Higher Grounds Tocotrienol - 360 GM

$24.95

The Tocotriene Story
For many years, scientists have known that rice bran was a storehouse of precious but delicate super nutrients.

Some of these super nutrients, such as the tocotrienols have recently been shown to have 6,000 times greater antioxidant activity than Vitamin E.

Rice bran is a veritable storehouse of tocotrienols. Unfortunately, these precious super nutrients are destroyed by cooking. They can be unlocked by mechanically separating the rice bran. However, once separated, the rice bran super nutrients are destroyed within hours by the enzyme lipase, indigenous to the bran.

The answer is Tocotriene Complex.
Tocotriene Complex utilizes a newly developed proprietary process that stabilizes the delicate precious super nutrients of rice bran and exports them, utilizing stabilized rice protein, the ideal carrier, to transport the precious rice bran cargo into the blood.

After carefully studying and clinically testing this breakthrough stabilized rice bran, we found the nutrients were richest and most stable in the least processed live bran. Therefore, Tocotriene Complex delivers the stabilized rice bran in a crunchy, cereal-like form. When wet, this bran rapidly softens and is easily absorbed.

Stabilized rice protein, on the other hand, is not readily subject to oxidation like the delicate rice bran, so it has been finely ground for rapid absorption and high bio-availability to efficiently transport the rice bran nutrients into the blood.

Tocotriene Complex is the first dietary supplement exclusively with FOS (fructooligosaccharides) made from chicory, not table sugar with its toxic 2-4-T contaminants. Our FOS delivers a great sweet taste and yet it is a sugar only ""good"" or beneficial bacteria can eat. Studies show just 1 gram daily for 4 weeks can increase the good colon bacteria 5-fold. Yet Tocotriene Complex contains 2 grams of FOS per serving. FOS is the perfect compliment to stabilized rice bran and stabilized rice protein: It delivers great taste without triggering fermentation or other destructive enzymatic processes.

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