'Natural' vitamin E

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Hi Genesa:

Thanks for that contribution regarding vitamin E. But I did not find

any of the sources I read from the search to be persuasive.

Many of them had a clear financial interest in promoting a product

they sell.

I entered " Vitamin E synthetic natural " in the search window at

Pubmed. It came up with seven pages of studies. I went through the

first full page - twenty studies - and didn't find any that seemed to

suggest, based on their titles or abstracts, that there was any

difference between synthetic and 'natural' - except in respect

to " bioavailability " . Nor any showing notable benefits. But there

were quite a few that had noted that vitamin E had no effect on the

issue studied.

Of course if a product has greater 'bioavailability', it means that

the substance is even more dangerous if the product itself is shown

to be harmful. And bioavailability is irrelevant if the product is

shown to have no effect.

But if you find a couple of studies in Pubmed which show that when

administered under carefully controlled conditions any type of

vitamin E has remarkably beneficial effects, I will be all ears.

I do take 400 I.U. of vitamin E (synthetic) about once a week. If

the most recent news is confirmed by further studies I will not be

buying more when my existing supply runs out, fwiw.

Rodney.