Vitamin EVitamin E (tocopherol) is a fat-soluble vitamin group covering eight forms, and it is viewed as a critical antioxidant. Vitamin E is essential for proper skin creation, among other things, and is often included in skin creams and lotions because it may help heal skin, and it is often touted as having an antiaging effect.
Most of our vitamin E comes from foods: vegetable oils like soybean or olive oil, for instance, or nuts, seeds, berries, and wheat germ. Fish and peanut butter are reasonably good sources as well. Most children get a lot of their vitamin E from breakfast cereals, which are often fortified.
Vitamin E, like other antioxidant vitamins, protects cells from free radical damage, which can age cells and especially cells in your skin, or even cause cardiovascular disease and cancer. A deficiency in vitamin E, while rare in any but very low birth weight babies, people with metabolic disorders, or those who can’t absorb dietary fat. Though it’s well-known that people take vitamin E supplements to stave off cancer and heart disease; what isn’t well known is that cataracts may indicate a low vitamin E level. Too much can also be a problem; if a patient takes vitamin E for four months or more in high dosages, they should know that vitamin E may cause
Supplements with vitamin E in them may vary widely in their effectiveness; this is due to the multiple versions of vitamin E in the human body. Since they are all classified as vitamin E, any one or all of them may be in a vitamin E supplement, which makes supplements identically labeled different from one another.
Web Resources On Vitamin E
Vitamin E: What is it?
Micronutrient Information Center
Book Resources On Vitamin EThe Vitamin E Factor : The Miraculous Antioxidant for the Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease, Cancer, and Aging by Andreas Papas
Vitamin by Ronald Eitenmiller, Junsoo Lee
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