Vitamin E Benefits
Vitamin E also helps keep your immune system strong and allows your body to form red blood cells, which are responsible for delivering oxygen to your tissues and removing waste products from your body. Vitamin K is known as the coagulation vitamin because it plays a vital role in proper blood clotting.
Sources Of Vitamin E
Some fruits and vegetables, such as spinach, broccoli, kiwi fruit, mango and tomatoes, also contain small amounts of vitamin E. Most dry cereals are fortified with vitamin E.
Selenium Benefits
Like vitamin E, selenium acts as an antioxidant.
In fact, selenium is even more effective as an antioxidant when combined with vitamin E, according to the Office of Dietary Supplements. Cottage cheese, brown rice, white rice and walnuts also contain selenium. This combination provides 57 micrograms of selenium and just over 20 milligrams of vitamin E. If you prefer to meet your vitamin E and selenium goals at lunch, place 3 ounces of tuna between two slices of whole wheat bread and enjoy with 2 ounces of sunflower seeds.
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Tudies of “supplements” end up showing at best, no positive outcomes, and, at worst, an actual increase in risk to participants receiving the “treatment”. I find it very interesting that instead of rationally accepting this, there is almost invariably an attempt to turn this into a “Big Pharma” conspiracy theory…
Be it “Big Pharma” or “Big Supplements” (ingredients usually manufactured by big pharma companies, BTW…) the concept of continually ADDING more and more things to the diet in hopes of compensating for the already ludicrously excessive consumption of salt, sugar, and fat and the deficiency of natural, whole foods stinks of consumerism-run-amok (!).
Selenium And Vitamin E
Selenium (Se), an essential nutrient, has been the subject of intense research over the past 50 y.
Se is incorporated into proteins as selenocysteine via a specific selenocysteine tRNA that reads the stop codon UGA as an insertion site. Thus, selenocysteine is considered to be the 21st amino acid (7). Se deficiency is associated with Keshan disease, a primarily childhood cardiomyopathy (8).
This finding led to the suggestion that host Se status may influence a viral infection. Vitamin E consists of 8 forms: 4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols. Vitamin E functions as a lipid soluble antioxidant.
The correction of vitamin E deficiency in rats and chicks could be achieved with Se, demonstrating that, in some cases, vitamin E and Se could spare one another’s activities through their common action as antioxidants (with Se working through antioxidant selenoproteins) (10).