You need less vitamin E if you consume less linoleic acid. The Lyon Diet Heart Study (cancer write up) discusses this. See it here. People who eat more PUFA generally have lower serum vit E, despite consuming more dietary vit E. That's because PUFAs are the main substrate for vit E.

In the Lyon study, patients in the experimental group consumed more vitamin C, more fiber,7, 21 and probably more trace elements and flavonoids than control patients did. The experimental group, however, consumed less polyunsaturated fats and less vitamin E, the major lipid-soluble antioxidant vitamin.7, 21 The paradoxical consequence of that in terms of plasma levels was that plasma levels of both vitamins C and E were higher in experimental patients,7 suggesting that adoption of Mediterranean dietary habits also results in better antioxidant defenses and lower catabolism of vitamin E. This is not surprising, because the nature of the substrate for lipid peroxidation, mainly the polyunsaturated fatty acids, and not only the antioxidants, is a dominant influence in determining the rate of lipid peroxidation.26 The importance of the fatty acid composition of lipids, in both plasma and cell membranes, in determining their susceptibility to oxidation was impressively demonstrated by recent studies comparing lipids enriched in either linoleic acid or oleic acid in animal models as well as in humans27-28: lipids enriched in oleic acid were remarkably resistant to oxidation. Mediterranean patients thus had fatty acid profiles in their diet and plasma extremely favorable for protecting circulating and tissue lipids against oxidation, as oleic acid level was increased, whereas linoleic acid level was decreased.7, Future trials with the purpose of reinforcing antioxidant defenses to protect against cancer should take this important point into consideration

I take low doses of supplemental vitamin E. You can find a low dose if you buy drops. They are usually about 12-20 IU per drop. I take a few drops per day with meals.

I'll try to get him to post about it, but Chris Masterjohn told me the RDAs for E were drawn up based on an experiment based on what was needed for prisoners getting all their fat from boiled corn oil!!!! So for those of us not consuming rancid pufas, less is needed.

It would be better to get the nutrients you are deficient in from whole foods. Beef liver has a good amount of copper. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/search?q=liver

A complete B complex is much better than just trying to focus on one of the B complexes. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_vitamins Liver, turkey, tuna are good sources of B complex

For Vit E http://www.weightlossforall.com/foods-rich-vitamin-E.htm You are right, those industrial oils do provide the E along with the O-6 in copious amounts.

Almonds, curry, cucurmin, eggs, cod liver oil all provide enough E.

Dr Cannell who started the Vit D Council is not a fan of multi vitamins because they usually contain Vit A which is antagonistic to Vit D. Dr. Davis has reprinted Dr. Cannell's newsletter here. http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/search?q=multi+vitamins

If one eats real food favoring the meats and fats of animals with some judicious use of some herbs, I fail to see why supplementation is necessary...unless one is hypothroid and needs thyroid hormone or iodine. Or if a person cannot/will not get full sun for 1/2 hour a day for their Vit D3....then supplement with D3.

I'd definitely go without the seeds. You have to consider that those recommendations are for people eating a standard american diet and thus nutrient use and absorption is very different when you don't eat grains, dairy and just generally high carb.

I'm able to really feel the difference sometimes when I eat a little more fruit. I'm having candida problems and I'm low on some nutrients like iron and I noticed eating more iron rich food helps a bit, bit lowering fruits helps a whole lot.

Like others said, go for the occasional liver, it is a nutritional powerhouse. Don't go overboard with the liver. Think about our ancestors, there is just one liver per animal and they would certainly not waste the rest of the meat and just eat the organs. So, I think eating liver once a week is fine. The problem I could see is not only vitamin D deficiency, but vitamin A toxicity with too much liver. Chronic high levels of Vit A could be damaging to your kidneys. Polar bear and husky liver is so high in Vitamin A that it's lethal for us humans.

Anyways, my gut instinct always tells me that good quality and variety food that was available to our ancestors ought to be more than enough for our needs since it did the job for so long. Today, we can plug-in the data on websites and try to get a perfect intake of everything, but our ancestors certainly didn't suffer too much if they weren't living where coconuts or avocados or nuts where available in good quantity. He would adapt and be perfectly fine with what was available.

I think if they are very good quality where you can maybe find out how fresh they are and when they were harvested, it could be fine. I had some PMS problems and I used wheat germ oil despite the protests against the PUFAs, it was the only thing that helped me and I wish I had tried it earlier but my fear of pufas, delayed my experimentation and palm oil with it's vitamin E did nothing. I ran and out and still had residual fear about the PUFAs and thought, maybe I didn't need to take it anymore, and the symptoms came back!! Now I am so mad at myself.

I say this all the time, you can't judge a food good or bad based on one thing. It's like people with blood sugar problems being helped by beets.... what about the high sugar content of beets? But the problem is looking at beets only in terms of one thing, sugar. That's a mistake and there are properties of food that science isn't even aware of yet. Variety is very important but freshness and purity is the most important. That whole pufa thing is still being ironed out with some saying Omega six should be higher than omega 3s and that the problems come solely because of the freshness issue.

Can you do muscle testing, or ground some up in water and put a drop on your wrist, like the GAPS diet suggests? THere's also taking your pulse after you eat them and some people use dousing, but that's probably the least reliable.