That's a real problem for us older, pre-Galaxy Class models.
Posted on 12/20/2011 8:39:06 AM PST by decimon
AUGUSTA, Ga. – It's rubbed on the skin to reduce signs of aging and consumed by athletes to improve endurance but scientists now have the first evidence of one of vitamin E's normal body functions.
The powerful antioxidant found in most foods helps repair tears in the plasma membranes that protect cells from outside forces and screen what enters and exits, Georgia Health Sciences University researchers report in the journal Nature Communications.
Everyday activities such as eating and exercise can tear the plasma membrane and the new research shows that vitamin E is essential to repair. Without repair of muscle cells, for example, muscles eventually waste away and die in a process similar to what occurs in muscular dystrophy. Muscle weakness also is a common complaint in diabetes, another condition associated with inadequate plasma membrane repair.
"Without any special effort we consume vitamin E every day and we don't even know what it does in our bodies," said Dr. Paul McNeil, GHSU cell biologist and the study's corresponding author. He now feels confident about at least one of its jobs.
Century-old animal studies linked vitamin E deficiency to muscle problems but how that happens remained a mystery until now, McNeil said. His understanding that a lack of membrane repair caused muscle wasting and death prompted McNeil to look at vitamin E.
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Ping
“The cell membrane or plasma membrane is a biological membrane that separates the interior of all cells from the outside environment.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Membrane
I’ve been leaking plasma for years.
That's the TV dinners.
Ping.
That’s one way of putting it, lol. Somebody tell Whoopi Goldberg.
You can probably trace that to an excess of Vitamin Pee.
That's a real problem for us older, pre-Galaxy Class models.
Rather than use Neosporin, or something similar, I treat minor scrapes with Vitamin E. I puncture a capsule and squeeze it onto the wound.
The healing is quite remarkable and scaring is minimal.
I also take 1000 iu per day as part of my supplement regimen.
YMMV.
“I’ve been leaking plasma for years.”
Try new ball bearings. It’s all ball bearings these days.
Is that pre-Galaxy the car or the galaxy?
Re: ball bearings. How do you install them, or is that not appropriate for a family-friendly forum?
It's pre-Galaxy Class starship. The Constitution Class was sturdy but had plasma problems before the Galaxy Class was designed with a new system of conduits.
Yes. I'm a geek.
Thanks for the ping. I know that Vitamin E oil rubbed on burns helps with healing.
Thank you!
Gee, that’s beautiful! What’s the MSRP?
It's a 'concept' vehicle. Not available for sale.
You could probably get one in a kit though. =;^)
Drat. Champagne taste and beer pocketbook.
Promotion of plasma membrane repair by vitamin E FReebie
Diabetes starts being discusssed in "Reversal of a diabetes model repair defect."
FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.
What do you recommend as a supplement?
Also, what kind of Vitamin E oil?
Thanks.
CA....
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