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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / January 2004Vitamin E recommendations?
We have all heard that Vitamin E may be helpful both for prostate health and w/ PCa but, after a small amount of research, I have found that the standard form of E that is available alone or in multi-vitamins may not be the form we really want. The cheapest and most prevalent form of "natural" E is d-alpha tocopherol but it is also the form most likely to be in your diet. The form that you can't get enough of through diet, and that may be the super E antioxidant, is the gamma form. The beta and delta forms are also necessary. So, has anyone looked into and found a trusted source for high-gamma vitamin E? I have never been "into" vitamins and supplements so I'm asking some of you health nuts out there. Bill Denton RP 2/12/02 Memphis > We have all heard that Vitamin E may be helpful both for prostate > health and w/ PCa but, after a small amount of research, I have found [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > RP 2/12/02 > Memphis I'm not sure I understand all the distinctions, but I've read that the so-called mixed tocopherols are best. I use the Twinlab Super E-complex. I buy them at the local Whole Foods Market. Bill...A few months back I read similar information suggesting that various tocopherol isomers ("alpha" is the main one in V-E) and tocotrienols are potent antioxidants. I searched a lot of health food stores only to find that a large chain grocery store carried what I am currently using. I found Nature's Bounty "High Gamma Vitamin E Complex" for $5+change for 30 softgels containing 200 IU d-alpha 200 mg d-gamma 78 mg d-delta + d-beta 2 mg tocotrienols ...Ron > We have all heard that Vitamin E may be helpful both for prostate > health and w/ PCa but, after a small amount of research, I have found [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > RP 2/12/02 > Memphis "I found Nature's Bounty "High Gamma Vitamin E Complex" for $5+change for 30 softgels containing > 200 IU d-alpha > 200 mg d-gamma > 78 mg d-delta + d-beta > 2 mg tocotrienols" Thanks, Ron, I came across that one on the Internet but wasn't familiar w/ Nature's Bounty (or any other brands) but I gather it is well thought of so I will go w/ that. Leonard, from what I have read on this topic, "mixed" is better than the standard E but if they don't tell you how much gamma you are getting, it is probably not enough. I.e., they put just enough of the more expensive forms in there to call it "mixed." Bill Denton RP 2/12/02 Memphis > "I found Nature's Bounty "High Gamma Vitamin E Complex" for $5+change > for 30 softgels containing [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > getting, it is probably not enough. I.e., they put just enough of the > more expensive forms in there to call it "mixed." You may be right. All they do is list the types without any information on how much of each there is. Our Congress, the best that money can buy, decreed many years ago that the supplements industry can't be regulated by the FDA. > Bill Denton > RP 2/12/02 > Memphis Is this the article you came up with? http://contact.naturalhealthperspective.com/search.html Here's a high-gamma E: http://www.nowfoods.com/?action=itemdetail&item_id=12531 I'm going to e-mail my rad-onc to ask him about this --- I'll let you know what he answers. Larry > We have all heard that Vitamin E may be helpful both for prostate > health and w/ PCa but, after a small amount of research, I have found [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > RP 2/12/02 > Memphis Larry...Actually, it was a post by Dr. Strum in the P2P newsgroup that pointed me to an article of his in the June 2003 Life Extension magazine that got me started...Ron http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2003/jun2003_report_prostate_02.html > Is this the article you came up with? > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Larry Thanks for that article Ron, I'm going to bookmark it for reference! Larry > Larry...Actually, it was a post by Dr. Strum in the P2P newsgroup that > pointed me to an article of his in the June 2003 Life Extension > magazine that got me started...Ron > > http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2003/jun2003_report_prostate_02.html |
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