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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.