Tocotrienols: Vitamin E’s Other Half

Vitamin E is just vitamin E, right? Not exactly.

Most of us know vitamin E as “alpha tocopherol” (whether we realize it or not). However, in addition to alpha, there are beta, delta, and gamma tocopherols as well as alpha, beta, delta, and gamma tocotrienols.

Of the eight forms of vitamin E, the tocotrienols receive considerably less attention than the tocopherols. Investigation into tocotrienols’ benefits and properties still only constitutes a small percentage of the research involving vitamin E.¹

Despite the fact that alpha tocopherol may be the dominant form of vitamin E in the plasma,² the essentiality of the tocotrienols cannot be …read more