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'Anti-ageing' vitamin could weaken your bones
Tuesday March 06, 2012 08:15:44 AM,
IANS
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London: Vitamin E,
dubbed the "anti-ageing" vitamin may actually weaken your bones
before their time.
Animals fed on a diet supplemented with the vitamin developed
bones 20 percent weaker than those that ate normally, within just
eight weeks, says a study.
The study looked at the effect of alpha-tocopherol, the most
common form of the vitamin, on bone strength, the journal Nature
Medicine reported.
Bone is constantly changing, with old bone broken down and new
bone being built. Osteoporosis occurs when old bone is broken down
by the body far more quickly than it is replaced, according to the
Daily Mail.
In the Japanese study, mice genetically modified to have low
levels of the vitamin in their blood, grew bones that were
extra-thick.
In another experiment, giving normal mice alpha-tocopherol vitamin
E supplements at doses equivalent to those taken by people, led to
their bones thinning by a fifth in just two months. The same
result was seen in rats.
The vitamin, found in cereals, nuts, olive oil and egg yolks, is
credited with helping hold back the hands of time by "fighting
ageing from within".
Vitamin E benefits include lower heart disease, cancers and
cataract risks as well as helping keep the mind sharp into old age
and the skin supple.
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