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Hi, this is Dr. Rishow and let's discuss Selenium CO-10 and your heart health.

Now recently we discussed a study and I'll put the link in the notes

here that showed supplementation for four years in duration with selenium and co-Q10 could

decrease risk of cardiovascular death for 10 years after the supplementation. Now there's been a

follow-up analysis of this study that I like to cover with you here.

So I'll put the study abstract up here on the screen and give you a few notes. The name of the study,

supplementation with selenium and CO-10 reduces cardiovascular mortality and elderly with low selenium status,

a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial. Now, the randomized clinical trial is what I referred to a moment ago.

Essentially, four years of supplementation with selenium in Q10,

reduced the risk of death from cardiovascular disease for a 10-year period afterwards.

So pretty compelling results. This is just one study and it's a fairly small group about 200 patients,

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