Vitamin E...

Here are some outstanding properties and testimonies related to or on Vitamin E:

• "About half of all U.S adults take vitamin E supplements, but most vitamin E supplements contain only one kind of vitamin E - alpha tocopherol - but not the others.... I recommend taking vitamin E supplements that includes the entire spectrum of all the natural vitamin Es, tocopherols and tocotrienols."
  
  
• "(Vitamin E's) role in the antioxidant network, where it functions as the body's primary fat-soluble antioxidant."
  
  
• "Since vitamin E is soluble in fat, and not in blood,...in order to travel through the bloodstream, vitamin E must be carried in a complex particle called a lipoprotien, which is produced in the liver and travels through the blood, delivering fat and cholesterol to cells for growth and maintenance."
  
  
• "Low density lipoprotein [LDL] (bad cholesterol), delivers cholesterol to the tissues. High-density lipoprotein [HDL] (good cholesterol), carries cholesterol back to the liver to be excreted in the bile.... A high cholesterol level is an indication that your body is not processing lipoproteins rapidly enough, which means that lipoproteins are lingering in your blood stream."
  
  
• "(Vitamin E) is involved in signalling pathways that turn on and off genes and regulate cell growth... (It) inhibits protein kinase C activity, which activates enzymes that stimulate tumor growth."
  
  
• A study conducted once by a researcher with the National Institute on Aging invloves the consumption of vitamin E among 11,798 people of ages 65 to 105. It was found that 'those who took vitamin E supplements daily were 41% less likely to have died from cancer, and 40% less likely to have died from heart disease, than people who didn't...'
  
  
• "(Vitamin E) can prevent aging on the cellular level, which is where the aging process begins."
  
  
• Lipofuscin is an age pigment. A then professor at University of California at Davis, grew some cells 'in a nutrient-deprived environment but added 100 mcg of vitamin E'. It was reported that 'they did not develop lipofuscin (as those grown in only a nutrient-deprived environment). The cells remained 'young'... Maintaining cellular health is the key to preventing the diseases of aging...'
  
  
• In another experiment, when human cells were exposed 'to visible light at their 25th doubling (roughly middle age), they died rapidly because the light initiated the formation of free radicals that damaged these cells.' However, when the cells were pre-treated with high levels of vitamin E, 'they all survived and lived out their normal life span.'