This Vitamin Mistake is Super Unhealthy!
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In nature, vitamin E exists in a complex. If you’re taking a vitamin E supplement that contains a-tocopherol, this can act as a pro-oxidant rather than an antioxidant, as it is only a fragment of the vitamin E complex.
There are 2 types of vitamin E: tocopherols and tocotrienols. Tocotrienols are far more powerful and have the following potential benefits:
•Anti-cancer effects
•Potent anti-inflammatory
•Increases lifespan in animal studies
•Neuroprotective
•Similar effects to statins on oxidative LDL
•Supports cardiovascular health
•Beneficial for workout recovery
•Beneficial for age-related cognitive decline
•Reverses damage from radiation
•Scar tissue protection
•Slows progression of liver cirrhosis
Tocopherols do support and protect the cell membranes, and there is more research being done on tocopherols. They are also easier to find in many foods, such as green vegetables, seeds, nuts, olives, and olive oil.
Tocotrienols are more difficult to find in food and may be easier to take as a supplement. They’re found naturally in annatto and red palm oil.
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| 0:00.0 | Is it possible you might be overdosing on the wrong vitamin E. |
| 0:05.1 | Vitamin E is very interesting because you'll see reports that, oh yeah, vitamin E causes cancer. |
| 0:10.8 | It causes cardiovascular damage. |
| 0:13.6 | Now, how can that be? |
| 0:14.6 | We will talk about that and I'm going to clear up the confusion so it'll all make sense. |
| 0:18.0 | In 1964, it was discovered that there is another vitamin E compound. |
| 0:25.1 | Vitamin E is not just one thing. It's many things in two different groups. We're just going to |
| 0:31.7 | compare tocotrinals to tachofrols as far as antioxidants, as far as the potency. Tocotrinos, |
| 0:37.3 | hands down, are so much more powerful. |
| 0:39.9 | Let's say, for example, you just take one isolated part of the vitamin E complex, |
| 0:44.5 | alpha tecoferal, and you're taking it synthetically or even naturally. |
| 0:47.7 | It's going to be more of a pro-oxidant and create more damage. |
| 0:51.0 | This is why you see mixed reviews on vitamin E, like, well, one study it'll show that it creates |
| 0:56.7 | some damage. Another study it shows that it can actually help someone in some way, but you're not |
| 1:02.0 | looking at the whole picture because of nature, any accidents never come like that. Let's talk a little bit |
| 1:06.9 | more about these tocotrinals because this might be new to you. I really like the |
| 1:11.1 | tocotrinals, which just happens to have an anti-cancer effect. It also is a very potent anti-inflammatory |
| 1:16.7 | as well. In animal studies, they found that the tocotrinel can even increase lifespan by 19%. Some people |
| 1:23.8 | might correlate that over to humans, probably just because of the antioxidant effect. It's very powerful protecting something against oxidation. |
| 1:31.3 | That leads us to the next thing that tocotrinos are really good at. |
| 1:35.3 | Neuroprotection. |
| 1:36.3 | Let's say, for example, someone had a stroke and they need some quick repair. |
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