USANA Essential Tips

Vitamin E is one of the most important vitamins for people. We should pay particular attention to this amazing vitamin and consider to some benefits of it.

1. Vitamin E and Skin Care- well-known health benefits of vitamin E are skin and lip protection helping retain moisture in the skin and prevents dryness, itchiness, and chapping. It also protects against UV radiation and speeds up wound healing. It can be applied topically and is a main ingredient in most creams, lotions, and sunscreens to prevent acne via antioxidant protection. A report in Clinical & Experimental Dermatology detected a direct link between blood levels of vitamin E, and acne, researchers compared the blood levels of vitamin E in 100 newly diagnosed, yet untreated acne patients to 100 age-matched, healthy volunteers without acne. The healthy, acne free group had higher amounts of vitamin E in their circulatory system than the acne sufferer group.

2. Vitamin E and Diabetes- one of the most important vitamins for people with diabetes improving insulin activity and acts as a blood oxygenator by performing as an antioxidant. The onset of Type 2 diabetes is seen more often in diabetics that have been shown to have low blood levels of vitamin E improving glucose tolerance in non-diabetic elderly and adults with Type 2 diabetes (NIDDM). Damage caused by free-radicals in the blood stream is associated with a deficiency of Vitamin E. The lining of the vascular system can be damaged by the lack vitamin E, but can be prevented by the antioxidant activity of vitamin E.