Vitamin E 400 IU.

The gap this formula speaks to.

Public health figures the engine matched to this formula's ingredients. Reported by their source, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

Population figures from public health data. Context for the category, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

Every one of these is a fact the engine could ground.

Each line below was derived from this formula's own record at the time of verification. Nothing here was written by the brand, and nothing can be added that the evidence does not carry.

• Studied in people15 human studies on Vitamin E back this formula, each one cited.
• A mechanism that is settledHow Vitamin E works is settled pharmacology.
• Recent work on the recordThe most recent study on this record was published in 2020.
• Why this formatIt is a softgel, so the active is already dissolved in oil and the shell keeps it away from air and light.
• The exact form, describedThe form on the label is d-alpha-tocopherol (natural). The record says what that form is and what it suits.
• Full label disclosureEvery ingredient on this label carries its own declared amount.
• Where it comes from and how it is madeVitamin E is made by more than one route.
• Positions this formula already qualifies forThis formula already qualifies for positions beyond the one it is sold into, on the evidence it carries.
• A position nobody is holding yetSome of those positions are ones almost nobody is selling to yet.

What the trials show about timing.

Time-to-effect windows the engine read from the trial record. Each is a window a named study measured, cited and dated, never written by the brand.

• Vitamin Eabsorbed slowly, tracked over 72 hoursMeasured within a day

  In a 3-phase crossover using two deuterium-labelled forms of alpha-tocopherol, healthy women absorbed about 55 percent of an oral dose taken with a 40 percent fat meal and about 64 percent with a fat-free meal, with samples tracked over 72 hours. The authors conclude absorption is not limited by absent fat or fasting, and that vitamin E leaves the intestine by a prolonged process.

  Traber et al., 2019 (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)PMID 31495886

  Promising

Windows measured in the cited trials. Context for how the active behaves over time, not a statement about any individual and not a claim about this product.

How each ingredient usually behaves over time.

One ingredient, from its own page.

• Vitamin EWeeks, not days

  Plasma alpha-tocopherol climbs within days of daily intake, and anything you'd notice in skin condition is a slow change across a couple of months.

  Its own page, the plain answer on timing ↗

How each ingredient usually behaves over time, from its own page on IngredientMD. General timing for the ingredient, not a measurement of this product.

The same ingredient, carried differently.

What each form is, and where it fits in a formula. Measured findings carry the study that reported them.

• dl-alpha-tocopherol (synthetic)

  Synthetically manufactured alpha-tocopherol supplied as all-rac, a racemic mixture of all eight possible stereoisomers in equal proportion. Four are 2R isomers matching the natural configuration and four are 2S isomers.

  Fits

  Suits cost-sensitive formulas that need a defined single-homologue vitamin E and are dosed in international units, since the IU convention already accounts for the isomer mixture.

  Trade-off

  Only the four 2R stereoisomers carry the vitamin E activity recognised when international units are defined, so a larger milligram amount is written per IU than for the natural form. It is otherwise chemically the same alpha-tocopherol molecule.

Descriptions of the form itself, read from the cited studies. Not a comparison between products and not a statement about any individual.

Softgel

It is a softgel, so the active is already dissolved in oil and the shell keeps it away from air and light.