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Vit E absorption: Huge Variation

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  1. oregonstate.educereal.htm

    CORVALLIS - A new study has found that cereal fortified with
    vitamin E has a very high rate of absorption into the
    bloodstream, whereas pills taken separately with the same
    food have inconsistent effects, and taking the supplements
    alone is largely useless. ETC I just wonder how many
    previous studies in volved people swallowing a pill with a
    glass of water. JOhn

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    oregonstate.educe
    real.htm

    CORVALLIS - A new study has found that cereal fortified
    with vitamin E has


    a

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    very high rate of absorption into the bloodstream, whereas
    pills taken separately with the same food have
    inconsistent effects, and taking the supplements alone is
    largely useless. ETC I just wonder how many previous
    studies in volved people swallowing a pill with a glass of
    water. JOhn

    A good question. I'm making sure to always take my Vitamin E
    with something fatty like meat, yogurt, cheese, bread with
    butter, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant
    majority of the population haven't any idea that Vitamin E
    needs fat for absorption. Why don't they include it in the
    Vitamin E caplet to begin with, say, with some fish oil?

    -Chad

  3. Most of the vitamin E I have seen is in oil form.

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    oregonstate.educer
    eal.htm

    CORVALLIS - A new study has found that cereal fortified
    with vitamin E


    has

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    a

    Quoted message said:

    very high rate of absorption into the bloodstream,
    whereas pills taken separately with the same food have
    inconsistent effects, and taking the supplements alone
    is largely useless. ETC I just wonder how many previous
    studies in volved people swallowing a


    pill

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    with a glass of water. JOhn

    A good question. I'm making sure to always take my
    Vitamin E with


    something

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    fatty like meat, yogurt, cheese, bread with butter, etc. I
    wouldn't be surprised if a significant majority of the
    population haven't any idea


    that

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    Vitamin E needs fat for absorption. Why don't they include
    it in the


    Vitamin

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    E caplet to begin with, say, with some fish oil?

    -Chad

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    oregonstate.educer
    eal.htm

    CORVALLIS - A new study has found that cereal fortified
    with vitamin E has a very high rate of absorption into
    the bloodstream, whereas pills taken separately with the
    same food have inconsistent effects, and taking the
    supplements alone is largely useless. ETC I just wonder
    how many previous studies involved people swallowing a
    pill with a glass of water. JOhn

    A good question. I'm making sure to always take my Vitamin
    E with something fatty like meat, yogurt, cheese, bread
    with butter, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant
    majority of the population haven't any idea that Vitamin E
    needs fat for absorption. Why don't they include it in the
    Vitamin E caplet to begin with, say, with some fish oil?

    -Chad

    A variety of options would likely improve vitamin E uptake
    from supplements. First as mentioned the simple act of
    taking the supplement with the fattest meal of the day. or
    taking it with a tablespoon of lecithin would help. Water
    dispersable forms would improve uptake. I recently ran
    across an article in a nutrition journal about vitamin A
    supplements that has application in this situation. It was
    entitled "Water-miscible, emulsified, and solid forms of
    retinol supplements are more toxic than oil-based
    preparations." You can tell the extreme bias of these
    authors (IMO) as the paper should have been entitled "Water-
    miscible, emulsified, and solid forms of retinol have such
    greatly increased absorption such that hypervitaminosis is a
    risk without dose reductions to compensate." Apparently, the
    absorption is increased 10 fold when that fat soluble
    vitamin as water-miscible and emulsified supplement. AJCN
    Vol. 78, No. 6, 1152-1159, Dec 2003

    This lesson should apply to other fat soluble vitamins.

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    Most of the vitamin E I have seen is in oil form.

    Do you mean with fat? Which fat in particular is used
    with the Vitamin E?

    -Chad

  6. I have no idea.

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    Most of the vitamin E I have seen is in oil form.

    Do you mean with fat? Which fat in particular is used
    with the Vitamin E?

    -Chad

  7. They seem to make it from wheatgerm oil.
    John
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    I have no idea.

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    Most of the vitamin E I have seen is in oil form.

    Do you mean with fat? Which fat in particular is
    used with the


    Vitamin

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    E?

    -Chad


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