| (1) | Anti-carcinogenic |
| (2) | Immuno-stimulant |
| (3) | Protective agaist heart and circulatory diseases |
| (4) | Capable of detoxifying heavy metals, various drugs, alcohol, cigarette smoke, peroxidised fats |
| (5) | Cosmetically beneficial to the skin |
| (6) | Increases male potency and sex drive |
| (7) | Anti-inflammatory and thus useful against arthritis and other auto-immune diseases |
| (1) | Highly toxic even in minute doses |
| (2) | Mutagenic (i.e. capable of producing potentially harmful mutations in cells) |
| (3) | Carcinogenic |
| (4) | Cannot be effectively used by the body in supplement form |
| (5) | rendered useless by concurrent intake of vitamin C |