Intermission time? OK. Vitamin-E is the most common deficiency in the standard American diet. Look at page 8 here:
https://www.ars.usda...bles2001-02.pdf
93%? YIKES! Vitamin-E is the bodies primary lipid antioxidant, and has been shown helpful with inflammation in fatty livers (PIVENS trial), and also slows progression of Alzheimer's, which makes me think it might also be a good prophylactic (neural myelin sheaths 70-80% lipids).
I supplement with a fairly low dose (200IU) of "Natural" form Vitamin-E with "mixed tocopherols".
There are actually 4 different forms of Vitamin-E (and 4 different forms of related tocotrienols) and mega-dosing the alpha form (found in most simple E supps) has been found to suppress activity of the lesser forms. Gamma-E is supposed to be particularly important, and wise not to crush by taking too much alpha-E. I've tried taking "High Gamma" E formulations, but something about high gamma smells awful & makes me queasy.
Natural Vitamin-E with mixed tocopherols contains predominantly alpha-E, but also provides low doses of the other 3 toco's, which is better than a stand alone alpha-E. I used to also take a tocotrienol supp, but discontinued these for a reason I can't recall right now.
To tie this into the topic at hand... I recommend avoiding mega-dosing of E in any form, but like most "essential nutrients", modest supplementation is probably wise; particularly when it comes to the most common deficiency of all the essential vitamins.
Edited by Dorian Grey, 16 November 2018 - 03:22 AM.