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What is it? |
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| A MICROMINERAL
that functions in concert with VITAMIN
E and is essential to good health. It helps detox cell-scavenging
free radicals as well as heavy metals like ARSENIC,
CADMIUM,
mercury and silver. Some researchers also now believe that selenium
reduces the risk of certain cancers (although a new Harvard study
questions whether this is true). Selenium may even slow the progress of
AIDS. Although selenium deficiencies crop up in remote corners of the
world (notably the Keshan Province of China, where young boys and
pregnant women were felled by heart-muscle disorders), they are rare in
the United States. Overdoses of selenium are more likely because
health-food stores push selenium supplements (some of them nearly five
times the RDA
for women) as the key to sturdier immune systems, stronger hearts,
healthier pancreatic function, greater skin and muscle tone. In fact,
high doses of selenium (1 milligram or more a day) are extremely toxic,
causing hair and nail loss, nerve damage, skin lesions, irritability,
fatigue, diarrhea, nausea and abdominal cramps.
Deficiency Symptoms Dry and scaly facial skin, cracks at the corners of the mouth, oral inflammation.Note Many cattle and poultry feeds are FORTIFIED with selenium because the soil in some areas (and thus the grains and grass grown on them) lack this important mineral. Good Sources Brazil nuts, eggs, lean meats, seafood, legumes and whole grains.Standard Process Supplements Cataplex E, Immuplex |
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