From The New Yorker
Surely there is an unsafe amount of vitamin E just as there is an unsafe amount for everything. The question is where one draws the line.
Review
Dr. Roberts...properly raises reasonable doubt about the safety of Vitamin E in large doses, both for consumers and health professionals, on the basis of his pioneering observations and extensive research. -- Frank Ray Rifkin, Publisher, Nutrition Health Review
Vitamin E is not a benign vitamin that you can take like vitamin C if you think you're getting a cold. It is--and we need to stress this--a pharmacologic agent. -- Journal of the American Medical Association (V.244:1077, 1980 )
With a minimum of medicalese, Dr. Roberts describes the many clinical problems personally encountered in medical practice attributable to mega doses of vitamin E, either prescribed or as self-medication for a long list of presumed indications. He comments on the potential hazards from such "seduction by authority", the exaggerated clinical inferences of antioxidant "therapy" (espeacially since vitamin E is also a pro-oxidant), the "negative" results in purportedly controlled studies, and the widespread denial or trivialization of the problem. This is a courageous and one-of-a-kind talk that deserves widespread attention by health-conscious persons, doctors and nutritionists. -- Publisher
Vitamin E is not a benign vitamin that you can take like vitamin C if you think you're getting a cold. It is--and we need to stress this--a pharmacologic agent. -- Journal of the American Medical Association (V.244:1077, 1980 )
With a minimum of medicalese, Dr. Roberts describes the many clinical problems personally encountered in medical practice attributable to mega doses of vitamin E, either prescribed or as self-medication for a long list of presumed indications. He comments on the potential hazards from such "seduction by authority", the exaggerated clinical inferences of antioxidant "therapy" (espeacially since vitamin E is also a pro-oxidant), the "negative" results in purportedly controlled studies, and the widespread denial or trivialization of the problem. This is a courageous and one-of-a-kind talk that deserves widespread attention by health-conscious persons, doctors and nutritionists. -- Publisher
