doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1356369 Received 15 December 2023 Accepted 26 March 2024 Published 10 April 2024 Volume 15 - 2024 Edited by Shawn Iadonato, Kineta, United States Reviewed by Wenzheng Guo, University of Kentucky, United States Pinglong Xu, Zhejiang University, China Updates Copyright 2024 Schmid, Fischer, Engl, Widder, Kerschbaum-Gruber and Slade
Bioavailability of vitamin E in humans: An update
While its main function is to carry out cellular respiration, a process that converts nutrients from food into ATP, there are many other functions mitochondria perform, including metabolic signaling, calcium regulation, autophagy (cellular clean-up) and apoptosis (cell death), neurogenesis (growth of new nerve tissue) and neuronal plasticity (aka neuroplasticity- our brains ability to grow and adapt), as well as the synthesis of other molecules (especially those in the immune system)
The difference is that these medications have undergone years of research and large-scale clinical trials before receiving regulatory approval
