Nutrient Focus: Vitamin E

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Your body needs a variety of vitamins and minerals to optimally function. To keep your body running in top shape, it’s important to keep some key vitamins in your system. One of these crucial vitamins is Vitamin E, which is found in Reliv products like products like Reliv Now, Reliv Classic, Reliv ReShape, FibRestore and Reliv Now for Kids.

Highlights from the Australian governments Food and Nutrition Report in 2012 showed more than 9 in 10 people aged  sixteen and over do not consume sufficient serves of vegetables. What are Australian’s missing out on when we consider a number of leafy greens and vegetables to be rich in Vitamin E. In addition to improved brain health, Vitamin E offers several health benefits your body needs.

What is Vitamin E?
Vitamin E is more than a single vitamin. It’s a group of eight fat-soluble compounds. These compounds can be divided into two groups; tocopherols and tocotrienols, either of which can be alpha, beta, gamma or delta tocopherols. Researchers are beginning to find each of these eight members of Vitamin E has a very important role to play in our bodies in their own, individual ways.

What can Vitamin E do for you?

  • Skin Saver: Researchers have discovered that Vitamin E will protect your skin, significantly reducing skin sensitivity to UV rays from the sun. For best results, combine Vitamin E with Vitamin C (you can get both of these in Reliv products).
  • Pain Reliever: Studies have found that Vitamin E, in addition to prescription medication, may actually reduce the painful effects of rheumatoid arthritis. The combination of Vitamin E and the medication showed better results than medication on its own.
  • Healthy Heart: Vitamin E thins your blood, which keeps blood platelets from building up and clogging the circulatory system. When you include the proper amount in your daily diet, you ward off coronary artery disorder and many other heart diseases.

Lacking Much 

Without a proper supply of Vitamin E, people can develop skeletal and retinal myopathy (persistent or acute damage), impairment of the immune response, red blood cell destruction and more.

Guard Your Sources
Foods like eggs, nuts, sunflower seeds, vegetable oils, dark green leafy vegetables and sweet potatoes are rich in Vitamin E. Make sure you’re getting your RDA of Vitamin E by supplementing with Reliv products.

Sources:

https://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=10737422319

http://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/Health-benefits-vitamin-E/2011/02/01/id/369888

http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Research/Vitamin-E-The-overlooked-nutrient-and-its-brain-health-benefits/?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BDaily&c=HL0OlOmWuYlgP5qr8aQL1g%3D%3D

http://umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/vitamin-e

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=nutrient&dbid=111

This post was adopted from Reliv International and altered accordingly for Australian and New Zealand audiences.

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