How Vitamin E Helps To Heal Your Connective Tissue

There is now substantial data to suggest that “nutritional” therapy has a significant role in connective tissue healing. By creating the ideal “nutritional environment” we can encourage new development and accelerate the repair process. So it is vital for those working on closing their diastasis to pay attention to the dietary component of healing connective tissue.

18 Benefits of Vitamin E - Diastasis Rehab

Vitamin E can benefit your body in various areas of the healing process. For example, vitamin E protects the body's tissues from free radicals, which can harm cells and hasten aging. It's also necessary for the development of red blood cells, which distribute oxygen around the body.

Enter Vitamin E. This vitamin is an antioxidant. It is critical to maintain healthy cell membranes and in assisting injured tissues to heal. As mentioned earlier, this mineral neutralizes free radicals which otherwise attack the lipids in the cell membranes. These lipids help repair tissue.

You can get Vitamin E from sunflower seeds, almonds, eggs, asparagus, avocados and kale.

 

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About Julie Tupler RN

Julie Tupler, RN, is a registered nurse, certified childbirth educator, certified personal trainer, and creator of the Tupler Technique® Program, which she developed in 1990. For more than 30 years, she has been teaching and developing the Tupler Technique® Program for the treatment of diastasis recti in women, men, and children. Through Diastasis Rehab, Julie teaches clients and professionals how to use the Tupler Technique® to help address abdominal separation with a non-surgical, research-based approach. She is also the author of multiple books on maternal fitness and diastasis recti, including Maternal Fitness, Lose Your Mummy Tummy, Together Tummy, and Will You Be My Belly Buddy?