SELENOMED diagnostics for your health Home Selenium Products Contact Language: About us selenOmed GmbH is a newly founded company, located in Berlin, dedicated to supporting research in the role of selenium in medicine, and to enabling selenium status asessment in health and disease. To this end, selenOmed GmbH offers counselling, products and services related to selenium status analysis, selenium supplementation and monitoring. Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Privacy Imprint GTC © selenOmed GmbH 2021

SELENOMED diagnostics for your health Home Selenium Products Contact Language: Contact selenOmed GmbH Yorckstraße 71 10965 Berlin Germany Dr. Petra Seemann CEO phone: +49 (0) 179 5034279 Click here to send email Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Privacy Imprint GTC © selenOmed GmbH 2021

SELENOMED diagnostics for your health Home Selenium Products Contact Language: Selenium Selenium is an essential trace mineral needed for a long and healthy life. It was discovered 200 years ago by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius and named after the Greek goddess of the moon, Selene. Today, selenium is known as the reactive atom in the rare amino acid selenocysteine, that forms the central core of important protective selenoenzymes. However, the dietary intake of selenium is not always sufficient for full selenoenzyme biosynthesis, conferring an increased and avoidable risk for certain diseases. Clinical research has indicated that a suboptimal selenium status increases the risk for most major diseases including cancer at several sites (colorectal, prostate, liver), autoimmune and metabolic diseases. The evidence for a medical benefit of selenium supplementation to diseased patients is not as well understood as the evidence linking a selenium deficit to disease risks. References Selenium: Its Molecular Biology and Role in Human Health, Fourth Edition, Springer Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Privacy Imprint GTC © selenOmed GmbH 2021