Body Boost Mega Vitamins

This supplement is specifically tailored to the needs of our gout ridden and arthritic customers containing no extra Iron or Niacin, which can aggravate someone with these conditions.

The importance of vitamins and minerals cannot be stressed enough. They are essential to all living things as a source for vitality, cell protection & metabolism, and health in general. With few exceptions, vitamins are primarily not manufactured by the body so they must be obtained through diet and dietary supplements. Unfortunately, obtaining enough through our diet has become increasingly difficult. This is true for several reasons: Please look at the Gout Vitamin page for details about each vitamin and how they benefit you everyday.



Selenium intake may reduce or stop prostate cancer from occurring:

Reference: “Selenium accumulation in prostate tissue during a randomized, controlled short-term trial of l-selenomethionine: a Southwest Oncology Group Study,” Sabichi AL, Lee JJ, et al, Clin Cancer Res., 2006, 12(7 Pt 1): 2178-84. (Address: University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. E-Mail: asabichi@mdanderson.org ).

Summary: In a randomized, controlled, short-term trial involving 66 patients with organ-confined prostate cancer, oral supplementation with selenium led to an increased concentration of selenium in prostate tissue as opposed to the seminal vesicle (SV). The patients were randomized to l-selenomethionine (SeMet) supplementation (n=34) or observation (n=32). The patients in both groups had similar patient characteristics and serum selenium at baseline, while baseline toenail selenium levels were slightly higher in the SeMet group. At intervention end, mean serum selenium increased by 15% in the SeMet group, compared to baseline, and was higher than that in the observation group. Additionally, selenium concentration measured in prostate tissue was 22% higher in the SeMet group than in the observation group. After adjusting for chronic selenium intake, selenium concentration in the prostate tissue remained significantly higher in the SeMet group, compared to the observation group . Selenium levels measured in the seminal vesicle were similar in both groups and lower than selenium levels in prostate tissue. Thus, the findings of this study demonstrate that supplemental selenium taken orally accumulates preferentially in prostate tissue as opposed to the SV, thereby suggesting that oral supplementation with selenium may enhance the cancer preventive effects of selenium.