Re: Cannell on CLO/Vitamin E

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There is a recent study though showing that

supplementing with vitamin E raises the risk of heart attacks.

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Which vitamin E(s)??

Plain synthetic aplha tocopherol? (no surprise there).

Or which natural components?

Seems there are great variations available.

Take care,

Alice - violist & HSing mom to Alice (DS) born Thanksgiving Day 1995

:-)

Hopewell Junction, NY

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On 1/4/06, Alice <castella@...> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----

>

> There is a recent study though showing that

> supplementing with vitamin E raises the risk of heart attacks.

> ========

>

> Which vitamin E(s)??

> Plain synthetic aplha tocopherol? (no surprise there).

> Or which natural components?

> Seems there are great variations available.

I haven't read the study, I just saw it as I was going through other

stuff. So I don't know. But I doubt there is much variation. I'd

venture a guess that at this point nearly all supplemental vitamin E,

for statistical purposes, is alpha-tocopherol.

Chris

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When it's called Gamma Tocopherol, Delta Tocopherol and Beta Tocopherol??

I'm not thinking so...

Take care,

Alice - violist & HSing mom to Alice (DS) born Thanksgiving Day 1995 :-)

Hopewell Junction, NY

http://users.bestweb.net/~castella

castella@...

Re: Cannell on CLO/Vitamin E

On 1/4/06, Alice <castella@...> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----

>

> There is a recent study though showing that

> supplementing with vitamin E raises the risk of heart attacks.

> ========

>

> Which vitamin E(s)??

> Plain synthetic aplha tocopherol? (no surprise there).

> Or which natural components?

> Seems there are great variations available.

I haven't read the study, I just saw it as I was going through other

stuff. So I don't know. But I doubt there is much variation. I'd

venture a guess that at this point nearly all supplemental vitamin E,

for statistical purposes, is alpha-tocopherol.

Chris

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On 1/4/06, Alice <castella@...> wrote:

> When it's called Gamma Tocopherol, Delta Tocopherol and Beta Tocopherol??

> I'm not thinking so...

I have no idea what you are trying to say. Please clarify?

Chris

--

Dioxins in Animal Foods:

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http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/dioxins.html

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Vitamin E is actually an umbrella term for a group of eight compounds called

tocopherols and tocotrienols. Until recently, most vitamin E products contained

only tocopherols (alpha-, beta-, delta-, and gamma-tocopherols), with

alpha-tocopherol recognized as the body's predominant and most potent form. The

tocotrienols (alpha-tocotrienol, specifically) appear to be the most powerful of

the vitamin E antioxidants.

from

http://www.greatvistachemicals.com/vitamins-vitamin/tocopherol-vitamin-e.html

also see http://www.benbest.com/nutrceut/VitaminE.html

A blanket statement that supplementing vitamin E raises risk of heart attacks

leaves me with

way more questions than answers and a large dose of suspicion too.

A source for the referred to study would be welcome.

Take care,

Alice - violist & HSing mom to Alice (DS) born Thanksgiving Day 1995 :-)

Hopewell Junction, NY

http://users.bestweb.net/~castella

castella@...

Re: Cannell on CLO/Vitamin E

On 1/4/06, Alice <castella@...> wrote:

> When it's called Gamma Tocopherol, Delta Tocopherol and Beta Tocopherol??

> I'm not thinking so...

I have no idea what you are trying to say. Please clarify?

Chris

--

Dioxins in Animal Foods:

A Case For Vegetarianism?

Find Out the Truth:

http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/dioxins.html

[Guest guest]

On 1/4/06, Alice <castella@...> wrote:

> A blanket statement that supplementing vitamin E raises risk of heart attacks

leaves me with way more questions than answers and a large dose of suspicion

too.

Maybe we're miscommunicating. I know that vitamin E is a complex of

different compounds. I am well aware of this. However, I am willing

to bet that in any given large group of people supplementing with

vitamin E, there will be far too few who are using something else

besides alpha-tocopherol to generate any statistical power whatsoever.

Therefore, without even looking at the abstract let alone the study

itself, I would be willing to be a small amount of money on the fact

that the association was with alpha-tocopherol -- the taking of which

I've heard is worse than nothing at all and inhibits the function of

other important E constituents -- rather than with a mixed

tocopherol/tocotrienol complex.

> A source for the referred to study would be welcome.

I was just mentioning it in passing, and I didn't save it. You can

probably find it easily on medline, since it was recent, it may well

be in the first page of results for relevant keywords (they go by

date, most recent first). If I come across it again I will post it to

the list. But I wasn't making any claims about it. All I saw was the

title, IIRC.

Chris

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Dioxins in Animal Foods:

A Case For Vegetarianism?

Find Out the Truth:

http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/dioxins.html