Too Much Vitamin E May Do Harm

Next time you're at a dinner party and your host offers you polar bear liver - just say NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

 

Glad its good for you because i drink enough of it!!! LOL

 

Polar bear liver is HIGHLY toxic (Vitamin A). It won't just make you puke, it can kill your #####!!!!

 

Read the article, and it doesn't give any data as to what a "high dose" of vitamin E happens to be. Therefore, the study has an awful lot of holes. How much vitamin E, over how long a period of time.

Vitamin E is fat soluble, unlike most vitamins which happen to be water soluble, so it does accumulate in the system for a longer period of time. So taking huge doses of it is not recommended at the best of times.

Anyone remember the "Oat Bran" craze? Eat oat bran and your cholesterol went down magically. What was not released was that the initial study was only done on ten men who were literally fed nothing but oat bran, and yes, their cholesterol did go down.

The study, while selling a lot of oat bran, was essentially useless.

 

Polar bears aren't immune to the dangers of consuming too much or too little vitamin A; they're affected just as severely by excess or deficiency. The only difference is that polar bears have a much higher tolerance for vitamin A. For instance, a healthy human liver contains 575 international units (IU) of vitamin A per gram while a polar bear's liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram [source: Eliasen]. Compare that to the tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human: 10,000 IU [source: Higdon].


The polar bear liver example is just an aside. The one a day men's supplement I take delivers 3500 IU/tablet which is 70% of RDA. I guess this translates to a need, for a man, depending on size, enzyme efficiency, etc., of roughly 7000 IU/day. An interesting note from the above source is the comparison of human liver (575 IU VitA/g) vs. polar bear liver (24-35,000 IU VitA/g).

 

The way I see it? All things in moderation...