Italian Annurca apple
Malus pumila Mill. cv. Annurca
Why this matters
Hair takes on everyday wear and tear, day after day. Sunlight, city air, the heat of styling tools, a high-stress week — these don't show up in the mirror at once, but they build up quietly in the feel and outline of your hair.
Mixed tocotrienols, extracted from the palm fruit, are another branch of the vitamin E family. They aren't the front-line active in this formula, but in the background they go quietly about their own work.
Among HairBooster™'s five core botanicals, its place is not at the front line. But it has its own coordinates — a placebo-controlled study published in 2010, a human trial measuring hair count directly³.
Another vitamin E from the palm fruit
Vitamin E is not a single substance, but a family of eight isomers — four tocopherols, four tocotrienols — differing in the saturation of the side chain. What's common in everyday diet is mostly α-tocopherol.
Tocotrienols are far rarer, found mainly in the flesh of the palm fruit, rice bran, and oats. What this formula selects is the tocotrienol fraction of the palm fruit — a research record extracted from the fresh mesocarp of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.), fractionated and concentrated, keeping γ-tocotrienol as the dominant isomer.
This raw material belongs to the same research-grade standard as the material used in Beoy 2010 — a palm-source, tocotrienol-dominant vitamin E concentrate.
The research data
On this active, the human data citable today centers on a single study — Beoy 2010 (Trop Life Sci Res)³ — 38 participants, eight consecutive months, 100 mg per day, against a placebo group.
At the study's 4-month point, the active group's hair count was +15.2% and the placebo group +0.0%; at the 8-month point, the active group was +34.5% and the placebo group -0.1%. Read the 4-month number first, then the 8-month — the gap between the two timepoints is where this study most deserves a pause.
