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Vitamin E prevents inflammation and oxidation. It functions as an antioxidant in many environments. Government and industry have been “hiding, destroying, or ignoring” information about vit E for a long time. Industry controls the journals and funding for research, and in the 1940s vitamin E research was having a negative effect on the synthetic estrogen industry.
In 1933 physician R. J. Shute was studying preeclampsia (a circulatory problem in pregnancy). Vitamin E had been found to improve fertility, whereas estrogen was causing problems (infertility, miscarriage, excessive blood clotting). Shute and his sons considered vitamin E to be antiestrogen and prevented clotting diseases. The Shutes started giving vitamin E to treat circulatory diseases in general – hypertension, heart disease, diabetes – all did well with large doses of vitamin E.
Anything that can be oxidized and reduced (melatonin, estrogen, tryptophan, carotene, etc.) will function as an antioxidant in some system, but in other circumstances, it can be a pro-oxidant
The people who think there is benefit in the abstract "antioxidant" function seem to be thinking in terms of something that will, like a ubiquitous fire department, put out every little fire as soon as it starts. I think it's more appropriate to think of the biological antioxidant systems as programs for controlling the arsonists before they can set the fires.
Since the requirement for vitamin E decreases as the consumption of unsaturated fats decreases, the requirement, if any, would be very small if we didn't eat significant quantities of those fats.