A NEW REPORT ON POSSIBLE BENEFIT OF VITAMIN E AND THE BRAIN

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People take vitamins. Lots of vitamins. There have been conflicting reports of the value of Vitamin E. Some studies say Vitamin E helps people and other studies say excess vitamin E can be harmful. In the latest salvo in the battle of Vitamin E, research suggests that Alzheimer's patient who took Vitamin E lived longer.




A study of Vitamin E and the impact on Alzheimer's suggested that those who took Vitamin E lived longer. "Alzheimer's patients who consume very high levels of vitamin E seem to live longer than those who do not, new research suggests. The study comes on the heels of growing concerns regarding the safety and efficacy of giving any patient whether suffering from Alzheimer's or another illness the high dosage in question: 2,000 international units (IUs) per day".






"The concern is that vitamin E will actually have a harmful effect, because a recent review of prior studies found that it had a slightly negative impact on mortality," said study author Valory Pavlik, an associate professor with the Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "But I think to our surprise the message really is that for the treatment of Alzheimer's in clinical practice, we did not find evidence that high doses of vitamin E reduced survival," she said. "In fact, patients who took vitamin E seemed to live longer, particularly when they took it in combination with a cholinesterase inhibitor."

High Doses of Vitamin E Lengthen Lives of Alzheimer's Patients