Should I add Vitamin E to the flax oil to stabilise it (prevent it from going rancid)/should I take Vitamin E along with flaxseed oil to prevent oxidation within the body?
Flax seed are better than flax seed oil.
see this research article:
Meta-analysis of the effects of flaxseed interventions on blood lipids
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 90: 288-297, 2009
Objective: We aimed to identify and quantify the effectiveness of flaxseed and its derivatives on blood lipid profiles.
Design: A comprehensive literature search was performed on the basis of English reports of randomized controlled trials offlaxseed or its derivatives on lipid profiles in adults, which were published from January 1990 to October 2008. Attempts also were made to access unpublished data. Study quality was assessed by using the Jadad score, and a meta-analysis was conducted.
Results: Twenty-eight studies were included. Flaxseed interventions reduced total and LDL cholesterol by 0.10 mmol/L (95% CI: –0.20, 0.00 mmol/L) and 0.08 mmol/L (95% CI: –0.16, 0.00 mmol/L), respectively; significant reductions were observed with whole flaxseed (–0.21 and –0.16 mmol/L, respectively) and lignan (–0.28 and –0.16 mmol/L, respectively) supplements but not with flaxseed oil. The cholesterol-lowering effects were more apparent in females (particularly postmenopausal women), individuals with high initial cholesterol concentrations, and studies with higher Jadad scores. No significant changes were found in the concentrations of HDL cholesterol and triglycerides.
Conclusions: Flaxseed significantly reduced circulating total and LDL-cholesterol concentrations, but the changes were dependent on the type of intervention, sex, and initial lipid profiles of the subjects. Further studies are needed to determine the efficiency of flaxseed on lipid profiles in men and premenopausal women and to explore its potential benefits on other cardiometabolic risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
It is true that taking vitamin E along with flaxseed oil makes it more stable and prevents (or reduces) oxidation within the body. But it is this oxidation quality that makes it effective in interaction with the sulphur containing proteins. If you interfere with this oxygen affinity of flaxseed oil – this readiness to accept oxygen – you interfere with the capacity of the Budwig Protocol to restore respiration. Therefore, supplemental antioxidants from a certain level on can present a problem. Dr. Budwig writes in her book Cancer – The Problem and the Solution, p. 50: “Fats that have industrially been made stable against oxygen acceptance, also oppose the oxygen uptake by the living tissue through auto-oxidation.” In her book “Der Tod des Tumors” (The Death of the Tumor) she writes that antioxidants added to oils are (respiratory) poisons. In the same book she writes on page 161: “Overdosing with isolated Vitamin E works as an antioxidant, thus it opposes the oxygen utilization in the
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