How Much Vitamin E Is Enough? High Cholesterol May Make A Difference

Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 14:21 in Health & Medicine

A new study has found that high levels of blood lipids such as cholesterol and triglycerides can keep Vitamin E, an essential micronutrient, tied up in the blood stream, and prevent vitamin E from reaching the tissues that need it. That means measuring only blood levels may offer a distorted picture of whether or not a person has adequate amounts of the vitamin, and that past methods of estimating tissue levels are flawed. read more

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