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Selenium and Cancer
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Summary: Selenium and cancer are linked in ways not usually mentioned by traditional doctors. Selenium may be helpful when treating cancer. Selenium is falsely connected to an increase in prostate cancer and Type 2 Diabetes.
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Selenium and Cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) SELECT study
(Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial), in men taking selenium and vitamin E alone or
together for an average of five years, there is an increased
risk for prostate cancer.
Selenium is needed to form glutathione, which is the
backbone of life in all cells in your body and extremely important for the liver to use to detoxify your body. Adequate cellular
glutathione is required to keep cells healthy and is
required for immune system competence. Vitamin E and selenium work
synergistically to support immunity, antioxidant defense systems, and
cancer prevention.
The form of selenium used in the SELECT study was l-selenomethionine at
a dose of 200 mcg. This form of the nutrient is fine although the dose
of the nutrient may have needed to be three or four times the amount
tested. The study should have had various selenium dosage groups.
But if the form of the nutrient is fine, then why didn't the dose given
seem to do anything useful? Researchers should control for drug variables that would obviously influence the outcome
of a selenium study. Scientists know enough about selenium
biochemistry to understand the possible effects of use with medications.
A study group of 35,000
men at an age where they are at risk for prostate cancer are also at an age where the number one medication prescribed is statins such as Lipitor. Unfortunately, it is the number one
drug that directly interferes with the metabolism of selenium. The researchers did not account for this variable and
should have divided the selenium-taking men
into those taking statins (at various dosages) and those not taking
statins. The higher the dose of
statin, the greater the suppression of selenium-containing antioxidant
enzymes will be.
As cholesterol is synthesized the body, it produces selenium containing enzymes that form
glutathione. Statin drugs block cholesterol
synthesisis and that prevents the selenium-containing antioxidant
system to be formed resulting in an abundance of oxidation in the body.
If the SELECT study were to break down the
selenium-taking men according to statin dose, those not on any statins would be likely to have a
reduction in prostate cancer. Those taking statins would not have
benefit, as the statin drug would
block the benefits of selenium. Furthermore, it is far more likely that
statins, which damage muscle and nerves as undesirable side effects and
thus induce insulin resistance, are the most likely cause of an increase
in any potential diabetes risk, not selenium.
This analysis will not take place as the purpose of this study and many like it is to diminish natural products so a dependence on pharmaceutical medications is assured. Bad for business.
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