Ep84 Tocotrienols - has Vitamin E been Completely Misunderstood?
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
What an engaging and passionate scientist - and he's a proper gentleman to boot! I had a great time chatting to Dr. Barrie Tan late last year, on the fascinating science behind Vitamin E. He has dedicated decades of his life to researching it, and it shows. I for one did not realize that the nutritional orthodoxy had screwed up in properly understanding how it works in the physiology (it's not just "cholesterol" that they got badly wrong).
Vitamin E actually has many forms - take the wrong ones and it can backfire on you. Focus on the right ones, and will be on your way to enhanced health (along with diet and exercise of course).
Most of all enjoy our chat - I know that I certainly did!
NOTE: My extensive research and interviewing / video/sound editing and much more does require support - please consider helping if you can at my Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/IvorCummins
For monthly donation to support me directly, or one-off payment - simply use the following link: https://tinyurl.com/IvorCummins
For Dr. Barrie Tan's FREE book "The Truth About Vitamin E", simply use the code "Xtend-life" here: https://barrietan.com/book/
Dr. Barrie Tan's White Paper Free Here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2714/9960/files/Tocotrienol_White_Paper_formatted.pdf
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. I'm your host, Ivor Cummins. Today we have a special super |
| 0:09.2 | scientist guest. His name is Dr. Barry Tan. He's been associate professor at the University of |
| 0:15.2 | Massachusetts, holds a PhD in chemistry and biochemistry. But most notably notably he has a life's work of exploring and discovering |
| 0:24.3 | some of the really important qualities of vitamin E and its actual components because it is made up |
| 0:30.1 | of quite different components as we'll see. And they've great importance for human health. So we're |
| 0:35.7 | going to delve in and explore his journey and also all of the technical information around vitamin D or vitamin E, I should say. That's really important for our health over the long term. So great to meet you, Dr. Varie Tan here. |
| 0:51.6 | Good morning. I mean, good afternoon and great to meet you. Just a small correction. |
| 0:56.1 | I started my career as an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, and that's almost |
| 1:01.2 | 30 years ago. So I've been doing this outside the university and develop into research for a long |
| 1:07.6 | number of years. Right. And I believe you have, you know, of a company and you invest a lot of your proceeds into more exploration, more research, and you've many patents around the technology we're going to talk about. |
| 1:20.6 | Yes, that is correct. I know we are different from the ocean apart in this interview here and even further oceans |
| 1:31.0 | apart. |
| 1:32.0 | I got my PhD in New Zealand at the University of Otago. |
| 1:36.0 | There's even further apart still. |
| 1:38.7 | So right now we are a little bit closer to you. |
| 1:41.2 | So I'm looking forward to this interview. |
| 1:43.8 | Actually, that's a coincidence, |
| 1:44.9 | Barry. I was in New Zealand myself just a few weeks ago, visiting Extend Life and Warren Matthews |
| 1:50.8 | there, who runs a world-class manufacturing facility for health products. So I guess no matter where |
| 1:57.0 | we are in the world, though, the science, the evidence and the data remains data remains the same right as far as human health is concerned vitamin would work |
| 2:04.8 | the same so we're looking forward to this excellent Barry well we might start |
| 2:10.4 | off actually with a 30,000 foot type view of vitamin E and I was fascinated only a |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ivor cummins, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of ivor cummins and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.