How Can Vitamin E Benefit My Health?
Living a healthy lifestyle is a combination of a few different factors. Diet, exercise, adequate sleep, and stress management can all help support your health. Making sure that your body gets the vitamins and nutrients it needs is another way to promote your health. One important vitamin to pay attention to is vitamin E. A powerful antioxidant, vitamin E can help support heart health, eye health, and immune function. Would you like to learn more about the benefits of vitamin E? Read this article from Centrum to learn where you can get vitamin E and what benefits it offers.
What Is Vitamin E?
Vitamin E is an antioxidant found in foods and supplements. Like other antioxidants, vitamin E helps protect against damage from free radicals.[1] We hear the words “free radicals” and “antioxidants” often these days in conversations about health—let’s break down what those words mean. Free radicals are unstable molecules that form from natural body processes.[2] Free radicals can cause damage to your cells. Luckily, antioxidants like vitamin E might be able to help. Antioxidants fight free radical damage, which may help your cells stay healthier for longer.
What Are the Benefits of Vitamin E?
Vitamin E benefits your health in more ways than one. Here are some of the health benefits of vitamin E:
- Vitamin E helps support heart health by preventing the oxidation of low-density lipoproteins (LDL, or “bad” cholesterol) by free radicals.[3]
- Vitamin E helps support eye health. Found in the retina, vitamin E may protect against light-induced oxidative damage.[4]
- Like other antioxidants, vitamin E plays an important role in immune function. Research shows that diets low in vitamin E have adverse effects on the immune system, inhibiting the immune system from functioning as it should.[5]
- Vitamin E, an antioxidant, supports skin health by protecting skin from potential free radical damage.[6]
Where Can I Get Vitamin E?
Luckily, vitamin E is present in many of the foods we eat. You can also take a multivitamin with vitamin E, like Centrum Adults Multivitamin. It’s pretty rare to be deficient in vitamin E, so you don’t necessarily need to supplement unless your doctor recommends it. Here are some foods with vitamin E to add to your daily menu:
- Nuts
- Seeds
- Avocados
- Leafy greens
- Wheat germ oil
- Butternut squash
- Shrimp
- Asparagus
- …and many more!
We hope you enjoyed learning about the benefits of vitamin E. For more on vitamins, learn about vitamin D next.
