Vitamin E recommendations please (HypoT4/coeliac)

[fred1e]

Hi, I have seen a few people mentioning Vitamin E supplementation recently for anxiety, and as I also have coeliac disease to go with my autoimmune hypothyroid, and may therefore have a deficient level of Vit E due to malabsorption....I would love some recommendations as to brand and dose!

Obviously needs to be gluten free.

Thanks.

[humanbean]

Vitamin E is complicated. It is actually a combination of eight different substances - four tocopherols and four tocotrienols - and taking just one of the eight substances is not sufficient for good health.

Synthetic vitamin E is not biochemically the same as natural vitamin E and you can tell the difference from the ingredient lists.

On a supplement label, natural vitamin E is listed as d-alpha tocopherol, d-alpha tocopheryl acetate, or d-alpha tocopheryl succinate. In contrast, synthetic forms of vitamin E are labelled with a dl- prefix.

Both the tocopherols and tocotrienols occur in α (alpha), β (beta), γ (gamma) and δ (delta) forms. Many vitamin E supplements contain only d-alpha tocopherol or dl-alpha tocopherol and miss out the other seven substances.

This might be useful :

chiro.org/nutrition/FULL/Na...

but for more information do a web search for "natural synthetic vitamin E"

[fred1e in reply to humanbean]

Thank you...yes I am aware of all the ins and outs of Vitamin E ( I have a horse with deficiency issues, so am well versed in the complexities!)Many different versions come up on searches, so I was just looking for some personal experiences..Thanks.

[jsy_girl]

I’ve just read the same thing so also interested. Did you decide anything? Wondering if there are downsides to supplementing vitamin E? It isn’t something I’ve heard of doing much before

[fred1e in reply to jsy_girl]

I’ve just ordered one...I’ll let you know!

[aspenca]

I use bodymanual.com Vit E. It has all 8 (4/tocopherols and 4/tocotrienols). It is good and has raised my Vit. E levels. You have to be careful with Vit. E. It can build up and give you chest pressure/pain/etc. If you get anything that just has "mixed" tocopherols/tocotrienols but does not list the "exact" Mgs and breaks them down then I would steer away.

[fred1e in reply to aspenca]

Thank you for your reply...unfortunately can’t get that one in UK, but hopefully have found a similar one....out of interest, are you coeliac too?