Question:
Selenium

I read on this site that selenium is missing from our diets and it will help with weight loss. I already take 20 mcg in my Centrum vitamins, but recently ordered vitamin E caps with Selenium. How much is too much selenium?    — bjkgriffith (posted on May 21, 2007)

May 21, 2007
If eithr E or selenium is in oil form, you won't get enoiugh to worry about. I do both in dry form (powder in a capsule). Testing is the way to know where you are with it. I take 200mg and hold mid-high range just fine on labs.
   — vitalady

May 21, 2007
This came from lifescript.com: The recommended daily allowance of selenium is 55 mcg per day for women and 70 mcg per day for men. It is found naturally in the soil, so we get our recommended daily intake of this mineral through the foods that we eat. Plants are grown in soil and animals eat the plants, so we can get selenium from both plant and meat sources. Brazil nuts contain the highest amount of selenium, packing a walloping 840 mcg for only one ounce of these nuts. Some other great sources of selenium are oatmeal, eggs, grains, cottage cheese and noodles. Be careful not to get too much of this good thing.
   — Connie Sykes