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Okay - here's another good one and this one is very, very interesting. Vanadium - like selenium is toxic but food sources include cereals especially buckwheat and oats, green beans, olive and peanut oils, carrots, cabbage, corn, parsley, garlic and sunflower seeds.
The interesting thing is that researchers are also looking at it in treating diabetes because it controls insulin resistance and the insulin pathway as well (scientific name of vanadium is sodium vanadate). Now - if you have read my posts from way back, I used think that besides Her 2 and ER/PR receptors on breast cancer cells that there could be insulin receptors. I have given up on this theory because they would have found them by now AND that insulin is a HUGE molecule - just enormous. But... it does enter into the same P13K pathway and the same inhibitors are being looked at for diabetes. (I just found this interesting is all...).
I will keep up the look and at work (since it is a chemical company that I work for).
Becky
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