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4 Vitamins That Can Save Your Life - D,C,E,B |
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 07:01 |
4 Vitamins That Can Save Your Life
By Sylvia Booth Hubbard
#3 - Vitamin E
A powerful antioxidant, vitamin E boosts immunity and helps neutralize free radicals that damage cells and lead to many illnesses including Alzheimer's, cancer, and diabetes. Vitamin E is composed of eight subtypes: four tocopherols and four tocotrienols.
A recent study found that high levels of vitamin E in the blood reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in old age, and a study at Cornell University and Brigham and Women's Hospital discovered that regular use of vitamin E lowers the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Several large studies have suggested that vitamin E reduces the risk of heart attack in both men and women. Experts believe vitamin E lowers the risk of stroke and coronary artery disease by reducing cholesterol and plaque buildup, and a recent study found that tocotrienols can prevent nerve cells from dying following a stroke — at least in mice.
Studies have shown that tocotrienols can inhibit the growth of breast cancer cells by as much as 50 percent.
Vitamin E is found in whole grains, nuts, vegetable oils, liver, egg yolk, and avocado. The RDA is 30 IU, but Dr. Russell Blaylock, author of The Blaylock Wellness Report, recommends 1,000 IU of natural mixed tocopherols daily.
People who take blood thinners should consult with their physician before taking vitamin E supplements because the nutrient can act as an anti-coagulant and possibly increase the risk of bleeding.
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High levels of vitamin E in the blood reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in old age, says a new study. Italian and Swedish researchers found that several components of vitamin E helped prevent cognitive deterioration in people 80 years of age and older.
"Vitamin E is a family of eight natural components, but most studies related to Alzheimer's disease investigate only one of these components, tocopherol," Dr. Francesca Mangialasche, who led the study, said in a statement. "We hypothesized that all the vitamin E family members could be important in protecting against AD. If confirmed, this result has implications for both individuals and society, as 70 percent of all dementia cases in the general population occur in people more than 75 years of age, and the study suggests a protective effect of vitamin E against AD in individuals aged 80 plus."
The researchers studied 232 people who were 80 years or older and were free of dementia at the beginning of the study. After six years, they identified 57 cases of Alzheimer's disease.
At the beginning of the study, the blood levels of all eight natural components of vitamin E were measured. People with higher blood levels were compared with those subjects who had lower blood levels. The scientists found that seniors with the higher blood levels of all the forms of vitamin E reduced their risk of developing Alzheimer's by 45 to 54 percent, depending on the levels of specific components.
Mangialasche noted that the protective effect of vitamin E appears to be related to the combination of the different forms. Along this line, another recent study suggested that supplements containing high doses of the tocopherol component of vitamin E may increase mortality, indicating that such dietary supplements, if not balanced in the body, may be more harmful than previously thought.
"Elderly people as a group are large consumers of vitamin E supplements, which usually contain only tocopherol, and this is often at high doses," says Mangialasche. "Our findings need to be confirmed by other studies, but they open up the possibility that the balanced presence of different vitamin E forms can have an important neuroprotective effect."
According to the Alzheimer's Association, 5.3 million Americans have the disease, and it is the seventh leading cause of death. |
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Vitamin E–Rich Foods May Reduce Long-Term Risk for Dementia |
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Monday, 26 July 2010 08:35 |
Vitamin E–Rich Foods May Reduce Long-Term Risk for Dementia
Allison Gandey
July 22, 2010 — Vitamin E may play a modest role in altering the course of dementia, say researchers. Compared with participants with the lowest intake, investigators found that those patients with higher vitamin E intake were 25% less likely to develop dementia.
"When beta-amyloid — a hallmark of pathologic Alzheimer disease — accumulates in the brain, an inflammatory response is likely evoked that produces nitric oxide radicals and downstream neurodegenerative effects," report investigators led by Elizabeth Devore, ScD, from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
"Vitamin E is a powerful fat-soluble antioxidant that may help to inhibit the pathogenesis of dementia."
Number of Alzheimer cases by dietary vitamin E intake.
The results appear in the July issue of the Archives of Neurology and suggest that dietary antioxidants affect the early stages of dementia.
Vitamin E is found in whole-grain foods, eggs, milk, nuts, seeds, avocado, spinach, and unheated vegetable oils. The Rotterdam Study previously found that higher dietary intakes of vitamins E and C were associated with a lower risk for dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
In this new long-term follow-up of the Rotterdam Study, investigators followed participants for 9.6 years. The population-based prospective cohort study included 5395 people free of disease at baseline.
A total of 465 people developed dementia. Of these, 365 were diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The investigators found that higher dietary intake of vitamin E, but not vitamin C, beta carotene, or flavonoids, was associated with lower long-term risk for dementia.
These results conflict with previous findings, which suggested a link between vitamin C intake and dementia risk. "The result was modest in our analysis," note the investigators, who reported a hazard ratio of 0.66 (95% confidence interval, 0.44 - 1.00). "Chance is the most likely explanation," they add. "Alternatively, vitamin C intake could be important exclusively at later stages of dementia development, but this is less likely because results of previous studies suggest that dietary antioxidants affect early stages of dementia pathogenesis."
Long-Term Prospective Study
The investigators adjusted for age, education, apolipoprotein E ε4 genotype, total energy, alcohol intake, smoking habits, body mass index, and supplement use. They found that higher vitamin E intake at study baseline was associated with lower long-term risk for dementia (P = .02 for trend).
Asked by Medscape Medical News to comment, Maria Carrillo, PhD, senior director of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association, pointed out the National Institutes of Health have been calling for long-term prospective studies such as this one. "These are important studies, and this one was conducted by a fantastic, internationally renowned group."
Dr. Carrillo acknowledged the finding is preliminary — it is still too early for specific recommendations on vitamin E intake, and excessive use can have negative cardiovascular effects, she said.
"Future studies should continue to evaluate dietary intake of antioxidants relative to dementia risk," note the investigators, "including different points at which antioxidant intake might modulate risk."
This study was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, the National Institutes of Health, and a US Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands. The researchers have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Arch Neurol. 2010;67:819-825. Abstract
High levels of vitamin E in the blood reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in old age, says a new study. Italian and Swedish researchers found that several components of vitamin E helped prevent cognitive deterioration in people 80 years of age and older.
"Vitamin E is a family of eight natural components, but most studies related to Alzheimer's disease investigate only one of these components, tocopherol," Dr. Francesca Mangialasche, who led the study, said in a statement. "We hypothesized that all the vitamin E family members could be important in protecting against AD. If confirmed, this result has implications for both individuals and society, as 70 percent of all dementia cases in the general population occur in people more than 75 years of age, and the study suggests a protective effect of vitamin E against AD in individuals aged 80 plus."
The researchers studied 232 people who were 80 years or older and were free of dementia at the beginning of the study. After six years, they identified 57 cases of Alzheimer's disease.
At the beginning of the study, the blood levels of all eight natural components of vitamin E were measured. People with higher blood levels were compared with those subjects who had lower blood levels. The scientists found that seniors with the higher blood levels of all the forms of vitamin E reduced their risk of developing Alzheimer's by 45 to 54 percent, depending on the levels of specific components.
Mangialasche noted that the protective effect of vitamin E appears to be related to the combination of the different forms. Along this line, another recent study suggested that supplements containing high doses of the tocopherol component of vitamin E may increase mortality, indicating that such dietary supplements, if not balanced in the body, may be more harmful than previously thought.
"Elderly people as a group are large consumers of vitamin E supplements, which usually contain only tocopherol, and this is often at high doses," says Mangialasche. "Our findings need to be confirmed by other studies, but they open up the possibility that the balanced presence of different vitamin E forms can have an important neuroprotective effect."
According to the Alzheimer's Association, 5.3 million Americans have the disease, and it is the seventh leading cause of death. |
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Work Out Hard to Avoid Dementia |
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Friday, 16 July 2010 08:36 |
Work Out Hard to Avoid Dementia
By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: July 15, 2010
HONOLULU -- Unlike heart disease, which can potentially be prevented with moderate exercise, it's more intense physical activity that may stave off dementia, researchers said here.
In an analysis of data from the Framingham Heart Study, patients who reported moderate to heavy physical activity had a significant 45% lower risk of all-cause dementia compared with light exercisers (P=0.003), according to Zaldy S. Tan, MD, of Harvard, and colleagues.
They reported their findings here at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease.
But it's "not necessarily only heavy physical activity that can reduce risk [of dementia]," Tan told MedPage Today. "But we can fairly say at least moderate exercise seems to be protective."
Still, Tan cautioned that it is "premature to say we need to exercise in order to prevent dementia because we don't have that data."
Several epidemiological studies have shown a link between exercise and dementia, although some large cohort studies have not come up with similar conclusions. Yet these had shorter follow-up, and Tan and colleagues wanted to assess older patients -- those who lived into the eighth decade.
"It's worth noting that this group is fairly advanced in age, while other studies have looked at younger patients," Tan said.
So they looked at data from Framingham 1986-1987, which recorded measures of physical activity. Specifically, it included a 24-hour assessment of hours spent performing different tasks and assigning each of those different caloric values.
A total of 1,211 patients, who were followed prospectively for dementia and Alzheimer's, completed follow-up.
During those two decades of follow-up, 242 patients developed either condition.
The researchers found that those who reported moderate to heavy exercise had a decreased risk of developing the condition after adjusting for age and sex (HR 0.55, 95% CI 0.37 to 0.81, P=0.003).
Also those in the lowest quintile of physical activity had a significantly increased risk of dementia compared with those in the higher quintiles (HR 1.45, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.98, P=0.021).
Tan said similar numbers were seen when the results were stratified to Alzheimer's alone.
He noted that some Alzheimer's researchers have shifted their interest from treatment to prevention, but cautioned that such assessment "is still going to be an expensive and long-term endeavor."
Still, an important message is "physical activity can be maintained even late in life," he said, "and we have to remain active even in our old age."
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Vitamin E Reduces Alzheimer's Risk
Thursday, July 8, 2010 8:45 AM
By Sylvia Booth Hubbard
High levels of vitamin E in the blood reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in old age, says a new study. Italian and Swedish researchers found that several components of vitamin E helped prevent cognitive deterioration in people 80 years of age and older.
"Vitamin E is a family of eight natural components, but most studies related to Alzheimer's disease investigate only one of these components, tocopherol," Dr. Francesca Mangialasche, who led the study, said in a statement. "We hypothesized that all the vitamin E family members could be important in protecting against AD. If confirmed, this result has implications for both individuals and society, as 70 percent of all dementia cases in the general population occur in people more than 75 years of age, and the study suggests a protective effect of vitamin E against AD in individuals aged 80 plus."
The researchers studied 232 people who were 80 years or older and were free of dementia at the beginning of the study. After six years, they identified 57 cases of Alzheimer's disease.
At the beginning of the study, the blood levels of all eight natural components of vitamin E were measured. People with higher blood levels were compared with those subjects who had lower blood levels. The scientists found that seniors with the higher blood levels of all the forms of vitamin E reduced their risk of developing Alzheimer's by 45 to 54 percent, depending on the levels of specific components.
Mangialasche noted that the protective effect of vitamin E appears to be related to the combination of the different forms. Along this line, another recent study suggested that supplements containing high doses of the tocopherol component of vitamin E may increase mortality, indicating that such dietary supplements, if not balanced in the body, may be more harmful than previously thought.
"Elderly people as a group are large consumers of vitamin E supplements, which usually contain only tocopherol, and this is often at high doses," says Mangialasche. "Our findings need to be confirmed by other studies, but they open up the possibility that the balanced presence of different vitamin E forms can have an important neuroprotective effect."
According to the Alzheimer's Association, 5.3 million Americans have the disease, and it is the seventh leading cause of death. |
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Vitamin E Cuts Alzheimer's Risk |
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Friday, 09 July 2010 06:22 |
Vitamin E Cuts Alzheimer's Risk
ANI, Jul 8, 2010, 11.46am IST
A Swedish study has revealed that high levels of several vitamin E components in the blood are associated with a decreased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD) in advanced age.
The research has suggested that vitamin E may help prevent cognitive deterioration in elderly people.
"Vitamin E is a family of eight natural components, but most studies related to Alzheimer s disease investigate only one of these components, tocopherol,” said Dr. Francesca Mangialasche, who led the study.
"We hypothesized that all the vitamin E family members could be important in protecting against AD. If confirmed, this result has implications for both individuals and society, as 70 percent of all dementia cases in the general population occur in people over 75 years of age, and the study suggests a protective effect of vitamin E against AD in individuals aged 80 plus," Mangialasche added.
The study was conducted at the Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, in collaboration with the Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics, University of Perugia, Italy.
The study included a sample of 232 participants from the Kungsholmen Project, a population-based longitudinal study on aging and dementia in Stockholm (Kungsholmen parish). All participants were aged 80 plus years and were dementia-free at the beginning of the study (baseline). After 6-years of follow-up, 57 AD cases were identified.
The blood levels of all eight natural vitamin E components were measured at the beginning of the study. Subjects with higher blood levels (highest tertile) were compared with subjects who had lower blood levels (lowest tertile) to verify whether these two groups developed dementia at different rates.
The study found that subjects with higher blood levels of all the vitamin E family forms had a reduced risk of developing AD, compared to subjects with lower levels.
After adjusting for various confounders, the risk was reduced by 45-54 percent, depending on the vitamin E component.
The study has been published in the July 2010 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer s Disease.
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Vitamin E Reduces Alzheimer's Risk
Thursday, July 8, 2010 8:45 AM
By Sylvia Booth Hubbard
High levels of vitamin E in the blood reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in old age, says a new study. Italian and Swedish researchers found that several components of vitamin E helped prevent cognitive deterioration in people 80 years of age and older.
"Vitamin E is a family of eight natural components, but most studies related to Alzheimer's disease investigate only one of these components, tocopherol," Dr. Francesca Mangialasche, who led the study, said in a statement. "We hypothesized that all the vitamin E family members could be important in protecting against AD. If confirmed, this result has implications for both individuals and society, as 70 percent of all dementia cases in the general population occur in people more than 75 years of age, and the study suggests a protective effect of vitamin E against AD in individuals aged 80 plus."
The researchers studied 232 people who were 80 years or older and were free of dementia at the beginning of the study. After six years, they identified 57 cases of Alzheimer's disease.
At the beginning of the study, the blood levels of all eight natural components of vitamin E were measured. People with higher blood levels were compared with those subjects who had lower blood levels. The scientists found that seniors with the higher blood levels of all the forms of vitamin E reduced their risk of developing Alzheimer's by 45 to 54 percent, depending on the levels of specific components.
Mangialasche noted that the protective effect of vitamin E appears to be related to the combination of the different forms. Along this line, another recent study suggested that supplements containing high doses of the tocopherol component of vitamin E may increase mortality, indicating that such dietary supplements, if not balanced in the body, may be more harmful than previously thought.
"Elderly people as a group are large consumers of vitamin E supplements, which usually contain only tocopherol, and this is often at high doses," says Mangialasche. "Our findings need to be confirmed by other studies, but they open up the possibility that the balanced presence of different vitamin E forms can have an important neuroprotective effect."
According to the Alzheimer's Association, 5.3 million Americans have the disease, and it is the seventh leading cause of death. |
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