Vitamin E (video)

POSITIVE EFFECTS OF ALPHA TOCOPHEROL ie Vitamin E.

This is assuming you aren't AA homozygous or AG heterozygous for GSTP1.

Also this assumes that you are taking real vitamin E and not the fake version designated by a dl prefix.

  1. It reduces the oxygen requirement of tissues. Hove, Hickman, and Harris (1945) Arch. Biochem. 8:395. Telford et al (1954) Air University School of Aviation Medicine Project #21-1201-0013, Report #4, May. Randolph Field, Texas.

  2. It melts fresh clots, and prevents embolism. Shute, Vogelsang, Skelton and Shute (1948) Surg., Gyn. and Obst. 86:1. Wilson and Parry (1954) Lancet 1:486.

  3. It improves collateral circulation. Enria and Fererro (1951) Arch. per Ia Scienze Med. 91:23. Domingues and Dominguez (1953) Angiologia 5:51

  4. It is a vasodilator. Shute, Vogelsang, Skelton and Shute (1948) Surg., Gyn. and Obst. 86:1.

  5. It occasionally lyses scar tissue. Steinberg (1948) Med. Clin. N. America 30:221, 1946.

  6. It prevents scar contraction as wounds heal. Shute, Vogelsang, Skelton and Shute (1948) Surg., Gyn. and Obst. 86:1.

  7. It increases low platelet counts. SkeIton, Shute, Skinner and Waud (1946) Science 103:762.

  8. It decreases the insulin requirement in about 1/4 of diabetics. Butturini (1950) Gior. di Clin. Med. 31:1. Tolgyes (1957) Summary 9:10.

  9. It is one of the regulators of fat and protein metabolism. Hickman (1948) Rec. of Chem. Progress, p.104.

  10. It stimulates muscle power. Percival (1951) Summary 3:55.

  11. It preserves capillary walls. Ames, Baxter and Griffith (1951) International Review of Vitamin Research 22:401.

  12. It prevents haemolysis of red blood cells. Rose and Gyorgy (1951) Fed. Proc.10:239. 1951.

  13. It decreases inflammation Singh U, Jialal I., Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2004 Dec;1031:195-203. Anti-inflammatory effects of alpha-tocopherol.

 

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