Vitamin E (Mixed Tocopherols and Tocotrienols) — answers to vitamin E
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A fat-soluble vitamin that occurs as eight related forms — four tocopherols and four tocotrienols — with alpha-tocopherol being the form the body preferentially retains and the one most dietary requirements are based on.
Why it’s used
Taken to meet vitamin E requirements or correct a deficiency, and used by some for general antioxidant support.
What the evidence is for
meeting vitamin E requirement and correcting deficiency.
What the evidence says
NIH ODS describes vitamin E as essential, with clear deficiency states in people with fat-malabsorption conditions; large trials have not supported supplemental vitamin E for preventing heart disease or cancer in generally well-nourished adults, and tocotrienols specifically have a much smaller human evidence base than alpha-tocopherol.
Dose studied
15–1000 mg — adult RDA up to the tolerable upper intake level, per NIH ODS.
Context
NIH ODS lists an RDA of 15 mg/day alpha-tocopherol for adults and a tolerable upper intake level of 1,000 mg/day from supplemental forms; most clinical trial evidence concerns alpha-tocopherol rather than mixed tocotrienols.
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