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[health_nutty]

There is a common statement among those selling mixed tocopherol vitamin e products that say that vitamin E from the diet has a lot more gamma than alpha. This may or may not be true. Nuts that high in alpha tend to have very little gamma! Nuts that are high in gamma tend to have little alpha.

The point is:
Don't assume that the vitamin e you get from food is in the optimal ratio of tocopherols. For example if you eat a lot of sunflower seeds or almonds, you would get a lot of alpha and very little gamma tocopherol.

http://www.dietaryfi...m/Vitamin-E.php

Edited by health_nutty, 23 August 2007 - 12:09 AM.

[health_nutty]

Bonus article on gamma tocopherol, here a is snippet:

"In summary, our current study demonstrates that gamma T and its major metabolite, but not alpha T, inhibit COX activity and thus possess anti-inflammatory activity. Our data combined with the cited human and animal studies suggest that gamma T may be important in public health. It may be that the inclusion of both alpha T and gamma T in vitamin E supplements is more effective in human disease prevention, especially considering that alpha T supplementation depresses gamma T in human plasma and adipose tissue"

http://www.pnas.org/...ull/97/21/11494

[health_nutty]

Bump, I'm surprised nobody commented on this. It was news to me.

[shadowrun]

I find this interesting myself, I stopped taking a Vitamin E supplement and replaced it with Almonds...

I wonder what the bioavailable sources of Gamma are?

[Shepard]

I wonder what the bioavailable sources of Gamma are?

Maybe this will help:

http://www.nutrition...00000000-3.html