New York : Body builders have known for over eight decades that a diet rich in vitamin can help build strong muscles, but scientists have only now figured out one important way the vitamin works, says IANS.
One big problem for many cells, such as muscle cells, is that the plasma membrane, which essentially keeps a cell from spilling its contents and controls what moves in and out, tears just from being used.
Vitamin E helps repair these membranes and thus contributes to keeping muscles healthy, the findings showed. “Every cell in your body has a plasma membrane, and every membrane can be torn,” said corresponding author of the study Paul McNeil, cell biologist at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University in the US.
“Part of how we build muscle is a more natural tearing and repair process — that is the no pain, no gain portion — but if that repair does not occur, what you get is muscle cell death. If that occurs over a long period of time, what you get is muscle-wasting disease,” McNeil explained.
