What makes this vitamin E supplement so expensive, simply because its from wheat germ oil?
There are basically no companies producing vitamin E from wheat germ any more. Soy is so cheap and so heavily subsidized everywhere that pretty much all commercially available vitamin E is sourced from soy. So, the only vendor that we found willing to produce this vitamin E was in Europe and their product is not cheap. WHen you factor in shipping costs and duty tax, the price just the raw material becomes pretty significant.
Also, the vitamin E available on the market has had other valuable ingredients removed, so it is just tocopherols. Peat conjectured in one of his articles that the great results using vitamin E before 1950s were maybe due to some "impurities" that were present in the wheat germ. TocoVit contains quite a bit of squalene, lanosterol and other chemicals that can actually serve as steroid precursors and some of them have steroid effects of their own. Most people using it so far reported immediate increase in temps and pulse, which does not seem to happen with other products. Look here for more info:
Experimenting With TocoVit's Effect On Body Temperature