Does vitamin E have any function unrelated to its antioxidant activity?
According to some people, vitamin E is not an antioxidant! The problem is that it’s very difficult to distinguish antioxidant from biologic effects because vitamin E can change the fluidity of the cellular membrane. For example, there are all kinds of factors that have been shown to be modulated by vitamin E in cell culture. It is still an open question—what does vitamin E do? It is certainly an antioxidant, but if that is the only answer, why do we need only alpha-tocopherol and not theother forms? If vitamin E acts as an antioxidant, why does the body exclude those other forms? And if it is not working only as an antioxidant, what else does it do? We still don’t know. Q: Vitamin E has a long history of use for heart disease. Do you think that it prevents heart disease or has any value in treating it? A: We really can’t answer this yet. Results from intervention studies in which vitamin E is given to subjects who have heart disease in order to find out if it prevents second heart atta
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