MINNEAPOLIS–You probably know about the grey material of your brain. But do you know that 50% of your brain consists of white material? The good white material of brain will influence how good you learn and study. But this is one part of brain which is always hit by stroke.

Media Relation Inc. centered in United States reported on Tuesday (29/4/2014) reported, clinical study in men for two year which was published in American

Heart Association, Stroke  journal said, tocotrienol vitamin E from Malaysian palm oil could support the white material by weakening the development of white material. This was the first study which proved the benefits of tocotrienol neuralin mankind.

"This is very significant,” member of research team,Kalyana Sundram, PhD said.He thought, there was much compound to show the neural effects of stroke in animal. But the researchers were fail to find it in mankind. This might happen for man’s brain has whiter material (about 50%) than rat’s which is 10%.

For information, white material lesion is the abnormal area in the brain which can be detected by MRI. It is always found in the older age, it relates to the ateroskleros i in small blood vessel of the brain, hypertension and diabetes mellitus. It it gets worse, WMLs could make kognitif and demensia disturbances

"It has been reported, the injury in white material of brain becomes the main cause of functional defect in serebrovascular disease," a researcher, Prof Yuen Kah Hay, PhD said.

This study also showed having tocotrienol in the palm oil will be good for our brain, especially for those who are risky to get stroke. (T3)