The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has stopped a study exploring the possibility that Vitamin E and/or Selenium might prevent prostate cancer.

Last year the recommendations were modified to limit Vitamin E to 200 IU per day to prevent increased risks of strokes and heart attacks, and to preferably stop it altogether. Selenium had been recommended to no more than 100 mcg per day (rather than 200) due to the worry that prostate cancers might actually grow faster if present. Same for Zinc above 70 mg per day.

The current multi-institutional study seems to reflect not only a failure of Vitamin E and Selenium to prevent prostate cancer, but a distinctly possible increased risk in men with family histories of prostate cancer. In addition, Selenium may cause diabetes.

Stick with lycopenes (tomato products), anti-inflammatory medicines, pomegranate juice, and soy proteins.

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