Putting Limits on Vitamin E (QALY fied)

American Friends Tel Aviv University ^ | December 30, 2009 | Unknown

[decimon]

The potent antioxidant may do more harm than good, TAU research suggests

Vitamin-fortified foods and dietary health supplements can ease health worries. But what kinds of vitamins are right for you? And how much of them should you take, and how often?

A research group from Tel Aviv University has done the most comprehensive and accurate study of clinical data on Vitamin E use and heart disease to date, and it warns that indiscriminate use of high-dose Vitamin E supplementation does more harm than good. Their results were recently reported in ATVB, a leading journal of cardiology, and discussed in the journal BioFactors.

"There were so many conflicting reports about Vitamin E and its effect on various diseases, particularly heart disease, that we wanted to set the record straight, says Prof. Dov Lichtenberg of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine.

"Our new study shows that some people may be harmed by the treatment, whereas others may benefit from it. Now we're trying to identify groups of people that are most likely to benefit from the effects of Vitamin E," adds study co-researcher Dr. Ilya Pinchuk. The TAU research team also included decision analyst Dr. Moshe Leshno of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Leon Recanati Faculty of Management and Dr. Yedidya (Didi) Dotan, whose PhD thesis is the basis for this analysis.

[Rockingham]

I am not familiar with the GMP certification program. I mostly use Life Extension products.

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Help yourself. Unfortunately, after the 1970s Jewish mother humor was turned from warm, nostalgic humor, into passive-aggressive, angry humor, and for the most part stopped being funny. A lot of people now find it deeply objectionable.

[Quix]

Once can certainly laugh and cry over some memories.

Better to laugh, when possible.

She had a heart of gold . . . as well as a ton of her own hurts.

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