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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Should You Really Take Vitamin E?

Great article from Life Extension

Check your vitamin E supplement label and you will most likely find only alpha tocopherol on it. Food naturally contains all four members - alpha, -beta, -delta and gamma tocopherol (also known as mixed tocopherols).

When vitamin E was first discovered in 1922, scientists mistakenly concluded that it was a single compound - d-alpha tocopherol - and for the next 70-80 years, vitamin E supplements contained only d-alpha tocopherol.

It was only in the last decade that scientists discovered the benefits of the long-ignored "black-sheep" members - d-gamma, d- delta and d-beta tocopherol - which have anti-inflammatory and cardioprotective activity.

Juice Plus is whole food & naturaly contains the variety of tocopherols.