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Description
"Vitamin E
Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps to maintain cell integrity. It is easily obtained from sunflower, safflower, canola, and olive oils; also from many grains, nuts, fruits as well as fatty parts of meats.
Research using vitamin E at far higher doses than the daily requirement has provided evidence that it may be useful in preventing or treating numerous medical conditions, including; menstrual pain, cardiac autonomic neuropathy (a complication of diabetes), low sperm count, restless leg syndrome, inflammation of eye tissues, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and rheumatoid arthritis. Vitamin E also might improve seniors' immune response.
Vitamin E has been promoted as a vitamin useful in preventing cardiovascular disease. But most of the recent studies have failed to support that premise. It is important to note however that many of those studies looked only at individuals already at high risk for heart disease or with a prior history of it cardiovascular disease. Current evidence with vitamin E is promising in the prevention of prostate cancer.
Selenium
Revealed in the Physicians Health Study, was the fact that men with the highest blood selenium levels were 50% less likely to develop advanced prostate cancer as men with the lowest levels. The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial, from the National Cancer Institute, is presently testing the effects of vitamin E and selenium against prostate cancer. Hopefully the research will provide evidence for what many already know anecdotally.
There is other preliminary evidence in some studies that suggest that selenium may provide health benefits including; protection against asthma, heart attacks, rheumatoid arthritis, and male infertility.*
Dietary Supplement
*Note: The Food and Drug Administration has not evaluated any claims made. The dietary supplement product is not intended to ""diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease."" "
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