What happens if i take vitamen E pills, i hear it's good for your skin and scars, can i take the pills?

Question

I'm 16 year old. Right now I put vitamen E the oil on my skin when i have a scar or a cut. also i hear it's good for the skin. does it have the same effect or do the same thing if i take the pill. Should i take the vitamen E pill is goo for me just to take one once a day. or so and so. Thanks!

Answer 1

I was told at a pharmacy that yes, taking vitamin E will help with your scars. Once a day or as directed on the bottle should be fine.

Answer 2

Well vitamins are only good if your lacking in them from your diet, otherwise as you can imagine your body doesnt need them and you just them out. I think vitamin E is best applied topically like what you are already doing. Its such a grey area to say they are good for the skin as really it depends on what is wrong with the skin that your trying to make better. Work from your problem forward rather than solution backwards if that makes sense. Define what you want to fix, know whats causing that and then go in from that angle, for example vitamin E will have no great result for stopping acne as that has to do with sebascious glands and hormones etc it will only help prevent scarring. If i remember right vitamin E is really only for skin elasticity and thats why its great on scar tissue, but at 16 skin doesnt really come any more elastic than yours!!!! I think you can try it for a while to see what you think but if you dont see results save your money, your just peeing it out otherwise.

Answer 3

WASHINGTON – People loading up on vitamin E supplements to stay healthy may be making a mistake. Researchers say most pills have only one form of the nutrient and it can be harmful in large doses.
People should take Only modest levels of vitamin E in pills and then eat foods that contain more complete forms of the nutrient, said Stephan Christen, a biochemist and researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

Earlier studies had shown that vitamin E protects against heart disease and cancer and slows aging by absorbing oxygen free radicals, destructive chemicals that form during metabolism and when the body fights disease.

But a study to be published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that alpha–tocopherol, the form of vitamin E found in pills, does an incomplete job of neutralizing some compounds.

To get full benefit from the vitamin, people also need garnmatocopherol, found in soybeans, nuts and grains, said Christen, lead author of the study.

The researcher said he hopes vitamin pill companies soon will add that second form of the vitamin to their formulas. It is the main form of vitamin E in the American diet, said Christen, "but it stays in the body only a short time."

Christen said that of the E vitamins, only gammatocopherol gets rid of peroxynitrite, a highly destructive nitric oxide radical found at sites of inflammation. Where there is chronic inflammation, he said, peroxynitrite can start processes leading to cancer and heart disease.

In laboratory tests, Christen said, California researchers found that gamma–tocopherol also was the only one of the E vitamin forms that could permanently trap and remove nitrogen oxide, a chemical commonly found in polluted air.

Additionally, the studies showed that high levels of alpha–tocopherol reduce the levels of gammatocopherol in the blood. Thus, said Christen, high doses of current vitamin E pills actually can block a beneficial natural nutrient.

"The initial evidence is pretty clear," he said. "We should not be taking only alpha–tocopherol in supplements."

Since few pills now contain both the alpha and gamma forms of vitamin E, Christen said people should limit the amount of the supplement they take. Amounts above 100 international units may be harmful, he said.

John Hathcock, of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade association for vitamin pill makers, disagreed. He said high doses of vitamin E have been found to lower the "bad" type of cholesterol in the blood.



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Answer 4

Yeah but don't take too much.

Answer 5

yea its good to take......i used it for my scar too