Tocotrienols
Best Vitamin E For The Heart

Tocotrienols, bet you have not heard about this part of the essential vitamin E, most people have not.There are eight forms of vitamin E: four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. While they’re all antioxidants, the differences between them could easily fill a book. It is the former not the latter that has heart and cancer benefits.

Vitamin E is one of the most important phytonutrients in edible oils. The four tocopherols are (alpha, beta, gamma and delta) and the four tocotrienols are (alpha, beta, gamma and delta) homologues. No natural source gives all eight. The main difference for us laymen is the tocotrienols have a shorter "tail" that can penetrate the fatty outer layer of a cell membrane and "attack" a cholesterol-creating enzyme called HMG-CoA. This helps reduce cholesterol oxidation and promotes normal cholesterol levels.
Tocotrienols available in food (listed by strength)
• Palm Oil
• Barley
• Rice Bran
• Oat
• Wheat Germ
• Coconut Oil
• Cocoa Butter

Tocotrienols offer a great many health benefits that the general public has not yet been made aware of. This chemical part of vitamin E is rarely found in store bought vitamin E products because these products are synthetic and do not contain natural tocotrienols.

The researched backed health benefits of tocotrienols

• Lowers LDL cholesterol
• Lowers blood cholesterol by inhibiting production in the liver
• Suppress plasma cholesterol
• Reverses arterial blockage (Human palm oil; study)
• Human research showed patients, with confirmed carotid arteriosclerosis, who consumed 240mg of palm based tocotrienols/ day for 18-36 months had a decrease in the amount of cholesterol plaque in their carotid artery. Placebo did not show any effect.
• Palm based Inhibits platelet aggregation reducing clots.
• Palm based inhibits human breast cancer cells.
Tocopherols do not Delta isomers were found to be the most effective in cell death.
• Inhibits tumor growth in some cancers.
• Alpha and gamma isomers have shown to prolong life in mice with cancer.
• Gamma tocotrientol is 3 times more potent than the drug Tamoxifen in inhibiting growth of human breast cancer cells.
• Alpha-tocotrienol has been shown to be 40 - 60 times more potent than alpha-tocopherol as an antioxidant in the prevention of lipid peroxidation.
• Delta-tocotrienol is the most potent antioxidant (highest antioxidant potency) of all commercially available tocotrienols and has been shown to be the most effective tocotrienol in inhibiting human breast cancer and liver cancer cells.
• First line of defense against free radicals generated in the skin by UV/ozone rays. Prevention of skin aging and damage by oxidative rays. Being a more potent antioxidant, the tocotrienols neutralizes free radicals at a faster rate and hence protect tocopherols.
• Protection against UV-induced skin damage and skin aging.
• Palm gamma-tocotrienol has ability to prevent development of increased blood pressure in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR) after 3 months supplementation.
In accordance with the FDA these products are not intended to treat, cure, mitigate, or prevent any diseases. Information on this site is given for educational purposes only and is not to replace the advice of your health care professional.

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