Vitamins are essential nutrients and therefore, they must come through the food we consume. Some vitamins are soluble in water while some are not. Vitamin E belongs to the class of fat soluble vitamins. The term “vitamin E” actually denotes two classes of compounds called tocopherols and tocotrienols. Both of them show vitamin E activity. There is a subtle difference in structure between the tocopherols and tocotrienols, the latter being more unsaturated. There are four each of tocopherols and tocotrienols. The best known function of vitamin E is to act as an antioxidant. The tocotrienols are in the news because of their superior antioxidant activity.
Woman’s World magazine includes Red Palm Fruit Oil in article on lowering breast cancer risk
Robin Miller
Everyone knows someone who has been affected by breast cancer. The deadly disease claims the lives of too many of our mothers, sisters and daughters each year. The good news is incidences of breast cancer have been dropping over the past decade, but we can’t stop there. News that products made with healthy palm oil may play a role in thwarting the spread of breast cancer cells is getting widespread attention.
Tocotrienol E Boosts HDL Cholesterol While Lowering Advanced Glycation End Products
Byron J. Richards
The tocotrienol form of vitamin E is now on an anti-aging tear. Recently I reported how this form of vitamin E was shown to extend the length of telomeres, enabling cells to live longer. A new human study shows that it boosts protective HDL Cholesterol while lowering a key marker of aging – advanced glycation end products. A new animal experiment shows that tocotrienols significantly reduce the damage from experimentally induced stroke. These new studies add even more evidence of the extreme health benefits offered by this special form of vitamin E, as I extensively reviewed in my previous article, Tocotrienols: Twenty Years of Dazzling Cardiovascular and Cancer Research.
Gamma Tocotrienol Weakens and Kills Prostate Cancer Cells
Byron J. Richards
Protection of both women’s and men’s sexual organs is important for survival and quality of life. Previously, I reported on exciting research relating to gamma tocotrienol and breast cancer in my article, Gamma Tocotrienol for Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment. New research now shows that gamma tocotrienol may be quite helpful for prostate cancer prevention and treatment.
Gamma Tocotrienol E Can Help Asthma
Byron J. Richards
Tocotrienols are a unique form of vitamin E that possess many biologically active properties that plain vitamin E does not. Researchers have now shown that gamma tocotrienol can influence gene signals of immune cells in the lungs in a way that prevents key problems involved with the pathogenesis of asthma.
Researchers Probe the Potential Health Benefits of Palm Oil
Neel Chowdhury
Palm oil has a pretty bad reputation. The product of this hard-shell red fruit, harvested primarily on plantations in Southeast Asia, is typically used as cheap cooking oil for fried foods like noodles and curry puffs. Indeed, by the time the palm oil is processed, much of its nutritional value is destroyed. And the fact that it can congeal at room temperature makes it even look extra artery clogging.
VITAMIN E: Tocotrienols good for bones
Ima Nirwana Soelaiman
OSTEOPOROSIS is a generalised, degenerative disorder of the skeleton. As a person ages, the bone will lose its density and become thinner and more porous. This will make the bone more susceptible to fractures. There are many causes of osteoporosis, such as lack of the sex hormones oestrogen and testosterone, which occurs as a woman or a man ages, heavy smoking, calcium and vitamin D deficiency, as well as excess of thyroid and steroid hormones.
Vitamin E tocotrienols work through multiple pathways to delay disease onset and extend lifespan
John Phillip
The result of several new research bodies that have been published all point to the powerful effect of vitamin E tocotrienols to prevent stomach cancer, reduce fatty liver disease incidences and prevent disease mechanisms that can extend natural lifespan in humans.
Tocotrienol E Helps Reduce Fatty Liver
Byron J. Richards
It is understood that as your belly grows in size fat also piles up in your liver and clogs it into a state of poor function that leads to health decline, and cardiovascular, and metabolic health risks. Two new studies with tocotrienols explain how they can help correct such obesity related distress.
Tocotrienols May Help Stomach Cancer
Byron J. Richards
Stomach cancer is very difficult to treat. Cancer drugs are notoriously ineffective and the other option of having the stomach removed creates many health problems. Researchers tested gamma tocotrienol and found that it could significantly help kill stomach cancer when combined with chemo drugs that typically don’t work well. Furthermore, gammatocotrienol had specific properties of its own to reduce or help prevent stomach cancer.