different types of vitamin e

[jess69]

I was in the store and there was a liquid in a softgel and a dry powdered vitamin e water soluble one. what's the difference between these 2?

 

[Greek Freak]

they are all vitamin E, just different ways of taking it.

 

[jess69]

are there less side effects with the water soluble dry one?

 

[justice]

Side effects from vitamin E?!
I've never heard of such thing
I remember...there are 2 different kinds of vitamin E, D-alpha and DL-alpha. D-alpha is better because it's from a natural source or something like that.

 

[jess69]

I find the oil one in capsules gives me stomach problems, so I was hoping the dry one wouldn't

 

[justice]

Stomach problems? Do you take these with food? Usually all stomach problems with vitamins may occur if you take those on an empty stomach...I don't know about dry one.

 

[jess69]

always with food

 

[anthrax]

As justice said don't take either the L or DL form

only the D form (spatial configuration) is really bio-available

 

[danielson]

as for potential side effects

the only one i really know of (Read in a newspaper) is that its fialry hard to excrete vitamin E (it being fat soluble and all) so if you take crazy levels of it, it might build up to toxic levels in the liver

anyone else heard anyuthing about this?

 

[grafix-GNC]

those were just 2 ways of taking the vitamin e like someone said, i would go with the softgel. I have NEVER heard of anybody going over on vit. e to where it became toxic, so unless you had a goal to take in as much as possible, youll be alright.