Do you want to improve your health? How about the appearance of your skin or preventing diseases? If you would like to do any or all of these things, you need to know about the benefits of vitamin E. Vitamin E is a powerful nutrient that your body needs and if taken in the right amounts can help you live a healthful and vibrant life.

Vitamin E is an essential nutrient. Your body needs it but it doesn’t produce it. Although vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin and can be stored in your body’s fat stores, it has a very low toxicity. Overdoses rarely occur so unless you take supplements of over 3000 IU per day, you don’t have to worry about your vitamin E becoming toxic. If you do happen to take too much, you will know by these symptoms which include diarrhea, intestinal cramps, double vision, fatigue, and muscle weakness.

Benefits of Vitamin E

There are many benefits to eating a diet rich in vitamin E and taking supplements if you don’t think you get enough in your diet. Here are some of the benefits.

Beautiful skin – Vitamin E helps you have the skin you’ve always wanted. You can either take it orally or put it directly on your skin. Vitamin E aids in the elasticity of your skin and also helps remove stretch marks and skin discoloration. Vitamin E prevents damage of the cell membranes and helps build healthy skin cells.

Wound healing – Scars are formed from too much generation of collagen. Vitamin E helps decrease collagen generation and reduces inflammation of scars which takes away the red coloration of the tissue. Vitamin E is absorbed easily by your skin and benefits greatly from topical application.

Immune function – You have B-cells in your body that produce antibodies which, in turn, destroy bacteria. Studies shows that vitamin E helps to stimulate the production of these natural killer cells and they seek out and destroy germs and cancer cells.

Antioxidant – Vitamin E is a great antioxidant. It removes free radicals that damage your cell structure. When these cell structures are damaged by free radicals, it increases your risk of cancer and it weakens your immune system. This also protects against eye diseases, diabetes and pancreatic disorders, and Alzheimer’s Disease.

Sources

If you are interested in increasing your vitamin E intake, you can do it either through supplements that you buy at any health food store or better yet, through improving your diet. Here are some common foods that are very high in vitamin E:

• green leafy vegetables
• fish
• nuts
• wheat germ
• whole grains
• various vegetable oils
• spinach
• carrots
• turnips
• mustard
• broccoli
• papaya
• almonds
• kiwi
• plant-based oils like olive, soya, corn, sunflower and safflower oil

As you can see, there are many foods that are high in vitamin E and this is just a small list. You can easily add these foods to your diet and increase your intake of vitamin E naturally.

Recommended Amounts

The RDA recommends the following amounts of vitamin E:

Men – 15 IU

Women – 12 IU

Pregnant or nursing women – 15 IU

Begin today to improve your health by adding vitamin E either by supplements or healthy foods to improve your skin, improve your immune system, and prevent many diseases.

Jason Ladock

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