Vitamin E is good for your skin

Vitamin E is one of the important vitamins that the body needs to maintain proper operation. Playing a key role in cell structure and the formation of DNA, RNA, and red blood cells. As an antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals that can lead to wrinkles, age spots and wrinkles. It also protects against ultraviolet rays, pollution, drugs, radiation, and smoke can oxidize the cells and alter their cell structure to cause signs of aging and disease. Vitamin E makes the skin look younger and more beautiful.
Vitamin E is a fat soluble vitamin that is stored in the liver, adipose tissue and muscle. Because it is fat soluble it needs fat to be transported to other areas of the body. Without the ability to move freely throughout the body, excess vitamin E in the body could be potentially toxic. Therefore, maintaining adequate levels of vitamin E in the body is essential. Vitamin E has various functions in the body, including skin care and repair. Vitamin E can be absorbed by the food we eat, taken as a vitamin supplement or applied topically in lotions, creams and gels. The best way to get their daily ration of vitamins is the food you eat, but the amount of vitamin E than the body needs is small compared with other vitamins, it is very difficult to get enough vitamin E through our diet. Some foods rich in vitamin E include spinach, almonds, avocado, sunflower seeds, olive oil, olives, papaya, and blueberries. By eating foods rich in vitamin E than the body can protect the skin from within. Vitamin E in the body to eliminate free radicals, protects the liver against toxic chemicals, promotes good circulation and stimulates the immune system.
Otherwise, vitamin E is used locally. Vitamin E is easily absorbed through the skin. Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that reduces fine lines, wrinkles, age spots and stretch marks. When applied directly on the skin of vitamin E promote healing of wounds, prevent scarring, burning and prevents it from UV damage. Although you can use to prevent scarring, but can also be used to soften the appearance of scars. Vitamin E also helps in the treatment of skin diseases and conditions. Psoriasis is a condition that causes redness and irritation. Vitamin E can be used locally to reduce redness and inflammation and reduce irritation, while the softer skin. Vitamin E also reduces the risk of cancer from the sun to protect skin from sun damage. Vitamin E is to be applied to the skin 20-30 minutes before going out into the sunlight. In addition to protection from the sun can be used on top of vitamin E to increase the effectiveness of sunscreen. Vitamin E acts as a barrier to the skin and strengthens the outer layer of skin from environmental exposure. It reduces water loss through the skin and helps to balance the oil in the skin layer.
Next time you're looking for skin care products, look for natural vitamin E increase the amount of organic food, including vitamin E in your diet and see a new, younger looking skin feeling fresh. Use of vitamin E in cuts and skin diseases that cause inflammation and irritation. Keep antioxidant capacity available for all skin care.

Avoid taking more than 400 IU per day, because the body is unable to remove it from the system. Always consult your doctor to determine levels of vitamins in the body and find out what an appropriate dose of vitamins to take.

Brain Vitamins

Without adequate nutrition, your brain can not function at its full potential. It is important that the vitamins and nutrients to nourish your brain for stimulation and allow adequate growth. Our brain controls everything we do. Malnutrition in the brain can cause many problems in the rest of the body. We need our brains to think and process information and perform daily activities.

There are certain vitamins that give us the promise of our brain need to flourish. Several products on the market today are designed to help with brain function. different ingredients that have been shown to contribute to maintaining the brain was divided into allowances that can be taken. Some ingredients you find these supplements can vary, but here are some common ingredients that can be seen.

DLPA and DL-phenylalanine is an amino acid found naturally in our bodies. This nutrient is used up on a regular basis, it is important to restore to keep the brain functioning at its best. This acts as a nutrient natural endorphins that keep us happy, helps to relieve pain in the body and to help memory.

Choline is the same B-vitamins in many ways and contributes to our brain and organs functioning properly. Research has revealed that the mountain is an important ingredient for the growth of fetuses, infants and children to have healthy development of the brain. The hill has been used to prevent memory loss in aging adult, but has not been very useful to regain lost memories. Although this is very valuable nutrients can also have side effects if taken in high doses. You can find natural ground through foods such as eggs, butter, peanuts, cauliflower, almond, soy and white beans, and more.

Here are just some of the ingredients found in some supplements, but there are many other important vitamins that are important for brain development is best taken in a multivitamin or a balanced and nutritious diet.

Some of the most important vitamins and minerals are using antioxidants like vitamins E and C. Antioxidants brain drain characteristics that damage brain cells. The benefits include improved memory, coordination and balance. You can find these antioxidants in addition form or in foods like apples, grapes, raisins, spinach and berries.

B vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6 and B12 also support the overall performance of the brain. All B vitamins are shown to give support in assisting with various brain, but combined with others can increase performance at the highest levels. People who lack vitamin B showed an increased risk for depression, fear, memory loss, irritability, confusion and abnormal brain waves. In addition, a much higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease diagnosed in those with low levels of vitamin B. The cause of these vitamins are very important because they do much to help the brain. A little help for the maintenance of healthy brain cells, helps metabolize carbohydrates which are used as fuels for the brain and certain neurotransmitters that produce message through the brain and improve your mood. By eating a variety of fruits and vegetables and whole grains that are able to make the most of the B vitamins, but if you believe the diet lacking these essential vitamins can be important to add to your diet through complementary shape. Just be careful not to overdose on a vitamin, because side effects may occur.

It is very important to give your mind the best food possible. In order to feel and function better, you should make sure you get all these important nutrients every day. Also, do not forget to exercise to increase endorphins and get enough sleep because the sleep is also very important to help the brain processes information and return to cooperation in daily activities.

Mainstream exposes new 'danger' of vitamin E...

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Mainstream Exposes New 'Dangers' of Vitamin E...   Dear Reader, Sometimes the mainstream media acts like a hulking, simple- minded, Frankenstein. Here's the latest from "Frank" on vitamin E: "Vitamin E cause stroke. Me no like stroke. Me no like vitamin E! Argh!" Thanks, big guy. That's really...not helpful at all. Botched headlines With headlines such as, "Vitamin E increases risk of internal bleeding stroke," and "Vitamin E could trigger a stroke," the mainstream media has, once again, completely botched the reporting. For instance, here's what one newspaper article reported: "It turns out that taking Vitamin E, while reducing risk of ischemic stroke by about 10 per cent, actually increases risk of the more-dangerous hemorrhagic stroke by 22 per cent." Well, no, it doesn't "turn out" — as if, finally, this is the end of the story. And there's zero evidence that a quality vitamin E supplement would "actually increase risk" of hemorrhagic stroke. This vitamin E news isn't based on a clinical trial. It was a meta-analysis of several clinical trials, so it's open to all kinds of interpretation. And you know who saw right through all that? The newspaper readers! It was like they became a mob of angry villagers, grabbing torches and pitchforks to go after the mainstream Frankenstein. In the comment section included with the blog article, several readers asked about the forms of vitamin E used and the dosages. In comment after comment there are intelligent questions that SHOULD have been raised by the blogger, who instead just parroted the conclusion of the study. So what's the real deal with the meta-analysis? Well, it's a mess. As usual! First of all, many of the subjects in these studies weren't at all healthy to begin with. One study enrolled only smokers — more than 28,000! That's a HUGE cohort already at risk of stroke. Another study recruited only subjects who had experienced cardiovascular disease events. And in two studies, a combined total of more than 17,500 subjects were at high risk of cardiovascular disease. And vitamin E played a role in their strokes? Riiiight... From very bad to much worse! Of the nine studies included in the analysis, four of them used a synthetic form of E known as dl-alpha. Which is simply junk. In fact, Dr. Spreen recommends that dl-alpha only be used topically because, over time, it may actually do harm when taken internally. The subjects in those four "synthetic" studies accounted for about half of all the subjects in the combined studies. Which means that half of this meta-analysis is based on junk. So here's the ACCURATE headline for any media report on this study: "Junk form of vitamin E may slightly increase stroke risk among unhealthy patients." Honestly, I don't have all the numbers, so my made-up headline is possibly misleading. But I'll bet it's more accurate than the blatantly absurd headlines suggesting that any vitamin E supplement increases hemorrhagic stroke risk. You can put a torch to that one and stick a pitchfork in it. Continues below...  Mark Haub has come up with a diet plan that seems to have been designed by a seven-year-old. Haub is a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, in the US. He recently went on a weight-loss diet that strictly limited his calorie intake to 1,800 per day. But most of those calories came from cakes, biscuits and other 'unhealthy' treats. He also consumed one protein shake per day, some low-calorie vegetables, and a multivitamin. The results were impressive: He lost nearly 30 pounds in two months. And this is a guy whose previous weight-loss attempts with healthy diets were unsuccessful. Haub says he wanted to show his students that pure calorie counting is the secret to a successful diet. Consume fewer calories than you burn and you'll drop the pounds. Okay, he lost weight, but other health problems sprang up, right? Wrong. What's genuinely bewildering is that Haub's 'good' cholesterol increased by 20 per cent, his 'bad' dropped by the same amount, and his triglycerides dropped even more significantly — by nearly 40 per cent! Haub is shaking his head in wonder at those three developments. He recognizes that the diet should be unhealthy, but as he told CNN, "The data doesn't say that." Okay, so he lost weight, and his heart-health markers all went in the right direction, but he must have felt awful, right? Wrong. Haub says the first day was the worst, but after that he began to feel better and better. In fact, his nightly sleep apnoea problem was so dramatically reduced that his general quality of life improved. Maybe it's time to buy stock in a cake company! Haub limited his diet to 10 weeks, so we can only guess what the long-term results might be. I think they would be disastrous, with a complete reversal of those heart-health numbers and onset of type 2 diabetes.

 

How to Prevent Your Supplements From Losing Their Potency   Dear Reader, When dark spots develop in supplement capsules, you know that can't be good. But this is a common problem when supplements are exposed to one or more of the three thieves of potency: temperature, humidity, and light. Fortunately, there's an easy step you can take to control those thieves. And you'll not only avoid dark spots, you'll also be sure to get the very highest potency out of your daily supplements. Stop, thief! The one place in the home that's specifically designed to store medicines — namely, the medicine cabinet — turns out to be the worst place to store drugs and supplements. Humidity is the primary culprit. After a shower, your bathroom is damp and muggy and because humidity like that can be penetrating, Perdue University researchers conducted an experiment to see how vitamin C holds up under various temperature and relative humidity conditions. The quick answer: Not so good. High temperature and humidity (especially humidity) had significant effects on degradation of vitamin C supplements. Needless to say, in the midst of cold and flu season, you'd want to get every bit of the potency from your daily vitamin C. The Perdue team writes: "This research highlights the importance of considering phase transformations when constructing shelf life models and maintaining vitamin C in the solid state for enhanced stability." That's a scientist's way of saying, "Get the supplements out of the bathroom — now!" More specifically, it's the water soluble vitamins that degrade when exposed to bathroom humidity. Here are the eight water-soluble:  * Vitamin C  * Vitamin B1  * Vitamin B2  * Vitamin B6  * Vitamin B12  * Niacin  * Folate / Folic acid  * Pantothenic acid

A simple way to protect your heart

Dear Reader, I'm not going to lie. I can get a bit of a sweet tooth every now and then. Of course, I try to stick to satisfying it with healthy choices — fresh fruits, sometimes a little dark chocolate. I was happy to learn that one of my favourite summertime treats — a big slice of ripe watermelon — could actually be even better for me than I thought it was! I knew about the fibre and nutrients, but new research has added another benefit to the list — lower blood pressure. In the first study of its kind in humans, US researchers at Florida State University found that watermelon may be a potent fighter of pre-hypertension, which can lead to heart disease. Nine participants took 6g of two amino acids from watermelon extract, L-citrulline and L-arginine, every day for six weeks. Researchers found that the amino acids led to improved arterial function, which resulted in lowered aortic blood pressure — in every single one of the participants. The lead researcher on the study was impressed enough to say that watermelon could prevent pre hypertension from progressing to hypertension — which could be very good news for people whose doctors want to put them on drugs as a prevention measure. So why is watermelon such a powerful heart protector? The amino acid L-citrulline is closely related to L-arginine, which is essential for forming the nitric oxide that keeps blood pressure at a healthy level. L-citrulline is converted into L-arginine in the body. Why not just take L-arginine as a supplement? Well — it's not very well tolerated, and can cause GI trouble and diarrhoea. Watermelon, on the other hand, is perfectly safe and well tolerated. In fact, the participants in the study didn't report a single side effect. Plus, there are all of the other benefits of watermelon — vitamins A, B6, and C, fibre, potassium, lycopene (which can also aid in maintaining healthy blood pressure)...and other research shows that watermelon could even help manage blood sugar. Researchers say that watermelon or watermelon extract is the best natural source for L-citrulline, but that you can also get it in pills — in a synthetic form. It's best to go natural, and the best dose, according to the Florida State University team, is 4 to 6 grams per day. Of course, you should consult with a doctor skilled in natural medicine to find the best dose for you.