Selenium

Articul: 1150

100 tablets

 According to the Nutritional Institute of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences 80% of the population suffer from the lack of selenium.

The well-known American cardiologist doctor Atkins said about selenium: “The substance, which is able to reduce the cancer sickness rate by almost 40% and to decrease mortality from cancer to 50%, should be announced to be a bursting in medicine and distributed all over the world.” It was ascertained that lung, rectum and cervix of the uterus cancer sickness rate is much lower in the regions with high content of selenium in soils.

Selenium makes its own invisible job in the most different parts of human body being a component of great number of proteins, liposacharides and enzymes.

If there is a lack of selenium in the body, there is also a lack of glutathione-peroxidase – a powerful antioxidant, and therefore the risk of development of atherosclerosis, atrophic arthritis, cataract, colitis and psoriasis increases drastically.

Intake of selenium is essential for cardiac arrhythmia and for prevention of sudden death from cardio-vascular disorders. It was found that the risk of coronary heart disease is up to 70% higher in people with low levels of selenium in their blood. Selenium protects the heart due to the production of glutathione-peroxidase and the limitation of toxic metal content in the body, such as cadmium, mercury, platinum and lead, which may damage heart tissues. It binds them together and makes them inert and harmless.

Selenium strengthens the body’s protection from viruses and other pathogenic factors. Experiments show a noticeable change of immune system elements: leucocytes, lymphocytes, antibodies, macrophages and interferons. At insufficient levels of selenium in the body, people suffer from the more painful surge of influenza.

Selenium is needed for the thyroid gland, as it influences the enzyme, which activates the main thyroid hormone (T4). It also protects the thyroid gland from harmful effect of free radicals, which may cause hypothyroidism.

Lately another value of selenium was demonstrated – containing platinum it decreases toxicity of chemotherapeutic agents..

Selenium produces antioxidant effects, slows the aging processes, and helps to support skin elasticity. Low level of selenium was found in asthmatics. The researches of New Zealand inhabitants, where the soils lack selenium, have shown that people with low level of glutathione-peroxidase suffer from asthma 6 times more often than others.

Together with folic acid and zinc – selenium is essential for the prevention of cases of children born with underdeveloped vertebral column as a result of neuraxis development defect. Such infants and their mothers usually have lower levels of selenium than healthy people do. Pregnant women who lack selenium have a higher probability of miscarriages, and newborn children suffer from muscle weakness.

Composition: selenium (aminochelate), other ingredients.