\r\n \r\n Selenium is awesome in preventing myopathy heart attack, as that has been shown long ago. However, I\'d like to see a four year study using all 16 vitamins, 60 minerals, 12 amino acids, and 3 essential fatty acids in optimal amounts, then compare that group to a group supplementing with 100mg of Co Q10 twice per day and 200mcg selenium per day...
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\nI get a kick out of these studies that recommend this or that, but don\'t realize that vitamins won\'t work without all the mineral cofactors, including COPPER.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Your beginning to sound more like Joel Wallach every day.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Hey, I like Bill Sardi to... and Gary Null, and Mercola, and Rebecca Carley, Linus Pauling, Doug Kaufmann, Jack Lalanne, Brenda Watson, and several others..\r\n

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\r\n \r\n We must remember though that there are areas where Selenium toxicity is a problem and although it is certainly the case that in the UK and in Sweden it\'s safe to say supplementing with 200 micrograms selenium per day plus 100 milligrams CoQ10 twice daily is probably safe (I\'d suggest that in the UK 100mg twice daily Selenium is probably adequate) in areas where there is too much selenium in the soil and the crops grown on that soil
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\r\nSource: United States Geological Survey https://tin.er.usgs.gov/geochem/doc/averages/se/usa.html - (National Geochemical Survey)
\r\nWe may find that using 400mg EXTRA selenium is areas of Selenium toxicity is not a good idea.
\r\nWe\'ve had some research on selenium and prostate cancer where the results of a one size fits all approach harmed as many as it helped.
\r\nIf the chances are you are living where there is already too much selenium in your food/water then adding more may not be a smart move.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Charts like this one are hardly any help at all.
\nOur food sources come from all over the planet these days, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and look at the scores for the North West, no Data Available! Local produce is only available in part part of the year.
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\nIt is highly unlikely that anyone will suffer selenium toxicity from taking 200mcg a day. How many cases of selenium toxicity are reported anyway?\r\n

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\r\n \r\n I\'m pretty sure you mean micrograms, not mg... right?
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\n...and I would suggest 250 mcg of selenium per day as a supplement in addition to whatever small amount you may get from food.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Thanks for catching that mistake
\nthe research we are talking about used 200 micrograms selenium per day plus 100 milligrams CoQ10 twice daily for 48 months
\nso I should have written 400mcg
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\nWhile it\'s true food is a major source of selenium and we cannot be sure if it\'s grown in selenium adequate/toxic soils or not our water supply may be a significant source of selenium particularly if it\'s well water.
\nConsumer Factsheet on: SELENIUM
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\nI think the following occurrence is pretty rare but the fact that it has happened before shouldn\'t make us overconfident it couldn\'t happen again.
\nAcute Selenium Toxicity Associated With a Dietary Supplement
\nCan happen in pigs as well.
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\nSelenium Toxicity in the Western United States\' Pork Industry\r\n

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\r\n \r\n I read the article you posted concerning the supplement company that caused some selenium toxcicity issues in 200 people because their product contained 200 times the selenium than was marked on the label.
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\nJust like in some vitamin D products, where the company failed to dilute the vitamin D, and was supplying doses in excess of 1,000,000iu some people became toxic, however, just like in the case of selenium toxcicity, nobody died. One person out of 201 was hospitalized, but no deaths.
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\nNow lets compare that to Vioxx..\r\n

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