Selenium of Botanical Origin - for the maintenance of healthy somatic cells.
Harmful environmental influences, exhaust fumes, smog, ozone, solar radiation, luxury foods and stress can result in a forming of aggressive substances. These substances are called "free radicals". Free radicals can influence the balance of the metabolic reactions. The antioxidative vitamins C, E as well as beta-carotin (also called provitamin A) and the vital trace element selenium support our somatic cells. Therefore it is reasonable to supply your body regularly with these so-called scavengers in a sufficient form.
Selenium is a central element of many enzymes, which fulfil important protective functions in the body. It strengthens the immune system and is especially needed with high physical strain and stress, at age and during pregnancy and lactation.
Vegetarian selenium from the brazil nut
Selenium is an element which is detrimental to most plants if it occurs in the soil. Plants absorb selenium as selenate or selenite and convert it in analogy to the common biochemical pathway of sulfate. In fact, most plants cannot differentiate between selenium and sulphur and therefore incorporate selenium instead of sulphur into amino acids: They synthezise thus selenocysteine along with cysteine and selenomethionine along with methionine. Most plants do also not differentiate between sulphur and selenium containing amino acids and incorporate both into their proteins. There are slight differences between sulphur amino acids and selenium amino acids: The selenium is larger and behaves chemically somewhat differently. The Se-H bond in selenocysteine is more acidic (that is, it ionizes at lower pH) than the S-H bond in cysteine and also it is more prone to oxidation. Thus, in proteins Se-H groups form readily -Se-Se- crosslinking bridges. This, together with the higher degree of ionization contorts proteins and makes them - from a certain Se concentration on - dysfunctional: The organism – be it plant or animal - dies if it has absorbed too much selenium.
Normal plants as for instance wheat absorb selenium passively; in contrast there are plants which accumulate the element actively. These so-called accumulator plants have found a way not only to survive on highly seleniferous soils, they even make good use of the selenium. In order to prevent the protein distortion by selenocystein and -methionin they interrupt the seleno amino acid biosynthetic pathway at a precursor. The precursor is selenocystathionine:
HOOC-CH(NH2)-CH2-CH2-Se-CH2-CH(NH2)-COOH.
The advantage of this compound is that it cannot be incorporated into proteins. Thus proteins cannot be damaged. Rather, the uncommon amino acid is “compartmentalized" in the free form in certain parts of the plant rendering these parts less attractive to browsing animals. Selenium is thus used as a protectant.
In South America all selenium accumulators belong to the family of the Lecythidaceae. Among them is Bertholettia excelsa, the Brazil nut tree. Brazil nuts have a high selenium concentration. The oil from brazil nuts can be removed by pressing and ethanol extraction to obtain a light colored, dry flour with a variable but often high selenium concentration. This nut flour is a completely natural selenium source. A particular advantage of this source is that its selenium is practically exclusively present as selencystathionine. Selenocystathionine cannot be incorporated into proteins (in contrast to selenomethionine), but being a natural precursor it is easily converted into selenocysteine, the only selenium form used by the body. Brazil nut flour is thus not only the most natural but also the physiological most favourable form of selenium.
Brazil Nut Selenium Capsules offer the physiological most favourable form of selenium.
The careful coordinated composition of Brazil Nut Selenium 70 µg Capsules offers nourish-conscious people the possibility to stimulate the functional ability of their somatic cells up to old age. Each vegetarian capsule contains 70 µg of pure Selenium out of the Brazil Nut plus vitamin C, E and Beta-Carotene.
Direction: Take only 1 Capsule daily.
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