Natural Vitamin E Dramatically Reduces Heart Disease

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Natural Vitamin E Dramatically Reduces Heart Disease

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron39.htm

Byron Richards, CCN

 

 

A new randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled cardiovascular study

evaluating natural vitamin E, synthetic vitamin C, and synthetic beta-carotene

shows that natural vitamin E significantly reduced heart disease and is a

wonderful dietary supplement for any person concerned about their heart and

cardiovascular health. The primary end point of the study was to determine the

prevention of either cardiovascular death or serious cardiovascular disease.

Natural

vitamin E showed an impressive and statistically significant 13% reduction.

Natural vitamin E also showed improvement in secondary end points of the study,

including a 22% reduction in heart attacks, a 27% reduction in strokes (31% when

combined with vitamin C), and a 9% reduction in cardiovascular death. These

results for natural vitamin E are nothing short of astounding as they used the

gold standard of human testing!

 

In an absolutely unbelievable reporting of their own study information the

authors erroneously concluded “There were no overall effects of ascorbic acid,

vitamin E, or beta carotene on cardiovascular events among women at high risk

for cardiovascular disease.†This is a flat out lie based on their own study

data that they report in the American Medical Association’s Archives of

Internal

Medicine http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/167/15/1610 . They

concocted this false and misleading conclusion by including the people who said

they were supposed to be taking vitamin E but really didn’t take the vitamin

E in the final statistical analysis. The study participants who actually took

the natural vitamin E had the dramatic benefits listed in the first paragraph,

which the authors failed to report in the study abstract. Instead, the

authors fed a false and negatively slanted view of the study to the media, none

of

whom bothered to check the actual study. The media then proceeded to spread a

false negative view of truly remarkable findings on vitamin E and heart health.

 

 

Taking a Closer Look at the Study Results

 

The following two paragraphs are what the study actually says about vitamin

E. The first paragraph says that vitamin E did not do much of anything, which

is what the authors reported. The second paragraph says that when they

re-evaluated the Vitamin E data by removing people from the vitamin E group who

failed

to actually take the vitamin E, the results were extremely good. This is the

important information about what natural vitamin E actually did. The authors

didn’t tell the media about this and the media didn’t bother looking into

the

study.

 

VITAMIN E

 

No differences were seen in the primary end point by randomized vitamin E

assignment (RR, 0.94; 95% CI, 0.85-1.04 [P=.23]) (Table 2 and Figure 2), with no

significant variation in the relative risk over time. We found a

nonsignificant 16% reduction in total stroke, with a 21% reduction in ischemic

stroke

(P=.06) and an increase in hemorrhagic stroke based on small numbers. There was

an

overall 10% reduction in the combination of MI, stroke, and CVD death, with a

nonsignificant decrease (P=.08) in benefit over time. No difference in total

mortality by vitamin E group was found.

 

Censoring participants on noncompliance led to a significant 13% reduction in

the primary end point (RR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.76-0.99 [P=.04]). Reductions in

secondary study end points were also stronger, with a 22% reduction in MI (RR,

0.78; 95% CI, 0.58-1.06 [P=.11]), a 27% reduction in stroke (RR, 0.73; 95% CI,

0.54-0.98 [P=.04]), and a 9% reduction in CVD mortality (RR, 0.91; 95% CI,

0.66-1.25 [P=.55]). There was a 23% reduction in the combination of MI, stroke,

or CVD death (RR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.64-0.92 [P=.005]). Among those with prior

CVD, the active vitamin E group experienced fewer major CVD events (RR, 0.89;

95%

CI, 0.79-1.00 [P=.04]; P value for interaction, .07) (Table 3).

 

In order for a result to be statistically significant the P value must be

less than .05. In this case the primary end point of the study, the 27%

reduction

in stroke, the 23% reduction in the combination of MI (heart attack), stroke,

or CVD death, and the fewer major CVD events in those with a history of CVD

were all statistically significant. These are the impressive results of the

people who actually took the natural vitamin E.

 

Vitamin E has Been Wrongly Attacked Before

 

As I have pointed out in my previous writing, Vitamin E has been viciously

and fraudulently attacked by powerful vested interests, especially researchers

funded primarily by Big Pharma. This has nothing to do with real science, and

everything to do with a media-backed Big Pharma PR machine trying to convince

Americans to take toxic and health-deteriorating drugs instead of safe and

effective vitamins. It is likely the study authors, researchers of the heavily

Big

Pharma-backed Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)

http://www.newstarget.com/021974.html , an affiliate of Harvard Medical School,

were pressured into

writing findings that negated vitamin E. Or else the study authors were totally

biased and could not believe the spectacular vitamin E results.

 

In the current study the natural form of vitamin E used was d alpha

tocopherol acetate at the dose of 600 IU every other day. Even this form of

vitamin E

could have been improved upon by using a full mixture of tocopherols or the

truly superior tocotrienols. However, at least it was a high quality form of

natural vitamin E that was used, unlike studies that used synthetic vitamin E

and

produced questionable outcomes. Consumers should always avoid synthetic

vitamin E, which has an “l†after the “dâ€, so it looks like “dl

alpha†on the

label instead of “d alpha.â€

 

Synthetic Beta Carotene did not Help the Heart – No Surprise

 

I would also like to point out that the synthetic beta carotene used in the

study (Lurotin from the BASF, 50 mg every other day) is the same worthless

compound found to increase lung cancer in smokers. This pathetic “vitaminâ€

is

produced by a German drug company that is actively participating to have

vitamins

regulated worldwide as well as to promote synthetic vitamins as no different

than natural. Since the end of the 1930s BASF has been pouring millions of

tons of coal tar-derived food coloring into our food supply, poisoning our

citizens - with the blessings of the Big Pharma-owned FDA. The Germans like to

synthesize vitamins from chemical sources, as their own country is so poor in

natural resources that they can’t make anything from a real food source and

thus can

’t make a profit selling vitamins unless they are concocted from chemicals.

Synthetic beta carotene is made by extracting benzene rings from acetylene gas,

and then attaching the benzene rings together to form 100%

all-trans-beta-carotene. There is no food source that contains 100%

all-trans-beta-carotene.

 

One example of high quality natural beta carotene is the sea algae Dunaliella

salinas, which contains a mixture of 9-cis-beta carotene as well as

trans-beta-carotene along with related nutrients such as alpha-carotene,

cryptoxanthin,

and zeaxanthin. Natural source beta carotene contains a powerful complex of

nutrients not present in synthetic beta carotene. Research shows

http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/128/5/913.pdf that 9-cis-beta carotene

transports much

more efficiently in the body. My advice is to avoid synthetic beta carotene

which can always be identified because the natural source of the beta carotene

is not listed on the label.

 

 

Consumer Action is Needed

 

I have been working with Mike Adams over at NewsTarget.com to help get the

word out about the false impression the media has given the world about this

study. It is a shame that health-related politics, financial pressures, or

researcher bias prevent the publishing of the true meaning of an important

study,

especially when the findings would cause millions of consumers to abandon

dangerous drugs in favor of natural vitamin E. It is a shame that the media has

been

conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to spread Big Pharma sponsored anti-vitamin

bad news as if it is the truth. It is also a shame that important studies fail

to use the high quality forms of nutrients, proving only that synthetic

garbage does not work. A combination of antioxidants from natural sources is

primary

dietary support for the reduction of heart disease and cancer, as well as

naturally boosting the immune system – the science in this regard is

overwhelmingly positive.

 

 

You can help. Click on this link

http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/128/5/913.pdf to see all the media that

falsely reported on this study and demand

they make the proper correction. The various places to contact and a sample

letter can be found at this link. Your voice matters. We cannot allow Big Pharma

and the mainstream media to act with complete irresponsibility to promote

dangerous drugs while negating safe and effective natural options.