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Watch: Tocotrienols in 60 seconds
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.
Palm tocotrienols and brain white-matter lesions over two years
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.
Oral alpha-tocotrienol and stroke-related brain injury in rats
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.
Tocotrienol protects nerve cells from glutamate-triggered death
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.