Selenium Bioavailabilty Higher From Brazil Nuts
Guys, the following report convincingly illustrates the essential benefit of taking adequate doses of Selenium in your diet to help ward off many diseases as well as a preventative for prostate cancer and for managing it should you get it.
Earlier studies have also shown that dietary selenium prevents and retards tumor development only as long as it is supplied in adequate amounts, because it is a non-accumulating trace nutrient.
See: “Who Can Help Me When I have Cancer”
The same study showed that midlife cessation of selenium supplementation resulted in a
subsequent rapid increase in the number of tumors. Therefore, selenium supplementation
must be maintained throughout the entire life span.
Another important study showed that selenium’s anti-carcinogenic activity is exerted during both the initiation and the promotion phases of carcinogenesis.
This Report By Stephen Daniells
15-Feb-2008 - Consuming only two Brazil nuts every day can raise blood selenium levels by about 65 per cent, suggests a new study from New Zealand
Results of the randomised controlled trial showed that the bioavailability of the mineral from the nuts was higher than from selenomethionine, one of the most common forms used for fortifying foods and in dietary supplements.
“Inclusion of this high-selenium food in the diet could avoid the need for fortification or supplements to improve the selenium status of New Zealanders,” wrote lead author Christine Thomson from the University of Otago.
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