Vitamin E

Many of you may be taking Vitamin E because you know it is supposed to be good for your heart. Vitamin E is an antioxidant which intercepts free radicals and prevents them from creating inflammation in the blood vessels where lipids have formed plagues. Free radicals will cause inflammation around these plaques which causes them to begin to go into a chain reaction which will end up in small pieces of the plaque breaking off and begin floating free in the blood stream.

The danger here is that piece of free floating plaque may become lodged in a small blood vessel in the heart or in the brain. If it is the heart, you end up with a hear attack. If it is the brain, you end up with a stroke.

So Vitamin E is good for your heart but also for your brain.

I'll talk more tomorrow on sources.