It ain’t e tocotrienols delta fraction

Hi

I’m taking the above 125mg and was told not to bother with tocopherols.

90% delta tocotrienol and 10% gamma tocotrienol.

Now I’m reading I should incorporate some tocopherols.

Am I doing harm with just tocotrienol?

Dr Berg talks about taking the whole part of the vitamin.

So have I wasted my money? These aren’t cheap!

Would appreciate any guidance.

Thank you,

[Yeswithasmile]

Now this is really interesting Juanita1957. I have done some reading and can’t find anything detrimental to taking it but the jury is out on dosage. I’m sure someone more scientifically able will be able to give you advice.

If it were me, I’d probably carry on taking it. I may even source some now after reading. It does look like it maybe beneficial for a lot of reasons.

From what I’ve seen it is far superior to tocopherols. I havent seen anything to say you need both but maybe balance is the way forward. 🤷‍♀️ I think it may be early days and a lot more research is needed to know.

Hope someone does come and add much more info at this point.

[auraelya in reply to Yeswithasmile]

In fact, we are talking about 8 naturally occurring components of the same vit. E (4 tocopherols and 4 tocotrienols, each with its "variant": alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-tocopherol and alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-tocotrienol that have different levels of biological activity. The synthetic forms of E vitamin are dangerous, very dangerous, even lethal if taken in a great quantity, so look for the natural sources!

[Yeswithasmile in reply to auraelya]

Yes. I’d read that about the variants. I hadn’t read about mixing them though. I had believed they were generally found together. Naturally that is.

[auraelya]

I haven't heard Dr. Berg talking about tocopherols, only about tocotrienols, which is the vit. E of the 21st C! Verrry verrry healthy! For the heart, lungs, even thyroid. However, you can NOT mix tocopherols with tocotrienols! Never ever! The last ARE very expensive, the former? a handful of walnuts will solve the problem! The tocotrienols should be consumed after at least 6 hours distance from tocopherols!

[Yeswithasmile in reply to auraelya]

Coconut oil? Apparently.

[auraelya in reply to Yeswithasmile]

No! Vegetable oils provide the best sources of these vitamin E forms, particularly palm oil and rice bran oil contain higher amounts of tocotrienols. Other sources of tocotrienols include grape fruit seed oil, oats, hazelnuts, maize, olive oil, buckthorn berry, rye, flax seed oil, poppy seed oil and sunflower oil!