detoxify mercury, cadmium, arsenic, antimony and
thallium.
It
prevents most cancers, helps protect you from infectious diseases, and helps
your thyroid gland make thyroid hormone.
It is a very powerful antioxidant, and its antioxidant effects increase
when combined with vitamin E. I only
prescribe Unique E, 400 IU a day with 2 teaspoons of fat.
The
minimum daily recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for selenium is 55 micrograms
(mcg) for adults. I consider this dose
way too low. The average adult is so
toxic with heavy metals these days, that I put them on 400 mcg a day of
methylselenocysteine, which is a safer form of selenium. I use higher doses on people with cancer or
severe heavy metal poisonings.
Selenium
acts like a birth control pill for viruses.
It helps to prevent viral replication.
It should be used in all viral infections. I use it to prevent herpes outbreaks, usually
at a dose of 400-600 mcg a day, as well as L-Lysine 3,000 mg a day, and vitamin
C 1,000 mg three time a day. During an
outbreak, I increase selenium to 800 mcg a day, L-Lysine to 6,000 mg a day and
increase vitamin C until bowel tolerance (just shy of diarrhea).
Selenium
slows the progression of an HIV positive person going into AIDS.
I use
selenium in treating Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Graves’ disease. I also take these people 100% off gluten,
detoxify them of mercury, and put them on lithium orotate 20 mg a day, or more
for Graves’ disease. Lugol’s iodine helps
most of the time in both diseases.
Rarely Lugol’s iodine can worsen these diseases if one is low on
selenium.
Natural
food sources that are high in selenium include Brazil nuts, sardines, salmon,
tuna, predatory fish, liver, organic eggs, and mushrooms. Tuna and other predatory fish contain
mercury, but most of the mercury is bound to selenium. I advise all of my patients to just
supplement with methylselenocysteine. It
looks like we also need sodium selenite and selenomethionine. I like to use all three types together in
many of my patients.
Selenium
forms selenoproteins (proteins containing selenium) that influence our immune
system, thyroid gland and other glands and tissues. Optimal doses of selenium will protect us
from mercury. Selenium binds to mercury forming selenide which makes mercury
harmless.
Chronic
mercury exposure is one cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Selenium at optimal doses will help protect
you from Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, hypothyroidism, viral infections, and
heart attacks. This is one mineral that
you need to be supplementing.
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