National study finds vitamin E supplement may increase prostate cancer risk

Cleveland Clinic ^ | October 11, 2011 | Unknown

[Magic Fingers]

From Wikipedia:

“Tocotrienols are members of the vitamin E family. An essential nutrient for the body, vitamin E is made up of four tocopherols (alpha, beta, gamma, delta) and four tocotrienols (alpha, beta, gamma, delta).”

[rmlew]

Family is not the same as being one and the same. Ethanol and Vinegar are related, but most definitely not the same.

[Magic Fingers]

“Family is not the same as being one and the same. Ethanol and Vinegar are related, but most definitely not the same.”

Inaccurate analogy. Tocopherols and trienols are components of a complex known as Vitamin E. Tocopherols + tocotrienols = Vitamin E.

[neverdem]

Many thanks for the links!

[Magic Fingers]

My pleasure ;-)

[rmlew]

When the government and most supplement companies write "Vitamin E", they are reffering to Alpha-Tocopherol.
If you think I'm kidding, look up how many "mixed tocopherol" products there are.
People need all 8 members of this group. (I take a mixed tocopherol supplement and a separate mixed tocotrienol supplement daily.) But for 50 years, the government and industry focused on Alpha Tocopherol (or worse, synthetic Alpha Tocopherol).

[Magic Fingers]

“When the government and most supplement companies write “Vitamin E”, they are reffering to Alpha-Tocopherol.”

They may be, but it doesn’t change the fact that Vitamin E is composed of tocopherols and tocotrienols. The supplement companies I deal with don’t make that mistake. Like you, I take a mixture of both. To our good health...