Selenium-containing products and new coronavirus / Монголын Анагаах Ухаан

ABSTRACT

@#Live species with selenium deficiency are unable to produce adequate antioxidant selenoprotein to defend themselves, so the virus may turn harmful and cause additional stubborn illness. </br> The disease associated with selenium deficiency in humans became known as cardiomyopathy or Keshan disease, an area in northeastern China that endemic spread. Some of the study results on the treatment of COVID-19 patients and selenium levels in patients are similar to previous studies indicating the antiviral effects of selenium. Indeed, various cellular and viral mechanisms, including selenium and selenoprotein, affect viral pathogens, including glutathione peroxidase, which depends on selenium encoded by the virus. Such viral mechanisms affect well-operated oxidative stress associated with multiple RNA-virus infections and increase viral replication (resulting in increased mutation frequency); as with SARS-CoV-2, selenium deficiency pathogens or mortality are high.</br> Inadequate selenium deficiency has been reported in the Mongolian population. According to a 2005 year study report by the University of Otto in New Zealand and the Center for Nutrition, 57% of children aged 06–35 months in Ulaanbaatar and four aimags had low selenium consumption in plasma. In most countries, the most important sources of selenium are meat and wheat products, and the concentration of selenium in the main staples eaten by Mongolians, such as wheat and meat, was remarkably low