Dave..I stopped waiting my time w Vit E thirty five years ago. Here are so many things out there now proven to affect a healing of alzheimers so much more effevely. Look into the super blue green algae...omega from New Earth.com also the muscadine grape seed extracts from naturespearlproducts.com Those are the tops on the planet..ive been using them for almost thirty years and at my age I guess I can claim bragging rights. I have clients using them both nd their doctor keeps reducing the drugs prescribed that is causing the problems in the first place. Go gluton free and eat ONLY organic free range proteins. Tara
On 8/27/13, Dan Nave <[email protected]> wrote: > Vitamin E and Alzheimer's > > Reference: Mangialasche Neurobiol Aging > > Vitamin E, in it’s alpha-tocopherol form has been a bit of bust as a > supplement to prevent aging related cognitive decline. That has been a big > disappointment too. It didn’t work with heart disease (least week) and it > made prostate cancer worse, (two weeks ago). But we keep trying because > Vitamin E from food sources has been shown to slow down mild cognitive > decline and has been inversely associated with Alzheimer’s disease. What > gives? > > It’s the same old story you have heard for the last two weeks so the > pattern should feel familiar. When you look at all the Vitamin Es, you > find that there are 8 of them, four in the tocopherol family and four in > the trienol family. Dr Mangialasche reviewed a Swedish and a Finnish > population against all the Vitamin Es, including the tocotrienols. In his > study he found that gamma-tocopherols was the most protective in the > Finnish patients, while the Swedish study showed that total toco and > trienols reduced Alzheimer’s risk as much as 50%. He calls for more > research to tease out the protective effect that we find from the whole > family of E’s compared to simply alpha-tocophreol. But it is clear that a > single one won’t do the work. You need the whole mix of the rich family, > and that’s what you get from whole foods. > > Another way to do aging research is to examine what difference chemicals do > to nematode worms that are very simple creatures. Whether this research > extends to humans is another question, but it is interesting for basic > science questions. Nematode worms only live 3 weeks so you can get a > pretty rapid turnaround in research questions. Their immune defense > degrades rapidly and they get invaded by opportunistic bacteria. All in 3 > weeks. Gamma tocotrienols extends their life span by markedly increasing > their defense to infection. Alpha tocopherol, classical Vitamin E, blocks > any improvement. Again, another example of the classical simply Vitamin E > causing a problem by blocking the other family members. > > In nature, there is likely going to be some utility to the blocking effect > of Alpha tocopherol. But right now, it’s the major Vitamin E that’s being > studied. We see a positive effect of Vitamin E when we have the whole > family, all 8 of them, combined. We see a net negative affect when we give > a supplementary unbalanced amount of just the single alpha-tocopherol. > What’s a person to do? > > WWW. What Will Work for Me? I’m seriously thinking about starting to > take Vitamin E again, but just as the toco-trienol form. That is the form > that we seem to see the most protective effect on heart disease, cancer and > Alzheimer’s when you put the sum of them all together. And that’s likely > the form we have lost the most from our diets when we stop eating whole > foods in balance, that are freshly prepared and eaten from local sources. > The story is still to play out and I look forward to seeing more meaningful > research. But I’m not throwing out the idea that the Vitamin E’s are > possibly valuable. My old bottle of alpha-tocopherol – that I threw out. > You should too. > > > > © 2013 Brookfield Longevity > > Brookfield Longevity, 17585 W North Ave, Suite 160, Brookfield, WI 53045 > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]>
