How Can Vitamin E Help the Appearance and Health?

For women, vitamin E plays a very important role not only in beauty but also in health. The full presence of vitamin E in the body helps women have a smooth, youthful skin, and less wrinkles.

Lack of vitamin E, skin will be dry, wrinkled, and hair loss easily. Therefore, in cosmetic products for skin and hair, vitamin E is included by manufacturers as a factor attracting the attention of women in order to increase sales.

For women during pregnancy, vitamin E contributes favorably to pregnancy and fetal development. Vitamin E deficiency during pregnancy can cause an underdeveloped uterus in a female fetus, and testicular atrophy in a male fetus. In particular, thanks to the effect of reducing free radicals in the body, vitamin E can also reduce the rate of miscarriage or preterm birth.

How Can Vitamin E Help the Appearance and Health?

For women of menopausal age, some studies show that vitamin E works to reduce symptoms of hot flashes and some other nuisances such as menstrual disorders. As for teenage girls, vitamin E can reduce menstrual cramps symptoms.

Which foods contain lots of vitamin E?

Vitamin E comes in two forms: natural and synthetic. Natural vitamin E is most abundant in vegetable oils, with wheat germ oil at the top of the list, followed by sunflower oil.

In addition, vitamin E is also found in sprouts such as bean sprouts, paddy sprouts and appears in lesser content in foods such as green vegetables, meat, fatty fish, eggs, and milk.

Daily diet can meet the body’s needs for vitamin E?

The adult’s vitamin E requirement is about 15mg per day. If you eat a normal diet with vegetable oils and green vegetables, it is not difficult to ensure enough vitamin E requirements.

With special cases such as pregnant women, people with cancer, heart disease, people with dry skin need to fortify vitamin E.

How to eat to absorb vitamin E best?

We already know that in bean sprouts there is a lot of vitamin E, but if you only eat raw bean sprouts, the ability to absorb vitamin E will be very poor. If you mix raw bean sprouts with cooking oil (eaten in mixed salads), vitamin E will be absorbed more. Moreover, the cooking oil itself is also a source of vitamin E, or you can eat fried prices, but when cooked, the vitamin E content is about 20%.

Should vitamin E supplement daily? If used, what should be noted?

Vitamin E is very good for the body, but if it is misused (taken in high doses, prolonged) with the aim of maintaining youth, beauty, the antioxidant effect will be eliminated. At that time, vitamin E will act as a promoter of free radicals in the body, damaging cells.

Some studies also show that, taking high doses of vitamin E can also increase the risk of lung cancer. If high doses of vitamin E are injected into a vein, it can be fatal.

For women, vitamin E supplementation (multivitamin) after 30 years of age is possible, but should only be used for 1-2 months, then rest for a while before taking it again.

The use of vitamin E supplements should also only apply to people with dry skin, poor vitamin E diets. Especially only for those with diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, liver disease, kidney failure, cancer, allergies, chronic inflammation and autoimmune diseases, it is necessary to take vitamin E daily. But each day does not exceed 400 UI (international units), but should only use every 1-2 months, take a time off to use again.

As for normal healthy people, the best way to get vitamin E is from food.

Should vitamin E be applied directly to the skin?

Applying vitamin E to the skin works to prevent the harmful effects of UV rays in the sun. However, applying vitamin E to the skin is only applicable to people with dry, aging skin. For oily skin, applying vitamin E to the face can cause breakouts.

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