The one vitamin you MUST take to delay aging:

You need vitamin E.

You need about 400IUs right now.

And you need to keep this up daily.

I don’t mean to sound blunt, but there really is no time to lose.

“The risk of not taking vitamin E is equivalent to the risk of smoking,” said Harvard’s Eric B. Rimm. Worse, if you’re not supplementing this, you’re almost certainly not getting enough. To get the recommended dosage from your food, you’d need a 5000-calorie diet. Mostly of fats.

As Dr. Alan Chait points out: that’d be like drinking 2 quarts of corn oil, eating 28 cups of peanuts or 5 pounds of wheat germ. (Obviously that’s not healthy.)

Multi-vitamins are woefully low in vitamin E, too. The average multi-vitamin contains around 30IUs – over 10X less than you need to make a real difference.

How vitamin E switches off heart disease

‘Bad’ LDL cholesterol naturally builds up in your body.

Once it’s oxidised by free radicals, it’s free to penetrate your artery walls and run riot. Your arteries harden and clog.

Coronary heart disease always follows.

All anti-oxidants fight free radicals. That’s how they prevent aging.

However, vitamin E gets to work in your arteries – proven to switch off heart disease at the source. A study from the University of Texas’ medical centre found it can enter the LDL cholesterol molecule. From there, it destroys the deadly free radicals…long before they attack.

Vitamin E reduced artery damage and heart disease 40%.

“It’s very clear that vitamin E is the most potent anti-oxidant against LDL cholesterol,” said Texas University’s Ishwarlal Jialal.

I was still skeptical…

…Until another 2 studies from Harvard proved Jialal right. In fact, their results were so similar I had to look again.

87,000 nurses took part in the test. Those who took 100-250IUs of vitamin E daily had 41% fewer cases of major heart disease. What’s more, their stroke risk dropped 29%. Overall mortality rates were 13% lower.

Can you afford NOT to take vitamin E?

Maybe it’s not heart disease that worries you.

Maybe it’s cancer, arthritis and those dreaded age-related brain diseases. Well, vitamin E is shown to have a startling impact here, too. Again, 400 daily IUs of vitamin E dramatically boosted immunity in people over 60 – “almost to the level of young people,” said Dr. Simin Meydani, who conducted the study.

Within 30 days, white blood cells skyrocketed 10-50%.

And just look at what happened in Iowa…

Of 35,000 women, those who got the most vitamin E were 68% less likely to develop colon cancer. A Finnish study found it cut the risk of throat and mouth cancer in half.

“The anticancer effect is attributed mostly to vitamin E’s immune-boosting fats,” says Jean Carper in her book Stop Aging Now! “However, there is new evidence that vitamin E directly inhibits growth of cancer cells.”

Dr. Jeffrey Blumberg of Tufts University agrees.

“We have hundreds of thousands of people dying in this country from heart disease and cancer,” he said. “I think the evidence suggesting vitamin E can reduce the suffering and costs of these diseases is very strong and there appears to be no downside.”

He’s right.

It’s a heck-of-a-lot cheaper than not taking any.