Vitamin E promotes healthy brain function!

Vitamin E promotes healthy brain function!

Two recently published studies show how diets rich in vitamin E benefit the brain. In the first, Japanese researchers showed that vitamin E helped prevent the disintegration and death of neurons in the area of the brain linked to factual learning and memory, the hippocampus.

Researchers concluded that vitamin E may play a critical role in lowering the damaging effects of free radicals in this important area of the brain. In the second, Indiana University researchers?published study in the American Journal of Epidemiology concluded that low blood levels of vitamin E were significantly associated with poor memory performance in the elderly.

This major study examined a multi-ethnic population of more than 4,800 people aged 60 and above, over a sixyear period ?one of the first studies to discover a link between vitamin deficiency and memory!