I am always learning. An early study disputed that vitamin E worked for hot flashes so I stopped advising it. However, these Mayo Clinic researchers have determined that it is useful, so it would seem wise to use.

If a woman still has ovaries, rebalancing one's adrenal glands with the aid of saliva hormone testing is a helpful way to normalize cortisol levels. Cortisol is the major biological control for estrogen and progesterone. It is my experience though, that emotional trauma, both past and current, are frequent reasons why the adrenals are impaired.

Of course, these food choices are also frequently helpful.

Vitamin E is probably one vitamin that nearly everyone would benefit from taking. The only situation I know where it will make a chronic disease worse is in certain brain damaged children, like some types of autism, when accumulations of long chain fats requires oxidation to remove them which will be impaired by vitamin E.

This is an uncommon problem so, for the most part, all of us would benefit from taking vitamin E. I have found that a company called A.C. Grace that makes Unique Vitamin E probably has one of the best brands of vitamin E on the market. Nearly all vitamin E is manufactured are sold to vitamin companies by Eastman Kodak or Henkle.

They sell various grades of vitamin E. Unique is made from the highest grade and is not synthetic. It also uses a mixture of the tocopherols, not just d-alpha.