Cell membranes are damaged, sometimes beyond repair. Cell contents leak out, and the cell dies. Or, if the damage occurs in the membranes inside a cell, the cell s genetic material is harmed. If the damage occurs in the membrane of the cell s power plant, the mitochondria, trouble multiplies like a breakout fight at a hockey game. Free radicals normally generated inside the mitochondria leak out into the cell.
Cellular unrest spreads like wildfire.
Vitamin E can stop all this by donating one of its own electrons to a free radical. When that happens, there s no chain reaction. Vitamin E stops the outbreak of electron-grabbing dead in its tracks. You could think of it as a playground supervisor for that rowdy game of tag. High-Speed Chase Vitamin E moves with uncanny speed throughout the fluid cell membrane.