The liver is a large "selenium" bank, and the organ with the richest selenium content in human body is the liver. However, scientific research shows that patients with liver disease are generally deficient in selenium, and the more serious the condition of patients with liver disease, the lower the level of selenium in blood. A survey of 36 patients with hepatitis B in Beijing Tongren Hospital found that the selenium content of 94.4% patients was lower than the healthy level. Experts believe that the lack of selenium will destroy the antioxidant system in the body and hinder the removal of "harmful free radicals". Persistent hepatitis B is closely related to selenium deficiency.
In order to confirm the close relationship between liver disease and selenium, Professor Yu Shuyu, a famous expert from the Institute of Cancer, China Academy of Medical Sciences, went deep into the high incidence area of liver disease 16 and observed the residents of Qidong130,000 in Jiangsu. The results show that selenium supplementation can reduce hepatitis patients by 35%, while liver cancer patients with long-term selenium supplementation, especially those with family history, can be reduced by half. Professor Chen Junshi, a famous authoritative expert on food nutrition and safety in China, said that selenium was used to prevent liver cancer in Qidong County, Jiangsu Province, a high incidence area of liver cancer. Because the time is short, the number of people is not too much. We have seen some signs that the incidence of liver cancer will decrease after eating selenium. In addition, it is more certain that the positive index of hepatitis B turns negative, which is what we call two and a half.
Prevention and treatment of liver disease begins with selenium supplementation;
Experts believe that patients with liver disease should be supplemented with selenium. Twenty-two patients with liver cirrhosis, including 20 patients with posthepatitic cirrhosis and 2 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, were tested for selenium supplementation in Jiuxianqiao Hospital of Beijing. All patients have different degrees of liver function damage and edema. The experiment was divided into two groups, one group was supplemented with selenium and the other group was not supplemented with selenium. It was found that the patients in the selenium product group felt that their general fatigue was improved after one week. After about two weeks, all the patients who supplemented selenium increased their appetite and reduced their fatigue. Among them, 8 cases changed from gloomy to bright, 9 cases had abdominal distension reduced, 6 cases had insomnia improved, and 8 cases had abdominal circumference reduced to varying degrees. The reduction range was 3 cm -25 cm, and the average abdominal circumference was reduced by 9.2 cm.
Clinical research shows that most patients with liver diseases have significant effects of selenium supplementation:
1, selenium supplementation in patients with hepatitis A and hepatitis B can greatly improve symptoms such as loss of appetite, obvious fatigue and gloomy complexion in a short time;
2. Selenium supplementation in patients with liver diseases can alleviate liver diseases and promote hepatocyte regeneration;
3. Selenium has the function of protecting liver. Selenium supplementation can prevent the damage of chronic hepatitis to human liver and prevent liver necrosis.
4. Selenium supplementation can prevent liver fibrosis and prevent patients with liver diseases from getting worse and worse;
5. Selenium supplementation can improve the immunity of patients with liver disease, thus avoiding the recurrence of liver disease;
6. Selenium supplementation in healthy people can also reduce the incidence of hepatitis A, hepatitis B and liver cancer.
Why selenium can effectively prevent and treat liver diseases? Clinical research shows that there are three main reasons why selenium can prevent and treat liver diseases.
First, regulate immunity: patients with liver disease often have fatigue and poor sleep. In fact, these are all made up of
It is induced by low immunity, and low immunity directly leads to the decline of the body's ability to identify and inhibit viruses. Its most obvious performance is that it is difficult to completely remove the virus in the body and the disease recurs. The reason is that the body shows "immune tolerance" to hepatitis B virus, and its immune function does not attack or destroy hepatitis B virus, but simply "endures". Therefore, the key to control liver disease is to enhance immune function, break the body's existing immune tolerance, make immune function come in handy, attack and inhibit viruses. Selenium is a powerful immunomodulator. Almost every immune cell in human body contains selenium. Selenium supplementation can effectively regulate human immune function, improve various symptoms of patients with liver disease and prevent the recurrence and aggravation of liver disease.
The First Affiliated Hospital of Bethune Medical University used selenium to treat viral hepatitis (compared with 43 patients with various liver diseases). There are 47 patients, including 65,438+04 patients with acute viral hepatitis, 65,438+08 patients with chronic active hepatitis, 5 patients with chronic persistent hepatitis, 5 patients with chronic severe hepatitis and 3 patients with posthepatitic cirrhosis. The treatment group was treated with selenium tablets and vitamins. The control group did not use selenium and vitamin E, but used enzyme-lowering drugs, specifically Yiganling, Compound Yiganling and Hugan Tablet.
Treatment results:
15 days, jaundice subsided within 30 days, and ALT recovered within 30 days.
There were 47 patients in the treatment group (25 cases of jaundice), 14 cases.
20 cases (56%)
36 cases (80%)
77%
The control group consisted of 43 people (jaundice 2 1 case) and 4 cases.
19% 12 cases.
57. 1%, 22 cases.
5 1%
Conclusion: the curative effect of selenium treatment group is obviously better than that of control group. (Note: alanine aminotransferase)
2. Prevention of liver fibrosis: The development of liver disease has the saying of "hepatitis-cirrhosis-liver cancer trilogy", so patients with liver disease must prevent liver disease from developing towards cirrhosis and liver cancer. At present, clinical experts have the following understanding: to treat chronic hepatitis, we must resist liver fibrosis while resisting virus, because liver fibrosis is almost the only way for chronic liver disease to transform into cirrhosis and liver cancer, and blocking the occurrence and development of liver fibrosis is of great significance to prevent and treat cirrhosis. Hans, a world-famous authoritative expert on liver disease, once pointed out that "whoever can prevent or delay the occurrence of liver fibrosis can cure most chronic liver diseases." In addition, anti-hepatic fibrosis is also one of the most economical and effective methods to prevent liver disease from transforming into liver cancer. Scientific research shows that selenium, as an important component of antioxidant protection system in vivo, can block the damage of harmful free radicals to liver cells, thus protecting liver cells, Cooper cells and hepatic stellate cells. Therefore, selenium supplementation in patients with liver disease can achieve the purpose of blocking liver fibrosis and preventing cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Third, anti-virus: Modern medicine believes that the chief culprit of liver disease is hepatitis B virus in the body, and the recurrence and aggravation of liver disease have a lot to do with virus variation. About 70% of hepatitis patients in China have virus variation, such as "small three-positive" combined with positive viral DNA, and liver function tests fluctuate repeatedly, mainly caused by hepatitis B virus variation. Professor Chen Junshi, a famous authoritative expert on food nutrition and safety in China, said that selenium is the only nutrient that has a certain direct relationship with virus infection, and Dr. Taylor, a world-famous virologist from the University of Georgia in the United States, also suggested that selenium is closely related to virus. For example, there is a selenium-containing enzyme in hepatitis virus and myocarditis virus. If the human body lacks selenium, the virus will mutate, and the virus will become more vicious, thus making the patient's condition more and more serious. Therefore, selenium supplementation in patients with liver disease is beneficial to block virus variation, control the disease and prevent the aggravation and recurrence of liver disease.
In addition, liver disease is a chronic disease, and patients often need long-term medication. However, many drugs must be detoxified through the liver. Excessive medication will increase the burden on the liver, but it is not good for liver disease. In addition, many drugs have side effects, such as interferon, which is the most commonly used antiviral drug to treat hepatitis B, but many adverse reactions have been found in clinical application, such as fever, headache and nausea. And interferon is also very expensive, which will make some patients stop treatment because they can't afford the financial burden. However, the trace element selenium is not a drug, and it will not have any side effects on the human body in moderate amount, and the price is not expensive, so it is suitable for patients with liver disease to take it for a long time. Wang Xi Capsule is recommended, its main component is nano-selenium, which is safe and efficient, and selenium supplementation is convenient and safe.
Experts generally believe that selenium has no doubt about the maintenance of the liver. Patients with liver disease can improve their own selenium level by supplementing selenium, thus enhancing the function of liver cells, regulating autoimmune and anti-inflammation, which is conducive to the elimination of hepatitis symptoms and reducing the canceration rate of hepatitis. So some people say that selenium is the natural enemy of liver disease.