Vitamin E – essential knowledge for supplementation

✍ Scribed by Ping Tou Gee

• Book ID: 102462974
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 451 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0956-666X
• DOI: 10.1002/lite.201100102

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Misinterpretation of scientific data led vitamin E research in a wrong direction. Scientists focused on α‐tocopherol, ignoring other forms of vitamin E. However, natural α‐tocopherol supplementation significantly increased all‐cause mortality. This paradoxical observation demonstrates flaws in current understanding on vitamin E. Updated knowledge on vitamin E supplementation provides explanation of this paradoxical observation. The less well‐known tocotrienols, but not α‐tocopherol, fulfil the fundamentals for disease prevention which differ from antioxidant activity.