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Helps to reduce the incidence of many diseases associated with aging.

The recommended use of selenium is in micrograms � namely 200mcg per day. But a book could be written about the health benefits of its microscopic quantities. Here from The Doctors� Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia is a sampling of what it does to inhibit aging:
�Selenium can have inhibitory effects on all of the major hypothesized aging mechanisms�playing a very important role in helping to reduce the incidence of many diseases associated with aging appears certain.

�If there are micronutrients that can help beat the present �life span barrier,� selenium has to be accounted one of the prime contenders.� One way selenium may help you to beat your �life span barrier� is its function in reducing human risks of colon, lung and prostate cancer. At Indiana University, researchers found that selenium prompts human cells with damaged DNA to activate a protein called Ref-1. Repair of Ref-1 doubles the repair of damaged DNA in prostate cells -- a key requirement in preventing cancer, and avoiding its resultant damage and death. The details of this action are far too technical to explain in less than a few thousand words. But this is the essential idea: Cancer originates when DNA damage accumulates and results in cancer-causing mutations, and selenium prevents the disease by repairing the damage.

The story of selenium begins with the famous study of Larry Clark 20 years ago, when he found that just 200 micrograms of selenium per day reduced the risks of prostate cancer by 40%.

Since then, study has followed study, all confirming Clark�s original results. For example, a Harvard study reported in 1998 that men on selenium had 1/3 the prostate cancer compared with men on a placebo. Another study reported in 2005 that selenium sensitizes prostate cancer cells and overcomes their ability to resist programmed cell death.

Selenium�s anti-cancer actions are clearly enormous, but what is almost as interesting about this mineral is how it increases the anticancer actions of gamma/alpha vitamin E. The alpha component of vitamin E neutralizes existing free radicals. The gamma component of vitamin E prevents the formation of free radicals. Selenium increases the effectiveness of both tocopherols. When it hooks up with just one molecule of vitamin E, it can protect 1,000 molecules of a fatty acid required to build cell membranes.

Who needs to take selenium? Available selenium in the human body declines with advancing years. A Stanford University study reported that prostate cancer risks multiply four to five times in men with prostates lacking selenium.

Final note: The soils in all states other than the plains states and the southwest are selenium-deficient � the east coast states especially so.

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