Thursday, November 10, 2011

The safety of Vitamin E

Vitamin E is used to refer to a group of fat-soluble compounds that include both tocopherols and tocotrienols. This variant of vitamin E can be found most abundantly in wheat germ oil, sunflower, and safflower oils. Vitamin E does not decrease mortality, even at large doses, and may slightly increase it. It performs its functions as antioxidant in what is known by the glutathione peroxidase pathway and it protects cell membranes from oxidation by reacting with lipid radicals produced in the lipid peroxidation chain reaction.
Vitamin E has many biological functions. Most studies about vitamin E have supplemented using only alpha-tocopherol, but doing so leads to reduced serum gamma- and delta-tocopherol concentrations. Until further research has been carried out on the other forms of vitamin E, conclusions relating to the other forms of vitamin E, based on trials studying only the efficacy of alpha-tocopherol, may be premature. Very few people realize that there are eight different fractions of vitamin E known as food additives that are essential to optimal health and protect against vascular diseases such as heart disease and stroke.
Who can resist summer's siren call, beckoning us to the great outdoors? When you commune with Mother Nature, you may encounter more on your outings than expected. Extensive Big Pharma propaganda has most allopathic physicians and their patients focused on blood cholesterol levels as a critical factor in cardiovascular disease development, as this is a number they can easily manipulate with dangerous statin drugs.
A study found that Vitamin E supplement may increase prostate cancer risk. Men randomly assigned to take a 400-unit capsule of vitamin E every day for about five years were 17 percent more likely to get prostate cancer than those given dummy pills. The study was actually launched to try to confirm less rigorous research suggesting vitamin E might protect against prostate cancer.

Other food additives: Taurine           Ascorbic Acid         L-Tyrosine

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