Overview
Vitamin E (tocopherols) — A substance as important as this ought to be made by the body itself... but isn’t.
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that exists in eight
different forms: alpha-, beta-, delta-, and gamma-tocopherol, and
the corresponding tocotrienols. LifeLink’s Vitamin E is a
mixture of the four tocopherols. Your body is unable to make vitamin
E, so you must get an adequate amount in food or from
supplements.
The tocopherols are antioxidants which play a role in
neutralizing free radical molecules. If free radicals remained
unneutralized
they would rapidly damage all parts of the body and drastically
shorten our lives. The tocopherols may also participate in
the synthesis and maintenance of red blood cells.
A substance with such fundamental actions is bound to have broad benefits. Vitamin E supplementation has been shown to have
beneficial effects upon:
- prostate cancer and other cancers
- tardive dyskinesia
- restless leg syndrome
- eye inflammation
- preeclampsia
- Alzheimer’s disease
- rheumatoid arthritis
- diabetes
- stroke
- cataracts
- retinopathy
- macular degeneration
- male infertility.
Several studies have cast doubt on Vitamin E’s benefits in preventing heart disease, but they are contradicted by many other
studies that have concluded just the opposite.
Read Vitamin E Monograph
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that exists in eight
different forms: alpha-, beta-, delta-, and gamma-tocopherol, and
the corresponding tocotrienols. LifeLink’s Vitamin E is a
mixture of the four tocopherols.
Vitamin E is an antioxidant which, in conjunction with other
antioxidants, neutralizes free radical molecules which, if left
unneutralized, would rapidly damage all parts of the body and
drastically shorten our lives. Vitamin E may also participate
in the synthesis and maintenance of red blood cells.
A substance with such fundamental actions should have broad
benefits. Indeed, evidence for the value of Vitamin E supplementation
has been shown by scientific studies of: prostate cancer and
other cancers, tardive dyskinesia, restless leg syndrome, eye
inflammation, preeclampsia, Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid
arthritis, diabetes, stroke, cataracts, retinopathy, macular
degeneration,
and male infertility. Recent studies have cast doubt on Vitamin
E’s benefits in preventing heart disease, but they are contradicted
by many other studies that have concluded just the opposite.
