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Learn The Benefits of Selenium
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Benefit of Selenium
The trace mineral selenium is required by the body only in
small amounts. Even though Selenium is a micro mineral,
it is essential in caring out many vital functions in our bodies.
Selenium is extremely essential to our overall health and
well being. Numerous important health benefits have come
to be associated with maintaining sufficient levels of
selenium in the body.
In 1991 Dr Joel Walach was nominated for Nobel Prize. He
proposed that Selenium deficiency was the onset of cystic
fibrosis in both humans and animals. Recent research indi-
cates that this mineral can play an important role in protecting
the body from many serious disease and illness.
Benefits Of Selenium
Selenium is especially important in the body's ongoing battle
against free radical damage. In the body, selenium is the
source of selenoproteins, which are essential anti-oxidant
enzymes and are important to protecting the cells from the
damage that unchecked free radicals can do. Some research
has associated free radicals with certain types of heart
disease and cancers.
In addition to their important role in the control of free radical
damage, selenoproteins also serve to strengthen the body's
natural immune system and also helps to produce anti-bodies.
Selenium has also been found be involved in helping to keep
the thyroid functioning at peak levels. The thyroid is respon-
sible for many aspects of health, including the body's metab-
olism.
Some studies indicate that selenium can be useful in the
treatment of acne and still other research indicates that it
may be useful in repairing chromosome and DNA damage.
Selenium is essential in gene replicating. In gene replication
the DNA is always producing incorrect copies of itself. There
are certain enzymatic reaction which requires selenium in
order for the enzymes to function properly. Without available
selenium, this replicating unit shuts down and faulty DNA is
released into the system.
Selenium is thought to counteract heavy metals and other
contaminants that find their way into the body, as well as to
help in the prevention of unwanted and dangerous blood clots.
We can better understand why Cancer
and other major
diseases are so rampant here in the United states. Our soils
are depleted because they are over used without replacing
the minerals through crop rotation and deeply turning the
soil over.
Also we change the ability to absorb our minerals by our over
heating our foods during cooking. Selenium has many health
benefits. We need to maintain sufficient levels of selenium
in our bodies.
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