2024-01-24 08:15:25
Dear friend, dear friend,
Vitamin E is an essential nutrient.
Numerous studies have been carried out on this vitamin, discovered in 1922, but for which scientific enthusiasm did not arise until the 1980s(1).
Although studies on vitamin E are still sometimes contradictory, most experts agree on one point: it is a powerful antioxidant and it is also an anti-inflammatory substance (1,2).
These two characteristics have more specific effects on your health. Here are a few.
In some cases, it is worth trying supplementation.
If your doctor has not specifically recommended that you take vitamin supplements, the easiest way is to consume them regularly through your diet.
Indeed, your body cannot produce vitamin E itself although it absolutely needs it to function.
External supplies of vitamin E are therefore necessary(3).
Scientific literature suggests that vitamin E is useful for the heart and cardiovascular system.
Many studies have been carried out in this area(1,2,3).
For example, work in 1998 involving more than 27,000 Finnish men aged 50 to 69, all smokers, showed that vitamin E limited the risk of heart attack(1).
These men had never had cardiovascular problems but their lifestyle was at risk. They were divided into two groups.
The control group received a placebo while the other group received 50 mg of vitamin E per day as a dietary supplement as well as 20 mg of beta carotene per day(1).
This treatment lasted 6 years on average. At the end of this long period, those who had consumed vitamin E had a 4% lower risk of having a heart attack.
Thus, the benefit exists but remains low compared to the infarction.
Other studies have shown that vitamin E mainly has an action on the arteries (2,3).
It is a vasodilator: it acts against atherosclerotic plaques that occur with aging.
These plaques are clumps of various substances such as calcium, cholesterol or dead cells (4).
They harden the arteries and increase the risk of blockage.
The antioxidant power of vitamin E is also beneficial to your cardiovascular health(3,5).
Vitamin E rejuvenates your skin
The antioxidant power of vitamin E is very appreciated by your skin.
Sebum contains it which helps protect your skin cells and keep them active(6).
And this is important, it prevents your skin from becoming moldy due to the action of bacteria(6)!
Sebum, like vitamin E present in the body, tends to decrease with age(6).
UV rays from the sun, or even from certain halogen lamps and other spotlights, can have a negative effect on the vitamin E in the skin, which thus loses vitality(6).
Vitamin E does not have a specific action on the skin, which is easy to identify. It simply prevents your skin from aging prematurely and could prevent it from certain stains(6).
It’s not nothing.
Vitamin E strengthens your bones
When we talk about bones, we often mention calcium, magnesium, phosphorus or even vitamin D.
But we must not forget that vitamin E is also decisive for your bone health(7).
Scientists are perhaps a little less affirmative about vitamin E, the exact role of which in bone health deserves to be clarified and confirmed.
However, some studies suggest that vitamin E can preserve bone mass, which would limit the risk of fracture(7).
Vitamin E would also be recommended to facilitate bone repair after trauma or in children and adolescents during bone growth.
Here again, as with the skin, it is possible that it is the antioxidant power of vitamin E which promotes the work of bone cells (osteoblasts) and allows you to have better bone health(7).
A little vitamin E to protect your eyes?
As with the skin or bones, the antioxidant activity of vitamin E is beneficial for the eyes.
Its action adds to that of other nutrients, such as lutein or zeaxanthin, to prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD)(8).
All of these nutrients would reduce the risk of AMD by 25% as well as the risk of cataracts(8).
Vitamin E is absorbed by your digestive system
Your body is loaded with vitamin B thanks to your intestine which absorbs nutrients from the food bolus(3).
If your gut is dysfunctional, you may find yourself deficient in vitamin E, which can weaken your muscles, vision, nervous system, and immunity(3).
This deficiency is, however, quite rare.
Furthermore, vitamin E contributes to the proper functioning of your digestive system and more specifically your microbiota(9).
Indeed, several studies have demonstrated that vitamin E supplementation could increase the number of beneficial bacteria within the microbiota, which would be excellent for the entire metabolism(9).
What foods are rich in vitamin E?
The good news about vitamin E is that you can find it in a lot of everyday foods(10).
Hazelnuts, almonds and walnuts – with around 15 mg per 100 g – are an easy and safe source(10).
But you will also find it in sunflower seeds or oil, eggs, dried apricots, spinach, wheat seeds, broccoli, mangoes and kiwis (10).
If you wish to take food supplements, know that there are several types(10).
Vitamin E is subdivided into two large groups composed of 8 molecules(11):
tocopherols (4 molecules); tocotrienols (4 molecules). Each of these vitamin E has particular benefits.
But tocopherols can prevent the action of tocotrienols.
So, if you decide to supplement with vitamin E, it is better that you take tocotrienols than tocopherols(11).
Tocotrienols would, moreover, have a much greater antioxidant power than tocopherols(11).
The therapists around me tend to prefer tocotrienols but don’t hesitate to ask your pharmacist what he thinks.
Naturally yours,
Augustine of Livois
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