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Selenium deficiency? Big trouble!
Selenium deficiency creeps up on you. No acute signal, no clear symptom. Until it is too late to ignore.
Selenium deficiency creeps up on you. No acute signal, no clear symptom. Until it is too late to ignore.
The Health Council of the Netherlands knows it. Officially, since December 2024. A large part of the Dutch population has a selenium deficiency.
Their advice: more research is needed. Meanwhile, that deficiency has been creeping through your body for years. Unnoticed. Without a clear signal. Until it is too late to ignore.
Dutch soil is naturally low in selenium. This is not a new problem; it has been around for a long time. But intensive agriculture has made it worse.
Synthetic fertilizers feed plants with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Not with trace elements like selenium. Pesticides kill the microorganisms that make selenium available to plants. Erosion destroys the fertile topsoil where minerals are stored.
The result: crops that look good but contain almost no selenium. And meat and dairy from animals fed selenium-poor feed are no solution either.
So you can eat a varied diet, choose organic, do everything right, and still structurally not get enough selenium. Not because of your choices. Because of the system.
Selenium is not a side issue. It is involved in processes that determine your long-term health.
Selenium supports the immune system, protects cells against oxidative stress, is essential for a well-functioning thyroid, and plays a crucial role in heart health. Research from the University Medical Center Groningen shows that 70% of heart failure patients have a selenium deficiency.
A deficiency remains unnoticed for a long time. There is no acute signal, no clear symptom at first. What you do notice: reduced resistance, fatigue, weakened thyroid function, faster aging. Things you also attribute to other causes.
That is exactly why selenium deficiency is so dangerous. It creeps up on you.
In August 2024, The Lancet published a large-scale study on micronutrient deficiencies worldwide. The figures are sobering.
Globally, 68% of the population has an iodine deficiency, 67% a vitamin E deficiency, 66% not enough calcium, and 65% an iron deficiency. Selenium is on that same list.
These are not deficiencies in developing countries. These are deficiencies in a world that eats enough but does not absorb the right things.
Selenium deficiency affects everyone, but the elderly the hardest. The ability to absorb minerals decreases with age. The elderly often eat less varied diets. And over the years, the body actually needs more antioxidants, not fewer.
While the need increases, absorption decreases.
In December 2024, the Health Council issued an advisory report on selenium. The conclusion: there is indeed a problem. But more research is needed.
Monitor. More research. Wait.
Meanwhile, that same Health Council acknowledged in the report that the shift toward a more plant-based diet—which they themselves encourage in the new Dutch food guidelines—can lead to people getting less selenium. It is not the depleted soil that is blamed. It is your healthy diet.
That is the world turned upside down.
Isolated selenium supplements are an option, but they do not work optimally without cofactors. Selenium needs other trace elements to be properly absorbed and utilized.
Fulvic acid contains selenium as part of a full spectrum of minerals in the organic form that the body recognizes and can absorb. Not as an isolated supplement, but as part of the foundation that is missing from our diet.
Not just another supplement. The missing link.
Related blogs:
→ Nearly half of the elderly have a selenium deficiency
→ Selenium deficiency as a cause of heart failure
→ What used to be in the soil and has now disappeared.
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