Interesting information about liponic acid is published by Lester Packer, PhD, a world-famous antioxidant research scientist from Berkeley University of California. Alpha-liponic acid ALA, Gaining more and more popularity as a diet supplement, proved to be a very strong antioxidant with quite surprising properties. Packer divided 12-week-old mice into three groups. The first group received normal food, the second – poor in vitamin E, whereas the third – poor in vitamin E, but rich in alpha-liponic acid. The animals from the first and third groups developed in a typical way, they were strong and did not fall ill. Only in the case of the animals from the third group the researcher observed drastic complications of chronic shortage of vitamin E – the mice were clearly smaller, sickly, with symptoms of extreme exhaustion.

As the physiological role of vitamin E consist in the protection of biological membranes against oxidation by free radicals, the author of the study concludes from the result that alpha-liponic acid can supplement, strengthen or even replace vitamin E in the antioxidant barrier.