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Benefits Of Selenium For Heart, Cancer, Babies, Thyroid And Other.
According to the highly-recommended resource book “Prescription for Nutritional Healing” by Phyllis Bach:
“Selenium deficiency has been linked to cancer and heart disease. It has also been associated with exhaustion, growth-impairment, high-cholesterol levels, infections, liver impairment, lower cognitive function, pancreatic insufficiency, and… sterility.”
Also interesting is that Selenium is one of the essential nutrients in the function of our thyroid gland.
Beta-Carotene And Alpha-Carotene Use In Cancer Studies
Plenty of research continues to be done on cancers. Several of those studies focused on the cancer-preventive potential of Vitamin A and its precursors, Alpha-Carotene and Beta-Carotene. The latter has been studied widely as a promising chemo-preventive agent in reducing the risk of cancer in humans.
Not many people know that daily supplementation with carotenes has shown tumor reducing activities in specific cancers, such as oral cavity, head and neck, as well as colon.