What is Vitamin E? – Function, Sources, and Deficiency Covered by Dr. Berg

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In this video, Dr. Berg talks about Vitamin E. Vitamin E is essential for heart health and the way that you become deficient in vitamin E mostly is by consuming refined carbohydrates in the form of bread, pasta, cereal, crackers, etc.

It is also unique as it can travel right through the cell. Make sure to get the whole vitamin E complex and not just the individual. He also talks about the different parts of the vitamin E complex.

Different Parts of Vitamin E Complex:
• Alpha Tocopherol – this is mainly used by the liver. This antioxidant travels with LDL or the low-density lipoprotein. LDL is a protein that is carrying cholesterol, triglycerides, vitamin E, and other fat soluble vitamins.
LDL then helps protect the arteries, to help the cholesterol from being oxidized, it can also help decrease the risk of heart disease, stroke, etc. because it is an antioxidant.

• Gamma Tocopherol – This antioxidant has protective factors against smoke. . But when you smoke, this depletes this antioxidant at the same time.
This antioxidant also helps decrease the certain risks of certain types of diseases and supports arteries.

• Tocotrienols – This helps support cholesterol or lipids, it also helps decrease breast disease and is very important to skin health.

Source of Vitamin E:
• Wheat Germ Oil
• Seeds
• Nuts
• Vegetables

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