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Fill up on vitamin E: how and why?

As key players in the molecules your body is still unable to synthesize, vitamins can only be recovered through the diet.

Your vitamin E needs, for example, can only be met by consuming certain ingredients such as oils (soy, sunflower, wheat), nuts, seeds or cereals.

However, it's not always easy to compose a sufficiently varied diet.

In such a situation, the alternative to consuming conventional foodstuffs is to take a targeted dietary supplement.

While there are many sites on the web that give you a few hints on how you should adjust your diet to avoid deficiencies and provide your body with everything it needs for good health, few explain why vitamin E is necessary for your cells and how it is processed by your body.

Accustomed to exploring the subjects they cover in depth to help you understand what you'd gain from eating, why and how, the MyPUREskin team pushes open the door of your cells and takes you on a journey to the heart of your nutrition mechanisms.

Ready to follow vitamin E on its journey?

Vitamins, membrane transport and cells: how does vitamin E get into your body?

Comprising eight different molecules with common functions, vitamin E takes flight from your plate and travels to your body's cells in 4 stages:

  • You consume foods or food supplements containing vitamin E;
  • Your digestive system extracts nutrients from what you eat, including vitamin E;
  • Vitamin E passes through the wall of your intestine;
  • It joins your bloodstream and enters the various cells of your body.

Whether it's your intestine, your heart or your skin, your body's cells are like "VIP areas" where the active ingredients you consume meet.

These tiny constituents of your body have entrance doors that guests (such as vitamins) can use as long as they have a pass.

To leave your digestive system, vitamin E must undergo an initial "identity check", orchestrated by the specialized cells lining your intestinal wall: the enterocytes.

Vitamin E pathways in enterocytes

To have a chance of passing from the "intestinal lumen" (i.e. the inside of your intestine) to the enterocytes, vitamin E is encapsulated in "little oil bubbles" (lipid emulsions) which break down into smaller, water-soluble lipid units: water-soluble micelles.

micelle

It was long thought that vitamin E penetration of enterocytes via micelles was a passive process, thanks to the particular shape of these cells (with their tentacle-like microvilli bathed in the intestinal lumen).

enterocyte

It is only since the work of Emmanuelle Reboul published in 2006¹ that we know of the existence of a specific protein enabling fat-soluble vitamins (i.e. vitamins capable of "clinging" to lipids), such as vitamin E, to cross the membrane of enterocyte cells.

Vitamin E uses this membrane transporter, from which it will separate once inside the cell.

Vitamin E and chylomicrons: from enterocytes to the bloodstream

However, vitamin E is not yet ready to enter the bloodstream.

To pass through the part of the cell membrane next to the blood vessels (the "basal" membrane), it has to prepare itself.

This is why enterocytes produce lipoproteins, capable of passing hydrophobic molecules (such as fat-soluble vitamin E) into the bloodstream (which "prefers" hydrophilic molecules).

More precisely, chylomicrons, lipoproteins produced during digestion, are responsible for transporting vitamin E past the second membrane checkpoint into the bloodstream.

chylomicron

From the liver to other organs: vitamin E's last stop

Once in the bloodstream, vitamin E once again abandons its carriers (chylomicrons) and heads for the liver, where it produces other lipoproteins. These take over for the final leg of the journey.

They carry the vitamin E to all the cells in your other organs, where it is released.

Vitamin E and synergy: from blood vessels to organ cells

Only once it has reached the various cells where it is needed can vitamin E begin to work.

By reaching the heart, then the lungs, and eventually the skin, vitamin E is not only processed by your cells to help them carry out certain reactions, but also, and above all, dispatched to their surface.

Acting as a free-radical neutralizer, vitamin E will protect the cell wall from oxidative stress, helping to improve the quality of the reactions taking place in your cells, while increasing their potential life expectancy.

Role and location of vitamin e in the cell membrane

Vitamin E synergy: why use other active ingredients with vitamin E?

As Jean-Claude Guilland of the biology technical platform at Dijon University Hospital reminds us in an article published in March 2011²the life cycle of vitamin E is intimately linked to the presence of vitamin C.

In fact, the presence of these two active ingredients increases vitamin E's shelf life. This ability to achieve different effects when two active principles are consumed simultaneously, compared to when they are ingested separately, is known as "synergy".

Faced with the loss of nutritional value of fruits and vegetables produced on an industrial scale over the last hundred years (whose varieties are not necessarily selected for their level of nutrition), more and more people are turning to dietary supplements.

In addition, the progressive disruption of various cellular functions induced by the aging process raises a question: how do you choose an effective dietary supplement that respects your health?

MyCollagenLift : a nutricosmetic that respects your nutritional needs

Because nutrition is an essential pillar of your daily quality of life, MyPUREskin laboratories have chosen to deploy their know-how and energy to help you optimize it.

In creating a formula of proven effectiveness, our team has taken full advantage of the properties of vitamin E and the synergy that links it to a batch of all-natural ingredients.

"Nourish, stimulate, protect": the maxim of the MyCollagenLift dietary supplement is absolutely relevant, as part of an effort to support your aging process, thanks to :

  • Vitamin E, whose support in neutralizing free radicals is a breath of oxygen for your skin;
  • Vitamin C (extracted from acerola fruit), whose antioxidant power makes it an essential molecule in a quality formula;
  • Collagen peptides (more bioavailable than non-hydrolyzed collagen) help your body to continue producing endogenous collagen;
  • Hyaluronic acid, the cornerstone of intense hydration for your skin;
  • Wheat ceramides (gluten-free) whose properties support this hydration process by helping to prevent your body's insensible loss of water;
  • Organic silicon, whose skin-restructuring role is a perfect complement to your body's efforts to maintain firm skin;
  • Grape OPC and zinc, whose relevance to free electrons enhances the effectiveness of the MyCollagenLift formula.

Designed to offer your body the full effectiveness of a combination of active ingredients in line with the latest scientific discoveries in nutrition, MyCollagenLift will accompany you at every stage of your life to support you in your quest for "wellness".

Still hesitating to take the plunge? Remember this: for an initial 3-month course of treatment, the first results will be visible as early as 4 weeks!

  1. Study by researcher Emmanuelle Reboul on the intestinal absorption mechanisms of vitamin E: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5745505
  2. Article by Jean-Claude Guilland: https://www.ocl-journal.org/articles/ocl/full_html/2011/02/ocl2011182p59/ocl2011182p59.html