hi tbforever,
About the human study mentioned in CCS's post, it used Carotech's tocotrienol ingredient from crude palm oil source.
Here is a summary of that information:
Products containing Tocomin® or Tocomin®SupraBio™ available at:
i) LIFE EXTENSION FOUNDATION - Super Absorbale...
The manufacturer of Tocomin SupraBio is Carotech (http://www.carotech.net).
There are a number of stories about tocotrienols on this website and on one of the pdfs, they actually showed a before & after picture of their hair growth study subject. You can download this story on their homepage...
I was googling and came across this product - Ageless. It contains 50mg tocotrienols - they acutally show pictures before and after.
http://www.hovidpure.com/article05_hair_growth.html
I suppose it is all right if you are taking it with milk shakes...it doesn't need to be solid food....just need some form of oily stuff taken together..
It does make a difference in terms of its oral absorption if tocotrienol is taken with food. Tocotrienol, like any other fat soluble vitamins, need to be processed in the stomach before it can be absorbed into the blood system. The presence of food will ease the processing & improve its...
Here's the link for the study used for the patent application
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7211274.html
It did mentioned under the section "Study Design" that capsules containing a mixture of about 50 mg of tocotrienols were taken twice daily after food. So, I guess you can calculate the...