In Oregon, study results show that people with metabolic syndrome need significantly more vitamin E than healthy people – a potentially serious public health concern; and, that conventional blood tests to detect vitamin E levels may be seriously flawed.
Oregon State University and Ohio State University researchers conducted a double-blind, crossover clinical trial and found that people with metabolic syndrome retained 30-50 percent more vitamin E than healthy people – showing that they needed it. But, the group with metabolic syndrome, even as their tissues were taking up and retaining the needed vitamin E, their blood levels by conventional measurement appeared about the same as those of a normal, healthy person.
Vitamin E is an antioxidant important for cell protection and nutrition surveys have estimated that 92 percent of men and 96 percent of women in the United States fail to get an adequate daily intake of vitamin E in their diet.