Vitamin E: Oldest Antioxidant Known to Man

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Vitamin E: Oldest Antioxidant Known to Man JoAnn Guest Jun 23, 2003 13:54

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Vitamin E--is the oldest recognized antioxidant.

It may have even a more basic function, however—

the production of energy.

 

In these two capacities, vitamin E is of the utmost importance in

maintaininggood health at the most basic of levels.

 

Vitamin E also appears to help slow the aging

process and prevent premature aging.

 

In fact,it has been called the " anti-aging vitamin.

 

Vitamin E also decreases the need for oxygen in the tissues and organs

of the body.

 

Mega vitamin levels of vitamin C and trace

levels of selenium also share this function.

 

Additionally, vitamin E improves the transportation

of oxygen by the red blood cells.

 

Much of the early research relating to Vitamin E and the heart has been

doneby Dr's Wilfrid and Evan Shute.

 

Together, they operate a clinic in Canada.

Wilfrid Shute, M.D., reported a study he conducted at his clinic where

he found

that vitamin E in 300 to 3,200 IU doses

a day was quite successful in helping both individual cells and tissues

in general to function normally.

 

" Your Heart and Vitamin E " --

Is the classic book by Dr. Evan Shute.

 

He and other researchers have found

that vitamin E provides these

direct benefits to the heart.

 

**An Antithrombin—

 

It helps dissolve fresh clots

and prevents their formation in arteries and veins.

 

It is useful in treating and preventing phlebitis.

(Inflammation of the walls of the vein).

 

As a preventive measure against strokes,

vitamin E helps prevent arterial and

venous thrombosis or clots in the circulatory system of the brain.

 

**Restores Capillary Permeability—

 

It helps dilate the capillaries and thus helps circulation of blood

throughout the body. This effect is of

great value in conditions where there is a spasm in a vessel wall

or a significant degree of vessel damage,

either acute or chronic.

 

**Increases Collateral Circulation—

 

Vitamin E steps up collateral circulation

(alternative blood pathways),

a process in which smaller vessels dilate

to carry a larger volume of blood around a blocked vessel.

 

**Decreases Amount of Heart Muscle Death—

 

In cases of heart attack, vitamin E in high doses

appears to decrease the amount of heart muscle death.

 

**Lowers Heart Disease Instances—

 

Dr. Richard Passwater, one of my favorite authorities,

describes a study involving 17,894 participants

who had taken various amounts of vitamin E

for different periods of time.

 

The heart disease rate of these participants

was compared to that of the general population having identical

ages. In all instances, where persons consumed 400 IU or more of vitamin

E daily

for more than two years,

 

their rate of heart disease was significantly lower than normal (3

per 100 compared to 32 per 100).

The amount of heart disease in any age group decreased

proportionally with the length of time Vitamin E had been taken.

 

In fact, Dr. Passwater noted the length of time was more important

than the dosage beyond the minimum of 400 IU taken daily.

 

**Reverses Arteriosclerotic Damage—

 

Dr. Morgan Raiforth, a pioneering ophthalmologist, has shown with a

series of published photos, that arteriosclerotic damage in the

retinal

vessels can be reversed by using 1,200 IUs of vitamin E, and one to

three grams (1,000 to 3,000 mgs) of vitamin C on a daily basis.

 

**Protective Benefit After Bypass Surgery—

 

The School of Medicine at USC recently reported a study in which all

patients who had undergone bypass surgery were carefully monitored

for

new fatty deposits in their arteries by angiograms—a type of heart

x-ray.

 

The angiograms revealed that patients taking the most vitamin E had

much smaller lesions on their arteries than did those taking less

vitamin E or none at all.

The benefits were particularly noteworthy

because the men taking larger amounts of vitamin E began the study

with

higher blood levels of cholesterol.

 

**Since Vitamin E Has No Known Side Effects—

 

A number of physicians are apparently beginning to prescribe vitamin

E to their patients. I applaud their decision!

 

Dr. Shute also recommended 400 IUs of vitamin E as a preventive

measure.

He would increase this dosage to 800 to 1200 IUs daily. If you have

extreme high blood pressure, increase your vitamin E very slowly,

due to

its blood thinning effect at higher doses.

 

Protection from Heart Attack—

 

A study reported by the World Health Organization in Geneva,

Switzerland, reported that low blood levels of vitamin E was a more

important risk factor than either high cholesterol or high blood

pressure in deaths due to ischemic heart disease (heart attacks).

 

Many people assume that lowering cholesterol is the most important

thing

they can do to decrease their risk of heart attack.

This study provides documented evidence that increasing important

vitamins seems to be

more than twice as important in protecting a person from heart attack.

 

Our vitamin E levels need to be maintained!

 

 

**Heart Association Study—

 

The American Heart Associations annual science writer's meeting

showed

that vitamin E blocked negative changes in the bloodstream of men

given 800 IU daily for three month.

 

The Heart Association president, Dr. W. Virgil Brown of Emory

University in Atlanta, admitted, " most of us in medicine have

pooh-poohed mega doses of vitamins, but Dr. Ishwarlal Jialal's work has

a good ring to it. "

 

Dr. Jialal's work proposed in his study that " fats in the blood

stream become lodged in the blood vessel walls and begin to clog

arteries only

when they have chemically combined with oxygen to turn rancid, the

way butter does after being left out too long. "

 

Dr. Jialal supports the theory that heart disease begins when the

dangerous low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the major cholesterol

carrier,

is oxidized by particles in the bloodstream called free radicals.

 

Oxidized LDLs appear to begin the formation of blood vessel clogging

plaque that leads to atherosclerosis (plaque in the inner artery

wall)

or hardening of the arteries.

 

**Reducing the Risk with Antioxidants—

 

He further suggested that antioxidant nutrients may be instrumental

in

preventing LDL oxidation and reducing the risk of arteriosclerosis.

" We found that vitamin C, Vitamin E, and beta-carotene all inhibited

the

unwanted LDL oxidation and the early stages of plaque formation in

our laboratory studies. " He said.

 

He compared them to Probucol, a cholesterol-lowering drug.

Jialal concluded that both have antioxidant properties, but probucol

is

a drug and not free from *serious* side effects.

 

** Vitamin E Prevents Stickiness—

 

Along with its antioxidant properties, vitamin E acts as a

surfactant

(makes things slippery) so it minimizes the tendency of blood

platelets to stick together and form clots. A significant decrease in

adhesiveness (stickiness) of platelets was noted after only two weeks of

daily supplementation with 400 IU of vitamin E. This has important

implications for coronary artery disease. If platelets can be kept from

sticking together to form clots, and also kept from adhering to

vessel walls, the blood flow remains much more unobstructed and even.

 

**The Cambridge Heart Antioxidant Study—

 

Published in the Lancet, March 23, 1996, evaluated approximately

2,000 patients with a history of heart disease in a randomized,

controlled trial. Half received 400 to800 IU of vitamin E daily, the

others received a placebo. They were followed for a total of 510 days

and the

researchers noted a 75 percent reduction in heart attacks for the

vitamin E group, compared to the placebo group. These research

studies

go on to explain the benefits of vitamin E, which was from

supplements rather than foods.

 

 

 

JoAnn Guest

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