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In the Sacramento and Davis regional area, scientists at UC Davis are studying the effects of natural vitamin E on the prevention or reduction of strokes. And UC Davis researchers also are studying the effects of vitamin E on macular degeneration.
Organic (red) palm oil does have a specific TCT content. Check out the Tocotrienol.org website for further information regarding the amounts in various foods of TCT (tocotrienol). You also could apply the oil directly on your face as a moisturizer. Some people claim the oil helps their patches of psoriasis to significantly become less dry/scaly and reduced in size. But speaking of another oil, coconut oil, it does make a great topical skin deodorant when warmed to a liquid state.
Check out the July 5, 2011 news release, “Study: Preventive use of one form of natural vitamin E may reduce stroke damage,” by Emily Caldwell. When you take vitamin E supplements, be sure it’s in just a small amount and that it does contain tocotrienos and not only tocopherols. Also see the July 1, 2011 article, “‘Gifted’ Natural Vitamin E Tocotrienol Protects Brain Against Stroke In 3 Ways.”
In the study, 24 hours after a stroke, lesions indicating brain tissue damage were about 80 percent smaller in dogs that received supplementation than were the lesions in dogs that received no intervention. Imaging tests showed that the treated animals’ brains had better blood flow at the stroke site as compared to untreated dogs’ brains, a difference attributed to tiny collateral blood vessels’ ability to improve circulation in the brain when blood flow stopped in more substantial vessels.
“For the first time, in this pre-clinical large-animal model, we were able to see something that we were never able to see in the mouse or the rat: that if you had a stroke and you had prophylactically taken tocotrienol, the area of the brain affected by the stroke received blood flow from the collaterals,” said Chandan Sen, professor and vice chair for research in Ohio State’s Department of Surgery and senior author of the study, according to the news release. “These collaterals, which are an emergency response system, wake up when the blood circulation in the brain is challenged.”
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