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Tag: Vitamin E

  • Vitamin E – Caution: Bleeding Risk

    Summary A recent summary of all published good quality trials (randomized, placebo-controlled) shows that taking vitamin E supplements slightly increases a person’s risk for bleeding into the brain (reference 1). My conclusions:  (a) I caution against the use of daily vitamin E supplementation, and (b) I advise against the use of vitamin E in patients who are already…