Synthetic vitamin-e VS natural vitamin-e? What's the difference? Which is better? HeLP! 10 points?

Question

Why in the heck are they selling two different kinds of vitamins to confuse people?? What's that supposed to mean? Why would you even take synthetic stuff?? But my question is what's the reason behind selling synthetic vitamin e?? Is it as powerful/ less powerful/ not healthy for you?? I dunno but i took the synthetic kind 2 softgels for 2 months and now i'm soooo pissed cause i feel like i just put junk in my body and it was a waste. I know the difference now (DL-ALPHA) is the fake kind. And you know what the worse part about that is i bought the kind from nature made brand so i thought it would be natural since it's "nature made". Anyways anybody has any knowledge about this stuff?? Make me feel better :-(

Umm and how much IU are you supposed to take anyway and for how long??? I would feel so much better if you guys helped me out. :-) THANKS!!

Answer 1

The synthetic Vitamin E is very cheap to manufacture and is found in many grocery stores and Walmart.  It is used only because it is cheap and grocery stores want to keep their vitamins cheap for consumers.  The Natural Vitamin E is very absorbable as it is fat soluble.  You'll only need 400IU to 800IU a day.

Answer 2

Yes, the synthetic stuff is cheap, and also toxic,  That's why they had to stop the Framingham Heart Study, so many people were dying and they discovered that it was from synthetic vitamin e.  The best vitamin E is from food sources because it is with all the 400,000 other natural nutrients that help it to be absorbed and utilized properly, also if it's in food you can't get too much and get vitamin e poisoning (you can with "natural" vitamin E, which is not all that natural, it's still made in a laboratory, not by NATURE)

You can take JuicePlus, that's what I take, it's only fruits and veggies and they've tested it all over the world and know that it gets absorbed and works better than isolated vitamins.

Answer 3

Natural vitamin E is d alpha tocopherol and that is the better one by far.

Synthetic vitamin E is dl alpha tocopherol and this is a mixture consisting of roughly 90% l alpha tocopherol and 10% d alpha tocopherol but only the d alpha tocopherol (10%) is the really useful isomer.

Unfortunately natural vitamin E is more expensive than synthetic vitamin E.

Suitable doses of natural vitamin E are 400 to 800 IU per day but smaller doses are also suitable.  Multivitamins usually only contain 50 IU of natural vitamin E (d alpha tocopherol) but some contain synthetic vitamin E (dl alpha tocopherol).