Vitamin Status on Health

Do vitamins help prevent or cure diseases? 

There is a tendency for many resources and health professionals to generalize about vitamins without much substance in support. When they are pressed to explain their views, it often turns out they are repeating what another professional said in the past. Over time this becomes the universally accepted and believed doctrine, even when the science changes and no longer supports the original assumptions.

People in America are not very healthy compared to many if not most other developed Countries in the World. The standard American diet (SAD) plays a major role in creating poor health issues. Can the proper usage of vitamin supplements mitigate adverse health conditions? article

This website breaks that mold and explores the little known science to find the real vitamin reality. You will be amazed at how much clarity there actually is available using the whole of scientific research. The controversial vitamin issues actually are not all that controversial. Rather, it is a lack of following exactly the scientific method that fails vitamin health issues. Many articles on this website attest to this shortcoming. Vitamins do have value in helping to prevent some diseases when properly used. A prevention action is much greater than curative ability for most vitamin supplements. This is due to how they function. See if you don't agree after reading some of the following:

• Vitamin E   All eight vitamin E members have a role to play in building health, not just alpha tocopherol. Notice the most protection against brain dementia comes from beta tocopherol, NOT from alpha tocopherol. Taking high amounts of just vitamin E as alpha tocopherol actually lowers the levels of the other E family members, including beta tocopherol. The alpha tocopherol only as vitamin E supplement approach promoted by the US Government is failing to adequately protect people. The accepted mainstream science here is totally WRONG. Saying that only alpha tocopherol is able to be called vitamin E or have E units is faulty. It was from day one some 70 years ago. ref article ref  
• Tocotrienols have valuable health functions not available from just alpha tocopherol.
• Co Enzyme Q10 on energy production to support a healthier heart.
• IP6 has influence to control the life span and death of prostate cancer cells. 
• Resveratrol might have beneficial functions for obesity and diabetes.
• CoQ10, Acetyl- L-Carnitine, and Omega 3 fish oils appear to help protect vision.

Is this enough to convince you of the value of proper vitamin supplement usage in health? Need some more support? Check out the next article highlighted below for areas that supplements might benefit.

• Another profound health article with many more health vitamin relationships. 
• Some vitamin studies yield positive results, a few find adverse effects, and many have null effects. The fact that vitamins have optimal windows for positive result amounts with both lower and higher often exhibiting negative results means that the beginning vitamin levels of test subjects in studies is critical for the final direction of findings. ref    
• Critical to study results warrants proper vitamin forms, dosages, and synergistic combinations. Primary use of family forms for Beta carotene, vitamins A, E, and C are also vital.

STORY EXAMPLE

A Doctor wanted to measure the blood level amounts for all of nature's eight vitamin E family members in heart patients versus those in healthy subjects. Vitamin E only contains d'alpha tocopherol, just one out of eight related members in nature. The Doctor discovered that people with heart disease had the same levels of d'alpha tocopherol as the healthy controls, while it was some of the other family forms that were lower in those with heart disease. Thus this finding calls into question the current definition of only d'alpha tocopherol to represent vitamin E. 

This is not to say d'alpha tocopherol in not vital, just that it is rather short-sighted to limit and use just one out of the 8 vitamin E family members found in food. While d'alpha tocopherol has great ability to neutralize oxygen radicals, it does not touch nitrogen radicals. This is where d'gamma tocopherol functions. Looks like all the vitamin E family members have important roles to play for heart health.

NOTE: It may very well be that increased d'alpha tocopherol is needed for heart disease. And it is nature that has a way to increase d'alpha tocopherol amounts since all the other 7 vitamin E members can be converted into d'alpha tocopherol in the body. This conversion than presents a new issue since all the other 3 tocopherol vitamin E forms would now be at reduced levels and not available for their needed protective functions. Functions that the d'alpha tocopherol form does not perform. Since d'gamma tocopherol is the most abundant other vitamin E, it's functions suffer the most when converted into d'alpha tocopherol.