{"id":57,"date":"2011-05-19T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/truebeauty\/?p=57"},"modified":"2011-05-19T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:24:30","slug":"vitamin-e-tocotrienols-enhance-healthy-looking-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/truebeauty\/2011\/05\/vitamin-e-tocotrienols-enhance-healthy-looking-hair.html","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin E Tocotrienols Enhance Healthy\u2013Looking Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us, healthy-looking hair is an important part of our appearance.\u00a0 It can brighten our outlook and make us feel more confident.\u00a0 However, maintaining a healthy appearance to our hair can seem like an impossible and never-ending task, especially as we get older.\u00a0 There are many reasons for poor hair health and many of them are beyond our control; however, there are some things we can do to fight poor-looking hair.\u00a0 A number of research studies have suggested that poor hair appearance might be related to poor nutrition and oxidative stress.\u00a0 Because of this, various researchers have explored the possible benefits of nutritional antioxidants for enhancing hair health.<\/p>\n<p>One such study recently reported that boosting your daily intake of tocotrienols might boost your hair appearance.\u00a0 Tocotrienols are part of the vitamin E family.\u00a0 Vitamin E is actually not a single component, but instead is a mixture of 3 tocopherols and 3 tocotrienols.\u00a0 While the tocotrienols are less well known, it has been reported that they are actually better antioxidants than the vitamin E tocopherols.<\/p>\n<p>In this new research study, investigators asked 38 volunteers (18 \u2013 60 years of age) to take either a placebo pill or a 100 mg of tocotrienols daily.\u00a0 The tocotrienols were a mixture of all three forms, alpha (30.8%), delta (12.8%), and gamma (56.4%).\u00a0 Changes in hair appearance were measured in both groups after 4 and 8 months.\u00a0 While no changes in hair appearance were observed after 4 or 8 months in the control group taking the placebo capsule, individuals taking 100 mg tocotrienols daily showed a 15% improvement in hair appearance on average after 4 months and a 35% improvement in hair appearance on average after 8 months.\u00a0 Additionally, 19 of the 20 volunteers taking tocotrienols saw improvements in their hair health with 1 volunteer obtaining less than a 10% improvement, 9 volunteers seeing a 10-25% improvement, 1 volunteer obtaining a 25-50% improvement, and 8 volunteers seeing more than a 50% improvement.\u00a0 Therefore, 40% of the volunteers saw more than a 50% improvement in healthy-looking hair.<\/p>\n<p>These results clearly support the idea that dietary changes can support healthier-looking hair.\u00a0 In this case, vitamin E tocotrienols were shown to improve hair appearance.\u00a0 However, since it is thought that the vitamin E tocotrienols support healthier-looking hair due to their antioxidant properties, it is possible that other antioxidants might also be beneficial if you are looking to enhance your hair appearance.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Remember that our true beauty starts inside!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please \u201c<strong>LIKE<\/strong>\u201d the Facebook\u00ae button and post a Comment.<\/p>\n<p>Healthy Regards,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/truebeauty\/files\/2011\/04\/AaronSignatureSma.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/238\/2011\/04\/AaronSignatureSma-300x141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Tabor, MD<br \/>\nDiet, Anti-Aging, and Nutritional Cosmetic Expert<br \/>\nAuthor of Dr. Tabor\u2019s Diet and FIGHT NOW: Eat &amp; Live Proactively Against Breast Cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us, healthy-looking hair is an important part of our appearance.\u00a0 It can brighten our outlook and make us feel more confident.\u00a0 However, maintaining a healthy appearance to our hair can seem like an impossible and never-ending task, especially as we get older.\u00a0 There are many reasons for poor hair health and many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[44,9,45,43,32,42,41],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-aging","category-beauty-tips","category-diet-tips","tag-antioxidant","tag-beauty","tag-beauty-from-within","tag-hair","tag-nutricosmetics","tag-tocotrienols","tag-vitamin-e"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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