Ingredient Spotlight: Selenium

We’ve talked about the ins and outs of trace minerals in recent months, and it’s time to spotlight a key, though often lesser-known trace mineral—Selenium.

What is Selenium

Selenium is a powerful trace mineral that is essential for optimal health. Like all trace minerals, which are also referred to as micro minerals or trace metals, selenium has a crucial impact on health and proper function and is needed in specific amounts (not too much, not too little).

Selenium’s Benefits

It supports numerous bodily functions, including cognitive function, heart health, and thyroid health. Many of selenium’s protein and enzyme components are stored in thyroid glands, and this important mineral supports thyroid hormone production and metabolism.

Antioxidant-rich selenium is also important for immune health. This powerful mineral influences cell development, protects against cell damage, and supports a healthy inflammatory response. Selenium deficiencies aren’t common, but they can lead to health challenges.

How to Get Selenium in Your Diet

Our bodies only need a small amount of selenium, but that amount is still key for proper function. The National Institutes of Health’s Recommended Daily Intake for selenium is 55 mcg for men and women.

Selenium is naturally occurring in soil, some foods, and even water. In particular, it is found in fresh, whole foods like Brazil nuts, certain fish and shellfish, beef, poultry, beans, and whole-wheat bread.

Sometimes it can be difficult to ensure your body is getting its daily dose of selenium from diet alone, depending on what you eat. Another way to incorporate it into your day is through supplements. Queue Kyäni.

Kyäni Products and Selenium

Selenium is one of dozens of valuable nutrients found in Kyäni Sunrise®, which contains 22 antioxidant superfoods, 10 essential vitamins, and over 60 minerals and trace minerals in its Ancient Sea Salt blend. With this power-packed nutrient lineup, Sunrise supports heart health, blood sugar, stress management, cognitive function, cell and immune health, and much more.

DISCLAIMER: This information relies upon scientific research on certain ingredients in Kyäni products. None of the studies examined Kyäni products specifically, and there is not necessarily a relationship between the results of these studies and any Kyäni product. Neither the studies nor the statements and products referenced here have been evaluated by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Kyäni products are not intended to, and do not, diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or mitigate any disease or condition.