27/09/05 (NSTP) - The first evidence that palm tocotrienol, an extractfrom palm oil, may protect against stroke injury of the brain was revealedtoday.

Vitamin E researcher Prof Chandan K. Sen told the International Palm OilCongress that the health benefits of palm tocotrienol dietary supplementwas a new discovery and linked the supplement to more diverse uses.

Sen’s latest research showed that even short-term dietary intake of palmtocotrienol was readily absorbed by major organs.

In the past, other forms of dietary tocotrienol did not manage to reachthe major organs and dampened research in tocotrienol as a dietarysupplement, he said in a statement released today at the congress. VitaminE is a family of related compounds known as tocopherols and tocotrienols.