Vitamin E And Its Multiple Benefits

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a vitamin and  fat-soluble antioxidant that is found in foods such as almonds, sunflower seeds, vegetable oils, peanut butter and dietary supplements. The majority of adults require 15 milligrams of vitamin E per day, the amount that is found in 2.25 oz of almonds or 3 oz of sunflower seed.


In spite of the deficiencies are rare, these can affect children and people with problems absorbing nutrients. The vitamin E offers numerous health benefits .

Promotes the ocular health
Vitamin E can provide protection for the eyes and vision. Vitamin E can work with other nutrients, including zinc, vitamin C and beta-carotene to provide protection against macular degeneration; the leading cause of blindness in older adults, and an inflammatory condition of the eye known as uveitis.


What has vitamin E
The vitamin E could also help to prevent cataracts in the eye according to some studies. Reduces the risk of developing cancer as an antioxidant, or nutrient that helps to reduce the effects of toxins known as free radicals in the body, vitamin E may reduce the risk of certain forms of cancer.


Benefits premenstrual
If you experience menstrual symptoms or severe menstrual, vitamin E may help reduce the symptoms. The increase in the consumption of vitamin E for 2 to 3 days prior to menstruation can help relieve the pain associated with menstruation, according to researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Vitamin E can also help alleviate the emotional symptoms such as depression, anxiety and cravings for food that occur before menstruation.


Lower risk of respiratory infections
The antioxidant benefits of vitamin E can support the respiratory system, which includes the lungs, diaphragm, and trachea. In accordance with the Linus Pauling Institute, vitamin E may help reduce the effects of the common cold and increase the body's ability to resist the flu virus. The nutrient can also improve the respiratory health of older adults, whose immune systems are weaker than healthy young adults.Vitamin E is also known as tocopherol or vitamin anti sterile.


Vitamin e sources:
* In vegetable, especially in the green leaf ,carrrots and in vegetable oils (virgin olive oil,
cotton) .Also, seeds (especially of cereals, such as wheat).

* In food of animal origin, is scarce, although it is present in some such as the egg yolk and butter.


Physiological Action (function):
* Has antioxidant capacity against to the free radicals. It seems that plays some protective activity for certain molecules lipid (fatty acids) to prevent its oxidation, slowing cellular catabolism.Therefore playing against cellular aging, contributing by extension, the increase in longevity.


* In some animals has proven its contribution in the standardization of processes of fertility.


Deficit (alterations deficiency):
* Acceleration of the catabolism of fatty acids, by increasing the consumption of oxygen at cellular level. These processes are related to cellular aging.