Pollutants (Mercury)present in Fish-Eliminated by Selenium Intake

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> Concerns about high mercury content of certain seafoods can be

> alleviated by taking 200 mcgs of Selenium on a daily basis.

>

> One of the benefits of Selenium is that it tends to flush heavy

> metals on out of the body more swiftly, eliminating any possibility

> of serious liver damage.

 

Actually, selenium is used as one of the precursors for production

of the antioxidant glutathione, and it's the glutathione that

escorts mercury from the body. It takes three molecules of

glutathione to escort one molecule of aluminum, two for mercury.

Arsenic toxicity is reduced with selenium supplementation, and

selenium toxicity is reduced with arsenic.

 

The other glutathione precursors are amino acid peptides which

contain cysteine, such as glutamylcysteine and cystine, the rate

limiting factors in glutathione production, and glutamine and

glycine.

 

What I'm saying is that all the precursors must be present for best

effect.

 

The therapeutic window for selenium is 200-600 mcg daily, but

higher doses have been studied and found to shrink tumors and

reduce both HepC and HIV viral load (at 1100 mcg daily).

 

Duncan Crow