Can vitamin E rejuvenate?
Vitamin E, also known as tocopherol. This is because early scientists discovered that in animal and mouse experiments, vitamin E is related to fertility, and mice lacking vitamin E cannot have normal fertility. However, there are no such reports in humans. Judging from the structure of vitamin E, it is an antioxidant that can protect the integrity of the body's cell membrane from being damaged by oxidative factors in nature. From this point of view, it seems to be useful in preventing aging or preventing cancer. Help.
However, there are very few people who truly lack vitamin E, so it can be said that most people get enough vitamin E from their diet and do not need to supplement more. Vitamin E is widely distributed in animal and plant tissues. The main source of vitamin E in the diet is vegetable oils, such as wheat germ oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, peanut oil, and soybean oil, but the content is not much in olive oil. Other foods such as dark green vegetables, stone fruits, beans, whole grains, meat, cream, and eggs are rich in vitamin E.
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that requires the presence of bile salts and fat to be absorbed by the body. Generally speaking, the cooking process will also affect the amount of vitamin E. The content of food that is frozen and then fried will be reduced. The vitamin E content of grains that are rolled into powder will only be 20% of the original.
The amount of vitamin E in the diet is generally recommended to be 400 international units per day. However, in recent years, it has become more and more common to recommend high doses of vitamin E, which is why the dosage of 1000 international units has emerged.
Vitamin E deficiency is extremely rare. If it is really lacking, it can cause clinical phenomena such as mild anemia, red blood cell lysis, and abnormal nerve reflexes in the human body. On the contrary, due to the publicity of the efficacy of vitamin E in recent years, such as preventing and treating arteriosclerosis, hypertension, liver dysfunction, muscle relaxation, sexual function decline, hair loss, etc., the phenomenon of indiscriminate and multiple uses of vitamin E continues to occur. Vitamin E, among fat-soluble vitamins, is considered to be relatively non-toxic. However, taking too much is not good for heart patients. It can lead to increased blood pressure and increased cholesterol, making the condition of cardiovascular patients worse. However, if a normal person takes too much, it can cause a decrease in male testosterone, while women will experience symptoms such as irregular menstrual blood. (Editor in charge: Tian Tian)