If you’re fifty years or over, you may want to avoid taking Vitamin E. The results of a recent study suggest that there is a link between Vitamin E and an increased risk of prostate cancer. The multi-million dollar study was conducted between 2001and 2008, and was undertaken to determine the role of the supplement as well as Selenium, in preventing or causing disease.
Tests done on skin and lung cancers, suggested that Selenium and Vitamin E might reduce the risk of prostate cancer. Scientists tested 35,000 men over 50, from across the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada. The study did not achieve the 25% cancer risk reduction scientists were hoping for. In fact it found that the participants who took the Vitamin E supplement showed a higher tendency toward developing prostate cancer. The results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and suggest that there was no benefit to the men who took the supplement.
An eighteen month long follow up of participants showed that the supplement continued having an effect on the men well after they’d stopped taking it.
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