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From: The silicon supplement ‘Monomethylsilanetriol’ is safe and increases the body pool of silicon in healthy Pre-menopausal women

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Fasting serum and urinary silicon levels before and after supplementation with MMST and placebo. (A) Fasting serum total-Si concentrations before supplementation (Baseline: n = 14) or following 4 weeks supplementation with organic silicon (MMST: n = 14) or 4 weeks of placebo (Placebo: n =14). Data is shown as box-plots, where the horizontal lines indicate the 5th, 25th, 50th (or median), 75th and 95th percentiles, the open square shows the mean and the crosses the minimum and maximum values. Total-Si concentrations were significantly higher following supplementation with MMST compared to Baseline (P = 0.0002; paired t-test) or Placebo (P = 0.003; paired t-test). No effect of the order in receiving the solutions (i.e. MMST before or after placebo) was observed. (B) Fasting urine total-Si concentrations before supplementation (Baseline: n = 18) or following 4 weeks supplementation with organic silicon (MMST: n = 18) or 4 weeks of placebo (Placebo: n =18). Total-Si concentration was significantly higher following supplementation with MMST compared to Baseline (P = 0.008; paired t-test) or Placebo (P = 0.007; paired t-test). No effect of the order in receiving the solutions (i.e. MMST before or after placebo) was observed.

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