Which element helps reduce the risk of chronic arsenic toxicity?
Selenium. Smits and colleagues demonstrated low blood selenium increases the risk of arsenic-induced health problems through a randomized, double-blind, placebo-control trial in Bangladesh. Participants chronically exposed to arsenic were enrolled and separated into two groups, one which consumed selenium-rich lentils and the control group received low selenium lentils. Consuming selenium-rich lentils can increase arsenic excretion (p=0.001) and improve the health indicators, such as body mass index and incidence of asthma and allergy, in the presence of continued arsenic exposure.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31299617/
Submitted by Mary O’Keefe, PharmD on behalf of the Acute and Intensive Care Section