10 Jul 2018 --- Supplementation with palm tocotrienol improves behavioral and cognitive abilities in transgenic – genetically modified – Alzheimer’s mice, a joint study conducted by the National University of Malaysia and Shiga University of Medical Science, Japan has found. Tocotrienol has garnered wide attention as a potential therapeutic agent against neurodegenerative disease due to its potent antioxidant and neuroprotective properties, the study explains, but this is the “first” study to evaluate the effect of tocotrienol-rich fraction (TRF) – consisting of a mixture of vitamin E analogs – of palm oil on behavior and cognitive functions in Alzheimer’s mice.
