Ask Dr. Andro: Are Vitamin Supplements Bad For Me (1/2)? The "wrong" Vitamin E Supplements Increase Cancer Risk.
Figure 1: This is where you, my American friends (and most Europeans), should and would get your "E's" from - it's called "food" ( Eitenmiller. 2004 ) With the recent publication of two studies on increased all-cause mortality in older women ( Bjelacovic. 2011 ; Mursu. 2011 ) who took multivitamins (+2.4%), vitamin B6 (+4.1%), folic acid (+5.9%), iron (+3.4%), magnsium (+3.6%), zinc (+3.0%), and the "killer" copper (+18%) and increased risk of prostate cancer due to selenium and/or vitamin E supplements ( Klein. 2011 ) on a regular basis and the huge media attention these studies, " Certain Dietary Supplements Associated With Increased Risk of Death in Older Women, Study Suggests " " Vitamin E Supplement May Increase Prostate Cancer Risk, National U.S. Study Finds " have received, I got interested in taking a closer look at what I would usually have discarded as epidemiological guesswork and scare tactics , anyway. ...
