I think one of the reasons that these periods of fasting are almost all great religions

and they usually last for a month or six weeks.

I think it was this breaking system that everybody recognized from antiquity that we should

throw on the brakes for a period of time.

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Hey, before we jump into today's show, I had a lot of questions about that whole vitamin E podcast that I did.

A lot of you are running for you should throw out your multivitamin if it doesn't have what are called Tokotryinols in it, and instead has to cough orals.

If you missed that podcast episode, it's over at BenGreenfieldFitness.com slash tan.

That's Ben GreenfieldFitness.com slash TAN, because I interviewed Dr. Barry Tan.

He made a lot of really good points, and I'm certainly a fan of the Tokotryinol form of vitamin E that he talked about.

But I also, because I got inundated with so many questions for my listeners, kind of dug into this quite a bit more.

And there's definitely evidence that Tokotryinols can have a lot of the benefits that we talked about in that episode,

but you don't necessarily need to rush out and throw out your multivitamin if it has to cough orals in it, because what it turns out is the case is that the literature around Tokotryinols is a little bit clouded because there is what's called a synthetic, or also what's known as a, in chemistry, a racemic configuration of Tokotryinols.

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