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This week’s podcast episode features Dr. Barrie Tan – a world renowned expert in the chemical and biochemical world, known for his discovery of the most potent form of Vitamin E, tocotrienol!

A little background on Vitamin E: Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin (absorbed with dietary fats and stored in fatty tissue and the liver) and is made up of 8 related molecules, collectively grouped together as Vitamin E. The mechanism of Vitamin E acts as an important antioxidant to help protect our cells from free-radical damage. As many forms of Vitamin E exist, our focus today is tocotrienol, and shouldn’t be confused with alpha-tocopherol, the most common form of Vitamin E you see on the back of most vitamin bottles.

Because tocotrienols are a (fairly) recent scientific discovery, prior studies for Vitamin E supplementation used alpha-tocopherol- which turned out to have some unfortunate downsides for cardiac and cancer research. However, the discovery of pure tocotrienol from annatto plants have continuously made an impact on Vitamin E and antioxidant research. Some health benefits of supplementing with tocotrienol are reduction of fat in the liver as well as overall reduction in inflammatory biomarkers, as well as improvement of bone health, cardiovascular health, insulin sensitivity, brain health, and so much more!

Bottom line: the type of Vitamin E you are supplementing with matters! It’s nearly impossible to get adequate antioxidant protection from diet alone.

Watch our interview here!

Interested in learning more about Vitamin E? Dr. Tan has so graciously offered us a link to his free e-book! You can also head over to Dr. Barrie’s website to check out his research with annatto and tocotrienols! 

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This week’s guest is Dr. Barrie Tan, Ph.D. Barrie is an expert on Vitamin E, K, COQ-10, and a variety of others. Barrie earned his PhD in Chemistry / Biochemistry, spent several years as a professor at UMass, Amherst. He has launched successful nutritional businesses, and owns an array of patents and intellectual property.

Barrie was an interesting enthusiastic guest, showing us the Annatto plant where they source their tocotrienol and has written a book - “The Truth About Vitamin E: The Secret to Thriving with Annatto Tocotrienols”. You’ll enjoy hearing his story, his adventures, and his passion to help people with chronic disease.

Be sure to check out his websites - barrietan.com and AmericanRiverNutrition.com .

This week we chat with Dr. Barrie Tan, the world's foremost expert on vitamin E. He regales us with the miraculous story of how he discovered the most potent form of vitamin E in the annatto plant, and educates us on its endless health benefits.

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Dr. Barrie Tan is hailed as the world’s foremost expert on vitamin E, credited with discovering tocotrienol in three major natural sources: Palm, Rice, and Annatto. A scientist first and foremost, Dr. Tan earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry/Biochemistry from the University of Otago, New Zealand.   He then spent several years as a professor at UMass. Today, his research focuses on lipid-soluble nutrients that reduce and slow chronic conditions.

We all know the popularity of vitamin E and it's benefits as an antioxidant.  However, Dr. Tan has found Annatto Tocotrienol to be much more powerful.  Firstly, Tocotrienols can help with inflammation which is at the root of cancer but other illnesses as well including lung infections.  Dr. Tan has conducted many clinical trials using Tocotrienol and has had much success with many chronic diseases including cancer, fatty liver, diabetes.

To learn even more listeners of this podcast will be able to download a FREE copy of Dr. Tan's book, The Truth about Vitamin E: The Secret to Thriving with Annatto Tocotrienols, off his website using the code "Dr V". His website is: www.barrietan.com

It’s time for another Q&A! In today’s episode, JJ answers a listener’s question wanting to know how you protect yourself if you have a fatty liver condition, and you’re already living a good lifestyle. JJ explains exactly what fatty liver is, how it affects the body, and what you can remove, as well as what you can supplement with to help reduce the risk of fatty liver. Listen in today for this information-packed podcast!

 

Episode Play-By-Play

[0:55] One of JJ’s listeners wanted to know how you protect yourself if you have a fatty liver condition, and you’re already living a good lifestyle.

[1:00] What is fatty liver?

[2:00] This is one of the worst contributors to fatty liver disease.

[3:00] Here’s one way to catch fatty liver early

[3:20] Foods that affect the likelihood of getting or contributing to fatty liver

[4:10] Types of medications that might contribute to higher risk of fatty liver

[4:30] Supplements that can help lower the risk of fatty liver

 

 

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