The title doesn't correspond to the article, it seems to reduce White matter lesions as a preventative rather than as a post stroke therapy. Tocotrienols are a specialized form of vitamin E, you won't get them in standard drug store vitamins. No self-medication, that what your doctors are paid for.
I wrote about this a year and a half ago like this;
So here goes:
What are they? A natural component of Vitamin E
that is found in barley, rice bran and palm oil products. Your standard
vitamin E supplements only contain the tocopherols.
This report
suggests that a level of this vitamin E can protect the brain after a
stroke. But it takes about eight to 10 weeks of supplementation to build
up to an adequate level in your system. For most Asians having a rice
diet they would naturally have this.
http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/11/11/palm-tocotrienols-can-prevent-brain-cell-death-after-stroke/
Researchers led by Professor Yuen Kah Hay of Universiti Sains
Malaysia (USM) recently found that palm tocotrienols can protect brain
cells in the event of a stroke.
“This breakthrough research
suggests that taking 200mg of palm Researchers led by Professor Yuen Kah Hay of Universiti Sains
Malaysia (USM) recently found that palm tocotrienols can protect brain
cells in the event of a stroke.
“This breakthrough research
suggests that taking 200mg of palm tocotrienols twice daily as a
preventative can prevent brain cells from dying in the event of a
stroke, which may translate to disability or survival benefits to the
patients,” Professor Yuen said during a talk at a hotel here recently.
And
considering stroke is the third biggest killer in Malaysia after heart
disease and cancer, palm tocotrienols may bring benefits to the millions
affected by this condition.
Professor Yuen and his team commenced
the clinical trial after promising results were obtained in an American
study which elucidated palm tocotrienols to be involved in the cell
death signaling pathway to prevent neuronal cell death.
The
researchers in America published their result after experimenting on
genetically modified mice that are prone to stroke, as well as on
canines, showing palm tocotrienols could minimize neuronal cell damage.
He
said that 200 human volunteers with white matter lesions (WML), which
are oxygen-starved brain cells, were recruited in the study led by him.
The placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind clinical trial, which commenced in January, 2008, continued for two years.
At
the end of the first year, the researchers found those taking 200mg of
palm tocotrienols orally twice a day showed small increase in the WML
volume, whereas those in the placebo group showed seven times more
increase in WML volume.
“The placebo group continued to show
further increases in the volume of lesions in the second year. Those on
palm tocotrienols, however, showed a decrease.”
“The evidence we
have now suggests that if people take it as a neuroprotective
supplement, it can prevent brain cells from dying in the event of a
stroke, and also stimulate the reconstruction of blood vessels after,”
he said.
The encouraging results of the neuroprotective agent –
palm tocotrienols, have led the Performance Management and Delivery Unit
(PEMANDU) to fund a similar trial on diabetic patients, he said.
Meanwhile, USM researcher, Dr Enrico Magosso spoke on fatty liver and how this was a lifestyle disease.
“It
is a progressive disease and affects between 10 percent and 30 percent
of the world population. It is expected to become a major reason for
transplant in the US, and patients with fatty liver are more likely to
die from stroke,” he said.
He mentioned that in his study, he has found that tocotrienols has been effective in the prevention treatment of fatty liver.
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Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.
What this blog is for:
My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.
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