YOU: The Owner's Manual, Updated and Expanded Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Body That Will Make You Healthier and Younger by Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen

Author:Mehmet C. Oz & Michael F. Roizen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Nutrition, Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780061473678
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

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FACTOID

Selenium toxicity is thought to have been, ultimately, what did in General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The horses that were supposed to help him get away were wobbly and ran timidly due to selenium poisoning (it made their feet tender from sores and made them wobbly due to neurological changes).

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VITAMINS, MINERALS, AND OMEGA-3S By now, you know the importance of working vitamins into your diet. It’s no different for your sexual health. There are some data that show that vitamin E—especially mixed tocopherols—decreases the risk of prostate cancer. (But if you’re taking a statin—and we know we’re repeating, but it bears repeating—you shouldn’t take more than 100 IU of mixed tocopherols or vitamin E because it inhibits the function of that statin by 40 percent.) For women, 800 IU of vitamin E has been shown to decrease the dryness of the vaginal wall to help with libido and arousal. Folate (800 micrograms a day) and the B vitamins in RDA amounts—as well as 3 daily grams of omega-3 fatty acids (in supplements, in DHA-fortified foods or pills, in twelve walnuts a day, or in thirteen ounces of nonfried fatty fish a week) and 15 milligrams of zinc—have been shown to help increase fertility as well by improving sperm mobility and by improving the hospitality of the uterus toward the implantation of the egg. Finally, good ole vitamin C also will increase sperm motility, which might prove useful, depending on whether you want more kids in your life.

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