Research
Micronutrients & recovery
In conditions of limited selenium supply, intestinal bacteria compete with the host for selenium, reducing host selenoprotein levels by two to three times.
If you have low selenium levels, be aware that your gut bacteria may compete for it. Ensuring adequate selenium intake through diet or supplementation can help maintain your own selenoprotein levels.
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Intestinal bacteria can remove selenium from the host resulting in two to three times lower levels of host’s selenoproteins under selenium-limiting conditions.
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Based on experimental studies cited in the review.
Source
Selenium in Human Health and Gut Microflora: Bioavailability of Selenocompounds and Relationship With Diseases
Rannapaula Lawrynhuk Urbano Ferreira et al. · Frontiers in Nutrition · 2021
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