California scientists discover how vitamins and minerals may prevent age-related diseases

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology ^ | May 31, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

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[decimon]

The abstract on selenium: http://www.fasebj.org/content/25/6/1793.abstract

[aruanan]

But don’t go overboard and take too much selenium.

[Free Vulcan]

Vitamins are the glue that holds it all together.

[Mortrey]

But, don’t get excited....

The “Won” is seeing to it that Codex Alimentarius is put in place, so that we will have to get prescriptions from doctors to get a vitamin.

[Mortrey]

“Obama signs legislation to make supplements and alternative health remedies illegal”

http://www.examiner.com/wellness-in-atlanta/obama-signs-legislation-to-make-supplements-and-alternative-health-remedies-illegal#ixzz1NwosjiuO

[decimon]

But don’t go overboard and take too much selenium.

I take a vitamin-mineral-whatever pill each day as a supplement. Just a supplement. I take additional vitamin D.

[TheThirdRuffian]

While I despise Obama, that’s not an appropriate comment for this forum.

[RnMomof7]

How do you know how much is the right amount?

[Renegade]

Happy to know you paid attention in Chemistry class. Public Education ?? To each his own .

[subterfuge]

Are these the Tie-dyed t-shirt wearing California scientists with the pony-tails and flip-flops?

[NavyCanDo]

How much money did they spend to prove Mom was right when she said eat your veggies.

[numberonepal]

How much money did they spend to prove Mom was right when she said eat your veggies.

Eating your veggies doesn't do all that much good these days. The soil in which the veggies are grown is depleted of minerals necessary for optimum health. In turn the meat we eat is also low in essential vitamins and minerals needed for longevity. Noah lived 900+ years. Why? Because the food he ate was chock full of vitamins and minerals. Back then a normal diet contained everything we needed to stave off aging.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Threats of violence against publically-elected officials are for liberals.

[Renegade]

Show me a threat of violence a$$hole. Overdose of Pb?? Go back to DU.

[aruanan]

You're not necessarily safe just sticking to a multi-vitamin. This happened in 2008:

Toxic Levels of Selenium in Dietary Supplements.

You can look here for toxicology facts about selenium.

As with most micronutrients, not having enough will harm you and having too much will harm you. The typical amount that is set for the RDA is more than enough to prevent the classic deficiency disease for that micronutrient. The maximum dosage is still far short, for most of them, of an amount that could cause harm, though it varies depending on the type of vitamin or mineral. The fat soluble vitamins, especially D and A, can reach toxic levels much more quickly than the water soluble vitamins, especially vitamin C, because their half-life in the body is so much longer. I'll try to find my RDA book when I get home. It seems I saw it somewhere not too long ago. It has all the specifics about each of the vitamins and minerals and how the RDAs for them were determined.

[decimon]

Two hundred times the stated amount of selenium is quite a discrepancy. But I wouldn’t eschew supplements for fear of this possibility.

[aruanan]

Two hundred times the stated amount of selenium is quite a discrepancy. But I wouldn’t eschew supplements for fear of this possibility.

Well, no, but it's something to keep in mind. For the most part, though, unless you're a woman (who needs a greater amount of calcium that she can easily get through the diet), you can get all the micronutrients you need to prevent deficiency diseases by eating from a wide variety of foods in an amount sufficient for your daily energy needs over a period of several weeks. That is, you don't have to have the RDA for every single micronutrient every single day. And men don't need as much iron as premenopausal women.