Medically reviewed by Femi Aremu, PharmD Vitamin E and selenium are essential nutrients that help your body stay healthy. Acting as antioxidants, they protect cells from damage caused by unstable ...

Natural vitamin E contains 8 isoforms, of which four are alpha, beta, gamma and delta-tocotrienols. They differ because of the presence or absence of a methyl (-CH3) group at the 2, 4’ and 8 ...

Parker also studied the metabolism of tocopherol to CEHC by cultured cells and the inhibition of its metabolism by ketoconozole, and suggested that cytochrome P4503A might be involved in vitamin E ...

Vitamin E may help bones adapt to changes in weight and activity in adults and the elderly, he says. "We suspect that dietary vitamin E has a specific role in maintaining normal bone formation and in ...