Quick Study Analysis: Seed Oils and People with Diabetic Kidney Disease
Vitamin E (aka tocotrienols, T3) added to canola oil improved the health of these very sick people.
Vitamin E (aka tocotrienols, T3) added to canola oil improved the health of these very sick people.
"A total of 50 patients with T2DM and FBS >126 mg/dl treated by non-insulin hypoglycemic drugs were randomly assigned to receive either 15 ml T3-enriched canola oil (200 mg/day T3) or pure canola oil for 8 weeks."
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050683/…
The study fails to mention that the value of T3 is that they protect from the toxic effects of linoleic acid.
“The neuroprotective property of tocotrienols hold good not only in response to glutamate challenge but also in response to other insults such as homocysteic acid, glutathione deficiency and linoleic acid-induced oxidative stress.”
The people protected from "linoleic acid-induced oxidative stress" saw:
"Urine microalbumin and serum hs-CRP were declined significantly in T3-treated group. At the end of the study, patients who treated with T3 had lower urine microalbumin (11 (9, 25) vs. 22 (15, 39.75) nmol/dl, P = 0.003) and hs-CRP changes (−10.91 ± 15.5 vs. −9.88 ± 27.5 Pg/ml, P = 0.048) than control group."
The authors conclude:
"These findings indicate that T3 leads to ameliorate proteinuria and can protect the kidney against inflammation (hs-CRP) and nitrosative stress (NO)."
Clearly it would make sense to REDUCE the thing that T3 is supposed to protect you from, the "linoleic acid-induced oxidative stress".
I was given this study as evidence of the BENEFIT of consuming seed oils. Thanks, @naturalguy !