Vitamin E from forages and supplem...

Vitamin E from forages and supplements may help gradual decline in mental functioning among older tribe according to the results of a studious mood conducted on the elderly. The researchers theorize that vitamin E counteracts the damage done to brain lonely dwellings by free radicals--by-products of normal carcass processes that can damage tissue.

According to the findings, published in the July 2002 issue of The Archives of Neurology 61 percent of controls showed some decline in mental function through a three-year period, while 39 percent showed no decline or on a level improved. The group reporting the highest intake of vitamin E had a slower decline in mental function than those whose vitamin E intake was lowest.

The protective consequence of supplements on mental skill, however, was seen simply in subjects who received little vitamin E from their diets. Those who already received sufficient amounts of the vitamin in their diets showed no additional improvement by means of supplementation.

"There may be a ceiling efficiency and if you're taking more, it's not helpful," says lead subject of attention author Martha Clare Morris, PhD of the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging and assistant professor of internal medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago.

The same team reports similar findings from a separate study--published in the June 26 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association--for vitamin E and Alzheimer's disease. High intake of vitamin E is linked to a 70 percent reduction in the risk of developing the disease. Together, the pair studies strongly suggest that vitamin E has an protective effect on the brain.

Vitamin E is construct in green, leafy vegetables, corn, nut olives and vegetable oils.

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