Vitamins and Your Health Explain Mystifying Vitamin E

Posted February 14th, 2006 by admin

If you are concerned about vitamins and your health, you probably take vitamin E. Why?

Vitamins and your health definitely can not forget the essential vitamin E. The explanation of vitamin E and its benefits are often unclear. Sure it is a powerful antioxidant but how does it benefit our health?

Well, vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant which is very important to our health. Vitamin E actually has eight different forms but is most often included in vitamin supplements as Alpha-Tocopherol.

Free radicals are the nemesis of antioxidants. Free radicals are obviously Darth Vader and antioxidants toggle between Yoda and Luke Skywalker. Free radicals are unstable molecules that are looking for electrons or a bond of some kind. How free radicals enter the body varies. Free radicals vary from chemical exposure to cell metabolism byproducts and many more.

The free radical looking for a bond actually attacks your healthy tissue molecules for electrons and bonds. The problem with this process is the free radical that bonded or borrowed electrons from your healthy tissue molecule turned your healthy tissue molecule into another free radical. This continues to spread as a chain reaction and can damage many nearby tissue molecules creating oxidative stress.

Free radicals are responsible for premature aging and many other health conditions. Now, vitamin E and antioxidants play a very important role in our body’s cells and molecules by preventing free radicals from boding to our healthy tissue molecules. Antioxidants stabilize our tissue molecules to prevent the chain reaction effect of free radical damage and oxidative stress.

In the quest to explain vitamins and your health, we need to build weapons to preserve our health. Add Vitamin E to your arsenal.

By Daniel Weigum


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