Heart Disease and selenium

By Amanda Nally Books 17/08/2021

Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of distinct illnesses with distinct causes – which broadly split into three groups – at least two of those affected by selenium. New Zealand’s mortality rate for heart disease was 18 percent higher than the OECD average in 2013 – higher than Australia, higher than the UK, higher than Canada – even higher than the USA. Indeed, among the eight OECD countries with higher rates of heart disease than New Zealand are Estonia, Czech Republic, Hungary and the Slovak Republic). We’ve already looked at the relationship stress has to mental illness, it also plays a recognisable role in heart disease where a particular form, cardiomyopathy, has been linked around the world to low selenium.

In chapter nine of Just Cause and Effect – selenium deficiency in New Zealand we once more unpick the statistics and examine the international studies showing the relationship between higher dietary selenium levels and heart disease. If you only read one book this year, this is the one.

Heart Disease and selenium

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