Abstract
Vitamin E is a physiologically essential nutrient and its deficiencies in animals are known as rat fecal resorption, rat hemolysis, chicken muscle dystrophy, chicken dystrophy, and chicken encephalomalacia. Each vitamin E deficiency in animals may connect with vitamin E insufficiencies and disorders in humans as follows: fecal resorption vs. infertility, hemolysis vs. vasodilation, muscle dystrophy vs. sarcopenia, and encephalomalacia vs. dementia.
This review pursues the history of vitamin E clinical studies based on the following parts; (1) infertility, (2) vasodilation, (3) brain function, (4) physical activity, (5) liver function, (6) periodontal function, (7) immune response, and (8) non-α-tocopherol function.
