Your oral chelation routine may already include selenium or perhaps you take nutritional supplements containing the mineral to help protect your prostate health.
If selenium is not already part of your daily intake, new research about its role in preventing bladder cancer may change your mind.
Findings published in Cancer Prevention Research suggest that there is an inverse association between selenium consumption and the incidence of bladder cancer in some patients.
Scientists at Dartmouth Medical School found that women, smokers and those who had p53 positive cancer (among people with the p53 gene) had lower rates of bladder cancer when their intake of selenium was higher.
Study author professor Margaret Karagas said that the findings could provide “clues about how the tumors could be prevented in the future.”
The study will be replicated with a larger group of participants to gain further insight, she added.
An antioxidant that may inhibit cell proliferation, selenium has also been found to reduce a mans risk of developing prostate cancer.
The current recommended dietary allowance for adults is 55 micrograms for women and 70 micrograms for men.