Vitamin E- Your Fountain of Youth?

Photo by: John Liu


Got some cracks in your armor? Maybe you need more Vitamin E.  These powerful antioxidants are great healing warriors.  

From Your skin, to your blood vessels and every cell in between, they will repair those 'cracks' and boost your bodies health.

What are they?

Vitamin E are antioxidants that protect against damage to cells. There are really 8 kinds of Vitamin E (tocopherols and tocotrienols)

What do they do?

Damaged LDL cells accumulate in blood vessels.

Vitamin E prevents blood from clotting unnecessarily, lowering the risk of stroke or heart attack

It helps skin retain moisture and is often added to sunscreens because it protects the skin against UVB damage.

Builds immune function. (Many women are often deficient in vitamin e. Female problems cause a deficiency of vitamin e and may affect your immune system.)

Anti-Aging

Because Vitamin E repairs and protects your cells, it is awesome at helping your skin, although it goes much deeper than that. Some of us age better than others and don't kid yourself your diet and exercise habits are directly related to it.  (Genetics play a role too.)

Go get it:

- Leafy Vegetables
-Nuts
-Seeds- especially Sunflower Seeds
-Fatty Fish- especially Shrimp & Sardines
-Oils
-Oily Plants- Avocados, Olives, 
-Chili Peppers
-Eggs

Toxicity:

None, "Eat all you want, we'll make more."
You can have 1,000mg a day, that's a lot. (Your daily min req is 14mg)

sources:

Vitamin E from Puritan's Pride

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=111 Plus a great chart of the nutrition content of high Vit E foods!

A great dosing post for many diseases- http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/vitamin-e/dosing/hrb-20060476

http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/vitamin-e/dosing/hrb-20060476