Vitamin E:
A powerful antioxidant

Vitamin E has an established role as an antioxidant and free radical scavenger. In addition to the effects that make Vitamin E nutritionally essential, scientific studies support that it may help to decrease the risk of heart disease and even certain cancers.

Once again when discussing supplements of any kind, we want to take personal responsibility in choosing one that is not synthetic. In choosing a Vitamin E, it only makes sense to choose a natural supplement that provides all of the tocopherols, especially alpha and gamma-tocopherol.

You won’t find this in most over the counter products.

Why are we concerned with E at all? There have been negative articles concerning vitamin E; however, recent reports show that Vitamin E is not only safe but can help reduce the risk of heart disease especially in women. (Click here for a report on some of these studies.)

Even the national Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Institute of Medicine which sets recommended dietary guidelines, have stated it is safe for adults to consume up to 1500 IU of natural (there is the catch word) vitamin E per day. You can go to the website for the Council on Responsible Nutrition and see they also question the negative conclusions reached by some researchers.

So now we have found a natural vitamin E with the alpha and gamma tocopherols, even being enriched. What does vitamin E do for us?

Vitamin E is like a little sailboat that carries the nutrients to the farthest extremities; which means, it could help our heart, make the walls of the arteries more flexible, help circulation, help the lungs, colon, the prostate, and also help our immune function.

Vitamin E is an antioxidant , thus, it could also help free radical cell damage. It has been said, what is happening on the outside of the body is also happening on the inside of the body. Which means in my way of thinking, if your skin is wrinkled, damaged, dry, and unhealthy, so are the organs within the body.

Think about it.

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