Selenium 50mcg - 90 Tabs

Selenium: A Powerful Antioxidant Mineral

This is the antioxidant mineral that works with vitamin E to fight free radicals.Selenium and vitamin E act together to produce the antibodies which are important for protecting the body from infections. As a trace mineral Selenium helps promote normal growth, fertility and detoxification, as well as helping to slow aging. It is believed to be an anti-aging vitamin because as an antioxidant it protects the body against environmental pollutants other substances that and lead to aging.

Selenium works as an antioxidant, helping to prevent free radical damage. Antioxidants have been clinically proven to scavenge free radicals and prevent damage to cellular structures throughout the human body. Preserving cell health is actively being researched for its relationship to improved longevity, health and well-being.

Selenium's antioxidant properties also supports healthy cell growth, which can result from free radicals damaging cellular genetic material. Selenium regulates fat metabolism by controlling the production of thyroid hormone. Selenium supplementation is particularly important for men because selenium concentrates in the testicles and is lost through seminal fluid. Selenium, vitamin E and zinc have been shown to reduce prostate inflammation. Selenium has been used to treat many conditions including male infertility, asthma, arthritis, cataracts, AIDS, hypothyroidism, alcoholic cirrhosis and high blood pressure.

What are Free Radicals?
Free radicals are highly reactive and unstable compounds created in the body during normal metabolic functions and also from our environment and unhealthy lifestyle choices. They react with certain chemicals in the body and interfere with cells ability to function optimally.

When a free radical enters your body, it is attracted to the cells that make up the different tissues of it just like a magnet to metal. It then bonds to parts of the cell, which causes it to deteriorate in a way similar to that which oxygen causes metal to rust. If the cell gets damaged enough, it dies. Worse yet, if the cell DNA is damaged and then the cell reproduces, it reproduces abnormally as a result. When this happens to our skin, we get wrinkles; when it happens to our oxygen carrying blood vessels, we get hardening of the arteries; when it happens to our joints, we get arthritis; in some people - if it happens enough - they may even get unhealthy cell growths.

Antioxidants work by bonding with the free radical before it can bond to the cells of your body, thus neutralizing it. This now harmless substance is then deconstructed or merely excreted.

Selenium Rich Foods include: Brazil nuts, brewer's yeast, broccoli, brown rice, chicken, dairy products, dulse, garlic, salmon, kelp, tuna, wheat germ.