Vitamin E

Vitamin E

   Vitamin E is a group of fat-soluble vitamins, and the body can store it for use when needed, as vitamin E is found in many food sources, sometimes in processed foods, and can also be obtained from nutritional supplements, on the one hand On the other hand, this vitamin contains eight different compounds, including alpha-tocopherol (which is the most used in the human body). 

 Sources of vitamin E. 

Vitamin E is found in a large number of food sources, and the following are the most important sources of this vitamin:

• Wheat Germ Oil . 
• Almond, and its oil . 
• Sunflower seeds and oils. 
• Nut oil. 
• Pine nuts. 
• Goose meat. 
• Sudanese pistachios. 
• Atlantic salmon. 
• Avocado . 
• Red sweet pepper. 
• Brazilian nuts. 
• The manga . 
• Kiwi. 
• Lobsters  
• Dried cod 
• Pickled olives. 

Benefits of vitamin E

   There are many health and aesthetic benefits that vitamin E provides to the body, and the most important of these are the following: 

• Protecting cells from damage: Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant. Therefore, according to the American National Health Institute, this vitamin can help reduce cell damage caused by free radicals, slow cell aging, and may also contribute to repairing damaged cells. It is worth noting Free radicals can be associated with cancer and heart disease, and the risk of developing these diseases may increase due to human exposure to many factors, such as smoking , exposure to polluted air, and ultraviolet rays of the sun. 
• Promote scalp health: By reducing oxidative stress and maintaining the sebaceous layer, which contributes to providing a good environment for hair growth, and reducing hair fall, where vitamin E is a vitamins beneficial for healthy skin, and in addition, it may increase blood flow in the scalp The head, which improves the health of the hair. 
• Increased hair shine: Damage to hair makes it dull, and the loss of the fatty layer on the surface of the hair causes it to lose its shine and the difficulty of styling it, while the oils rich in Vitamin E help restore this fat layer, restore its shine, maintain its moisture, protect it from weariness And abstinence . 
• The probability of its effect on a number of diseases and conditions: They are as follows: 

-Alzheimer's disease: where vitamin E can help slow the decline of memory in people with Alzheimer's disease in its middle stages, and it can also delay the need for patients in the early, middle and later stages of help, and on the other hand, it does not prevent the development of the disease to Its advanced stages. 

-Liver disease: Daily intake of vitamin E may improve symptoms of a severe stage of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, known as Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. 

-Anemia: Some research has shown that vitamin E increases the response to Erythropoietin, which affects the production of red blood cells in children and adults who wash the kidneys. 

-Blood disorders: Oral vitamin E consumption has been observed to benefit children with deficiency of this vitamin and beta thalassemia (English: Beta thalassemia). 

-Chemotherapy-related nerve damage: Vitamin E can reduce the risk of nerve damage by taking it before and after treatment with Cisplatin. 

-Infertility in men: The consumption of vitamin E by men who have fertility problems improves the rate of fertilization, except that taking this vitamin in a high dose with vitamin C did not show the same effect. 

-Dementia: Studies have shown that men who take vitamin E and vitamin C have a lower risk of developing several types of dementia, but it did not reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's. 

-Dysmenorrhea: taking vitamin E can reduce the intensity of the menstrual pain and its duration, when it is taken two days before the course, and for three days after its start, in addition to reducing blood loss during it. 

-Glomerosclerosis: There is some evidence that vitamin E intake can improve kidney function in children with glomerular sclerosis (English: Glomerulosclerosis). 

-Parkinson's disease: Some early evidence suggests that vitamin E can reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease. 

-Sunburn: Vitamin E intake in high doses with Vitamin C protects the skin after exposure to ultraviolet rays from infections. 

Vitamin E deficiency 

   Vitamin E deficiency is uncommon, and it occurs as a result of some of the underlying causes, and some premature infants may have low levels of this vitamin. Vitamin E deficiency can be diagnosed through a blood test to check the total level of it Where people who have less than 4 mg of this vitamin have a need to consume vitamin E supplements, and the person may develop this as a result of genetic factors, or because of infection with some diseases that reduce the body's absorption of fat, such as wheat allergy , or pancreatitis Chronic (in Chronic pancreatitis), or cholestasis (English: Cholestatic liver disease), or cystic fibrosis (English: Cystic Fibrosis). On the other hand, there are several symptoms that result from vitamin E deficiency, and these symptoms include the following: 

• Muscle Weakness: Vitamin E is considered an antioxidant. Therefore, its deficiency causes oxidative stress, which weakens the muscles. 
• Difficulty walking and asymmetry of movement: Vitamin E deficiency causes damage to the so-called neuron (Purkinje neurons), thus damaging the ability of this neuron to transmit nerve signals. 
• Numbness and tingling: damage to the nerve fibers prevents the nerves from sending the nervous signals properly, which leads to peripheral neuropathy (English: Peripheral neuropathy). 
• Vision deterioration: A lack of vitamin E leads to loss of vision over time, because it weakens light receptors in the retina and other cells in the eye. 
• Immune system problems: Some studies have indicated that a deficiency of vitamin E inhibits immune cells, and it is noteworthy that the elderly may be the ones most at risk.