Ralph L. Samson wrote:
>> I recently read about the big new study of the effect of Selenium
> This was prompted by the
> results from an earlier study that was looking for a benefit for skin
> cancer. It turned out there was no benefit for skin cancer but
> benefits for many other cancers. This was puzzling since the benefit from
> selenium in supplying the antioxidant glutathione peroxidase should affect
> all cancers.
Please explain. are you saying that selenium turns on a glutathione pathway
or is it a co-factor for the enzyme?
> Another study, by Will Taylor at the University of Georgia
> School of Pharmacy, showed that selenium prevented the spread of HIV from
> infected cells. This suggests that a similar mechanism might be involved
> with cancer.
Only cancers that are caused by a retrovirus, i would assume, since cancer
doesn't spread to other cells like an infection.
> That is, selenium in a cancerous cell might block the spread
> of the cancer to other cells. Thus, it would not be truly prevention or
> a cure, but limiting cancer to a very small region might be almost as good.
> But what about the skin?
what affects are there on warts?
Markh
