Just one dose of coconut oil can tremendously boost brain function and cognitive performance

Just one dose of coconut oil can tremendously boost brain function and cognitive performance


(NaturalNews) It's amazing how coconut oil has recently been
acknowledged for the healthy oil that it is after having been vilified
for decades as a heart attack oil. Now it's been discovered to boost
even brain health.

Defaming coconut oil saturated fat was part of
the 1950s creation of low and no fat foods, margarine, and hydrogenated
trans-fatty cooking and salad oils, which have recently been proven as
actually detrimental to overall health.

The different types of triglycerides in fats

High
triglyceride blood readings are red flags for obesity, diabetes, and
heart health issues. Most dietary fats contain long chain triglycerides
(LCT), which are not easily metabolized and can be stored as fatty
deposits in one's body.

Long chain triglycerides contain chains
with 14 to 18 carbon atoms. But coconut oil contains medium chain
triglycerides (MCT) with shorter chains of 5 to 12 carbon atoms, which
are easily metabolized by the liver to produce ketone bodies that can
replace glucose as metabolic fuel.

As we age, the brain's ability
to metabolize glucose for energy wanes, especially for those who have a
metabolic disorder or insulin resistance. But MCT-created ketones can
be used as cellular fuel in the brain when glucose is not available.

Study: Coconut oil improves cognitive ability

As far back as 2004, a study published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging
determined that coconut oil MCTs improved cognitive function among
older folks with memory problems and even Alzheimer's disease.

They took 20 subjects and randomly fed them coconut
oil or placebos on different days. Some of the Alzheimer's group
demonstrated improved scoring on a special Alzheimer's cognitive rating
scale, and all of them demonstrated better paragraph recall shortly after taking each dose of coconut oil.

This wasn't a long term study. They got immediate positive cognitive and memory results from single doses of coconut oil compared to placebos.

So
why wasn't this publicized by the mainstream media (MSM) and reported
to medical practitioners everywhere? Maybe because Big Pharma was trying
to synthesize and patent a ketone body producing pharmaceutical for the
increasing Alzheimer's disease market.

A dramatic true story confirming coconut oil's efficacy

Around
2009-10, MD Mary Newport's husband had deteriorated from Alzheimer's so
badly he couldn't draw a simple illustration of a clock or perform
daily functions without being micromanaged.

Since the Alzheimer's
drug developed in 2004 was not effective, Dr. Newport tried to get him
into a trial for a new Alzheimer's drug. But he was so bad off he didn't
qualify.

After discovering that this new drug was a synthetic
version of MCTs for creating ketone bodies and improving brain function,
she researched and realized that palm and coconut oils also contained
MCTs.

After feeding her husband coconut oil, he started making a remarkable comeback from almost total dementia to being able to start and finish tasks and remember people and events.

Dr.
Newport observed that only two doses spaced eight hours apart were
sufficient, while the pharmaceutical version required doses every three
hours (http://www.naturalnews.com/030373_coconut_oil_Alzheimers_disease.html)

If Mary would have enrolled her husband into that 2009-10 Alzheimer's drug trial, she could have lost him completely.

The drug trial at that time was halted early because of nine deaths among those taking higher doses(http://www.naturalnews.com/028753_Alzheimers_drug_trials.html).

Newport's
success without side effects places coconut oil as the dementia food
medicine of choice over expensive and harmful pharmaceuticals. Because
they went viral on the internet with their experience, several others
experiencing Alzheimer's or memory problems have benefited from coconut
oil.

Source:-
http://www.naturalnews.com/039811_coconut_Alzheimers_dementia.html