Vitamin E: The missing link to fertility?
COULD VITAMIN E BE THE MISSING LINK TO YOUR FERTILITY, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE TRYING TO CONCEIVE AT AN OLDER AGE? ✨✨✨
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin also known as “tocopherol,” which comes from the Greek word “tokos,” meaning “childbirth.” If that isn’t turning your gears already, I don’t know what will!
In the 1930s, Dr. R.J. Schute and his two sons, Wilfred and Evan, found that Vitamin E caused animals to reproduce at very high rates.
It was also noted that Vitamin E acted in a way that had the opposite effect of excess Estrogen.
Excess Estrogen can cause changes in the womb that impair implantation of the embryo and/or support for its development if it has already implanted. One of the primary ways is that it decreases the amount of oxygen available to the embry.
Unlike excess Estrogen, Vitamin E increases the amount of oxygen delivered to the uterus and embryo, very similar to the way Progesterone behaves.
In animal studies, Vitamin E supplementation prevented the onset of menopause in middle age. In other studies, it’s been shown that Vitamin E corrects any oxygen deficiency being caused by Estrogen supplementation or old age.
Vitamin E has been dubbed a “Progesterone-sparing agent” since its anti-Estrogen effects are so much like Progesterone’s.
One of my favorite Vitamin E supplements is Lifeblud’s Antidote (capsules) and Antidote V2 (dopper). (code INNATE will provide a discount)
Learn more in Episode 3 of The Innate Wisdom Podcast with Dr. Ray Peat where we discuss this and more. And feel free to sign up for the wait list to my eCourse, Conscious Conception 2.0 releasing spring/summer, where you'll learn how to implement things like Vitamin E to support your fertility journey. Links for both are in my bio.
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Not medical advice.
References:
Peat, R. (2006). Vitamin E: Estrogen antagonist, energy promoter, and anti-inflammatory. Retrieved from: http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/vitamin-e.shtml.
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Animal research in the 1930s was also showing that estrogen had many toxic effects, including causing infertility or intrauterine death, connective tissue abnormalities, and excessive blood clotting. Dr. Shute and his sons, Wilfred and Evan, were among those who considered vitamin E to be an antiestrogen. They found that it was very effective in preventing the clotting diseases of pregnancy.
The Shute brothers began using vitamin E to treat circulatory diseases in general, rather than just in pregnant women--blood clots, phlebitis, hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes all responded well to treatment with large doses.
If vitamin E was essential for human health, and achieved at least some of its amazing effects by opposing estrogen, then the synthetic estrogen industry had a problem.
Estrogen causes changes in the uterus that prevent implantation of the embryo, and that impair support for its development if it has already implanted. It decreases the availability of oxygen to the embryo, while vitamin E increases it.
My dissertation adviser, A.L. Soderwall, did a series of experiments in which he showed that providing hamsters with extra vitamin E postponed the onset of infertility in middle age. In my experiments, vitamin E increased the amount of oxygen in the uterus, correcting an oxygen deficiency produced either by supplemental estrogen or by old age. Progesterone has similar effects on the delivery of oxygen to the uterus.
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