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Scientific papers in plain language, explainers you can watch, and updates from the tocotrienol community. Search or filter by health area.
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Scientific papers in plain language, explainers you can watch, and updates from the tocotrienol community. Search or filter by health area.
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Posted 29 Sept 2026, 12:00 MYT
Not all evidence is equal. Learn the three levels used on our body map, and what each one can and cannot tell you.
Posted 25 Sept 2026, 18:00 MYT
A short animated explainer: the vitamin E family, the tail that makes the difference, where tocotrienols come from and what research is looking at.
Posted 22 Sept 2026, 09:00 MYT
Tocotrienols dissolve in fat, not water. Studies show absorption is much higher when they are taken with a meal that contains some fat.
Serbinova E, Kagan V, Han D, Packer L
Free Radical Biology & Medicine · 1991
In membrane models, alpha-tocotrienol stopped lipid oxidation 40–60 times more efficiently than alpha-tocopherol.
Shen CL, Yang S, Tomison MD, et al.
Osteoporosis International · 2018
Postmenopausal women with low bone density took annatto tocotrienol or placebo for 12 weeks. Markers of bone breakdown and oxidative stress fell with tocotrienol.
Pervez MA, Khan DA, Ijaz A, Khan S
Turkish Journal of Gastroenterology · 2018
Patients with NAFLD took delta-tocotrienol or placebo. The study reported improvements in liver enzymes, inflammation and oxidative-stress markers, and in the fatty liver index.
Magosso E, Ansari MA, Gopalan Y, et al.
Nutrition Journal · 2013
Adults with ultrasound-diagnosed fatty liver took mixed tocotrienols or placebo for one year. More people in the tocotrienol group returned to a normal liver ultrasound.
Posted 12 Sept 2026, 15:00 MYT
Three plants supply most of the world’s tocotrienols, and each gives a different isomer mix.
Parker RA, Pearce BC, Clark RW, Gordon DA, Wright JJ
Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1993
Tocotrienols lowered levels of HMG-CoA reductase, the main cholesterol-making enzyme, by speeding up its breakdown.
Gopalan Y, Shuaib IL, Magosso E, et al.
Stroke · 2014
Adults with existing white-matter lesions took mixed tocotrienols or placebo for two years; lesions grew less in the tocotrienol group.
Khanna S, Roy S, Slivka A, et al.
Stroke · 2005
Rats given oral alpha-tocotrienol before an induced stroke showed smaller areas of brain damage than untreated animals.
Sen CK, Khanna S, Roy S, Packer L
Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2000
Very low (nanomolar) amounts of alpha-tocotrienol stopped nerve cells dying after a glutamate challenge in the lab.
Posted 30 Aug 2026, 10:00 MYT
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Posted 20 Aug 2026, 10:00 MYT
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