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Vitamin E may help older exercise enthusiasts bounce back quicker from vigorous workouts, researchers from the Harvard School of Medicine and the Human Nutrition Center at Tufts University have found. Vitamin E helps dampen the activity of free radicals, harmful molecules that attack cells and can operate too aggressively in older people, damaging tissues after intense exercise, according to lead researcher Jennifer Sacheck, an exercise physiologist whose research was reported in the March 2002 Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. After ingesting vitamin E, participants in the study experienced lower levels of inflammation and less soreness. Sacheck says that those who are above average in fitness will gain the most benefit--mall walkers don't need extra E.