The phrase "a high selenium diet" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing dietary choices or nutritional recommendations that involve selenium content.
Example: "For optimal health, consider incorporating a high selenium diet, which includes foods like Brazil nuts and seafood."
Alternatives: "a selenium-rich diet" or "a diet high in selenium".
Mice lacking the protein have male infertility and brain injury; conversely, a high-selenium diet prevents brain injury.
Research has shown that the brain has a unique feature in selenium metabolism by storing selenium so that GP-x activity in the brain does not decrease as fast as in the liver after a low selenium diet [ 6, 7].
Lowered levels of OPN in tumors of mice fed with high selenium in their diet suggest that this gene might have a role in the selenium-induced inhibition of mammary growth.
A 2013 study found heightened selenium concentrations downstream of mines in the Elk Valley, and a 2014 report linked high selenium to a slew of damaging ecological consequences in the river, including malformations and reproductive failure in fish.
The study reported here shows that post-weaning supplementation with adequate levels of selenium and folate (following maternal consumption of a high-fat diet low in selenium and folate during gestation and lactation) altered metabolism-related pathways in both liver and colon.
The current literature lacks information on ruminal microbial metabolism in response to high selenium (Se) concentration in the diet.
At four weeks of age, female offspring were either weaned onto the same diet (HF-low-low), or onto a high-fat diet containing adequate selenium and folate (HF-low-suf).
Rats exposed to low selenium (0.06 ppm), regardless of MeHg exposure, required more sessions to complete the first reversal and made more omissions during this reversal than high selenium (0.6 ppm) animals, but the two diet groups did not differ on subsequent reversals.
