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Too Much of a Good Thing - Selenium: Little More Than in Many 'Multis' Can Trigger Subclinical Hypothyroidism, Less Selenium (25% of the RDA) Cuts 13% Body Fat in 10 Weeks

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Three things make this study special #1 it's human study, #2 it was conducted in a metabolic ward and #3 it didn't use potentially toxic Se supplements If you ask around about how you can accelerate your metabolism, selenium and iodine, which are both important players in the concert of thyroid hormones, are usually among the first supplements to be mentioned. The bad news is: If you are not deficient in one of them, taking copious amounts of either of them may well slow down your metabolism significantly. In view of the fact that the mechanism that triggers this side effect for selenium is a bit more straight forward than it is for iodine, I would like to start this new series with the initially mentioned essential trace element. Learn more about your thyroid , T3 , and T4 at the SuppVersity Green tea messes w/ your thyroid hormones TSH alone is not a good measure of thyroid health Fructose prevents decline of T3 while dieting T2 has thyroid-suppressing ...
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Curcumin, Genistein, Pomegranate & Co. - A Dirty Dozen of Supplements & Foods to Keep Your Prostate Cancer Free

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Which of the dirty dozen of supplements and foodstuffs in today's SuppVersity review can really help you to make sure, you're not the one out of those nine men who develops prostate cancer? Supplements that are supposed to protect you from developing prostate cancer and/or agents that may help patients with existing prostate issues are - obviously - in high demand. And as W. Merkle points out in a recent article in the German science journal Urologe using them - even if they may not be as effective as some patients may believe - makes sense: from a psychological perspective, alone (Merkle. 2014). Taking a pill with selenium, for example, has been shown to alleviate some of the side effects of chemotherapy. General protective effects against prostate cancer, on the other hand, have not been established. In fact, the most recent studies rather suggest that "supplementation did not benefit men with low selenium status but increased the risk of high-grade PCa among men ...
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Brazil Nuts & Selenium: Are You Nuts If You Have More Than 1/Day? Putting the Toxicity Issue into Perspective

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Brazil nuts & selenium: "How much is too much?" A weighty question. "Isn't it dangerous to consume Brazil nuts on a regular basis?" This is probably one of the most common questions I have been getting in relation to posts about selenium. In fact, the issue of selenosis (=toxically high selenium levels) from the intake of brazil nuts resurfaced only a couple of days ago in the comment area of one of the blogposts and since I am a lazy bast*** and unwilling to answer this question time and again, I decided to try and settle the issue once and for all by writing this post about the health hazardous effects of Brazli nuts... Well, ok - maybe they are not so health hazardous, after all Despite the fact that the evidence from human studies is not exactly extensive, the studies we do have would suggest that going nuts on brazil nuts is much safer than the hilarously high selenium content of Brazli nuts from certain regions in (you guessed it) Brazil woul...
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Selenium & Skin Cancer. ALA, Inflammation & Muscular Adaptations. Eccentric Training & Oxidative Muscle Fibers. Tip of the Day: Have Plenty & Regular Sex For Your Brain

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Certain "behaviors" during spring break can give your brain a neuro-anabolic break. 13% and 15% that's the number of Canadian University Students who claim to do what it takes to keep their brain volume at least stable over the spring break. 13% of the female and 15% of the male student and female students, respectively, that's also the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and at the same time the relative number of students who openly declared that they were about / had previously engaged in "casual sexual activity" on the upcoming / past spring break trip to Daytona Beach, Florida (Maticka-Tyndale. 1998) Who said our youth did not know what's good for them? Since the pertinent study preceded the Glasper study addressed in the current installment of on short notice by 15 years, these results just go to show you that we know instinctively what's necessary to counter the effects of the alcohol over spring-break ;-) Selenium and skin cancer ...
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Magnesium vs. Diabetes - Which Form is Best? Exercise, Energy Intake & the HPTA. Glutamine & CHO For Sprinters & HIITers. Mercury & Diabetes, Amalgam, Se, Zn & Detox

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Won't take long until China is the world economy #1 and not much longer until they are the fattest economy, as well ;-) Let's see which one do I pick? Oh, ok... The SuppVersity Figure of the Week is 0.19 . This is the correlation coefficient that describes the statistical relation - which is as every SuppVersity student knows no evidence of causal relationships (!) - between the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and the prevalence of obesity as it was calculated by Mario Siervo and colleagues from the Newcastle University and the UCL Institute of Child Health in London as part of their analysis of country-specific prevalence estimates of overweight, obesity and hypertension and their relation to nutrient and food intakes and (and this is new!) the economy (Siervo. 2013). The scientists used the WHO Global Infobase database, year- and country-specific Food Balance Sheets (FBS) and information on urbanization rates, per capita GDP and physical inactivity and did ...
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