Miscarriage Protection
Vitamin E protects against miscarriages.
By Alexander Gelfand
Nearly 100 years after scientists first discovered that rats needed vitamin E to breed, new evidence shows the powerful antioxidant is important to human reproduction, too.
Bloomberg School researchers recently found that women in rural Bangladesh who had low levels of a particular form of vitamin E were almost twice as likely to miscarry. (Two-thirds of the women participants were vitamin E deficient.)
Researcher Kerry Schulze, PhD, says that deficiency could stem from general malnourishment and diets that include cooking oils low in vitamin E.