PREPARATION FOR PREGNANCY - AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE
by Suzanne Gail Bradley with Nicholas Bennett - Foresight, The Association for the Promotion of Preconceptual Care

Selenium

"Like Vitamin E, with which it is associated in some functions, is a powerful anti-oxidant which help to prevent
chromosomal damage in tissue culture. Such damage is associated with birth defects and cancers.

..... In human cell culture it is required for growth .....

..... It may be important in preventing cot deaths. In the USA about a quarter of the babies who die each year are found to be
deficient in selenium and/or Vitamin E. Most of them are bottle fed. (Pfieffer 1978, Underwood 1977)."

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