Modern Medicine suffers from widespread confounding errors. It finds co-occurring phenomena, and then assumes causality. Cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. Pneumonia and microbiota. Chronic diseases and DNA/RNA fragments (aka viruses). Gene mutations and cancer.

Tocopherols, different forms of Vitamin E are used to preserve food, both for storage and undergoing high heat processing of food. That should tell you something about the nature of vitamin E. Protects organic matter against high stress conditions.

Top Tip: If you are ever concerned about a treatment option, one of my favorite statistics is... NNT = Number-needed-to-treat The NNT tells us how many people need to receive this treatment, for just ONE person to achieve the desired outcome. For example: The NNT high blood pressure to prevent 1 death = 125 people for 5 years! Meaning: you need to treat 125 people with prescription drugs for 5 years to prevent 1 death. But there's more. The often ignored cousin of NNT NNH = Number-needed-to-harm Similarly, NNH tells us how many people need to be given a treatment option to harm 1 person. To continue with high blood pressure, the NNH is 10. 1 in 10 experienced some side effect resulting in stopping the medication. Now, I am not saying no one should ever take antihypertensives. No. But, these drugs do not provide the same benefit for everyone that takes it. So, you must be cognizant of what you are trying to achieve...and harms you are trying to avoid. Thennt.com

Melatonin is Ubiquitous It benefits sleep, inflammation, immunity & obesity. Originally found in cows - later in plants, nuts, and even coffee. Rats fed walnuts demonstrate increased blood serum melatonin AND increased anti-oxidative capacity. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0899900705001632?via%3Dihub