Vanadium Benefits

Vanadium's benefits include:

Vanadium is required for proper growth and development
Vanadium is required to maintain and regulate proper growth and development of the cells and tissues in the body.
Vanadium is required for bone health
Vanadium is needed to help ensure that bone health is regulated and that bone tissue develops properly.
Vanadium is needed for enzyme absorption
Vanadium is required to enable various enzymes, the chemical metabolic process reaction initiators to be absorbed properly, so that the enzymes can work effectively in the body.

Vanadium is required to maintain and regulate proper growth and development of the cells and tissues in the body

Vanadium is needed for fat metabolism
Vanadium is needed to ensure that there is proper fat metabolism, especially in cholesterol metabolism. This function of vanadium has beneficial implications in heart disease.
Vanadium may be needed for thyroid health
Recent studies show that vanadium may play a part in maintaining the health of the thyroid (together with selenium and iodine).
Vanadium may be important for diabetes
Studies on animals have shown that vanadium in the form vanadyl, are effective in diminishing the diabetic state in the rat by substituting for and replacing insulin or possibly by enhancing the effects of endogenous insulin.

Posted: 20 March 2008