{"id":30365,"date":"2025-02-25T04:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30365"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:41:16","slug":"selenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/selenium\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts About Selenium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Selenium Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Medical experts have linked cases of sudden hair loss affecting 279 people in Maharashtra&#8217;s Buldhana district to high selenium content found in wheat supplied through local ration shops from Punjab and Haryana.<\/p>\n<h2>About Selenium<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>trace mineral,<\/strong> which means that the body only needs a small amount of it.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>mineral found<\/strong> in the soil and <strong>naturally appears in water and some foods.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Soil and ground water contain <strong>inorganic forms of selenium<\/strong> that plants accumulate and convert to organic forms, mostly selenomethionine and selenocysteine and their methylated derivatives.<\/li>\n<li>Selenium is a constituent of 25 selenoproteins, including thioredoxin reductases, glutathione peroxidases, and selenoprotein P.<\/li>\n<li>Human body<strong>can\u2019t produce Selenium<\/strong> on its own. You have to get it through diet.<\/li>\n<li>The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of Selenium for adult men and women 19+ years of age is 55 micrograms daily. Women who are pregnant and lactating need about 60 and 70 micrograms daily, respectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food Sources of Selenium:<\/strong> Protein foods from animals are generally good sources of selenium. <strong>Seafood, organ meats, and Brazil nuts<\/strong> are the foods highest in selenium<\/li>\n<li><strong>Health benefits:<\/strong> Selenoproteins play critical roles in <strong>thyroid hormone metabolism, DNA synthesis<\/strong>, reproduction, and protection from oxidative damage and infection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Selenium FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is the main function of selenium?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It help to make DNA and protect against cell damage and infections;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> Where is selenium found naturally?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It occurs naturally in Earth&#8217;s crust, its presence in air, water, and soil<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/buldhana-hair-loss-cases-expert-report-blames-high-selenium-in-wheat\/article69260787.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selenium  is a trace mineral, which means that the body only needs a small amount of it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}