Selenium can help in the struggle against HIV
Scientists assume that the chemical element selenium has positive effect on the organism of HIV positive patients.
Conclusion about the positive influence of selenium on the organism of HIV positive patients made scientists from the Miami University. During the experiment 91 HIV positive patients daily took medicines with the high content of selenium. Another 83 patients took placebo. In the beginning of the experiment selenium level in an organism of all participants of the experiment was identical.
After nine months of taking medicine medical examination has shown that the group, where patients had been taking selenium, has lower risk of virus activity, than the other one. This promising research forces to assume, that selenium medicines should be combined with the traditional therapy.
The researchers stated that selenium can be simple, inexpensive and safe addition to common HIV treatment. The mechanism of selenium influence on an organism is unknown thoroughly. According to one of the hypotheses, selenium has antioxidant properties and is able to restore the damaged cells of the immune system.