http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24150106
There have been a number of dramatic anecdotal accounts about coconut oil and alzheimers but this is the first clinical study (favorable) that I am aware of.
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New Study On Alzheimers And Coconut Oil
by metatron 9 Replies latest jw friends
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Oh, and there's a new non-drug treatment for chronic constipation that's very promising (and funny).
'Is that your phone set on vibrate? Hey, where you going in such a hurry?'
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never a jw
Bogus. I consume large amounts of coconut oil a day and still don't remember where I left my cell phone or the names of half of my customers. Tastes great with rice bread though.
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WTWizard
Coconut oil is better than that awful stuff they call "oil". Most vegetable oil comes from soy (genetically modified, usually) that contains chemicals (phyto-estrogens) that can tamper with your metabolism. Canola oil is even worse--I call it "rape oil". The fatty acids within these go bad easily, and polymerize at ordinary room temperature. I have seen what happens when you spill small quantities of this oil onto a supermarket shelf, and it has a few days to harden. Do you really want that crap in your arteries?
As bad is that plastic that is humorously called shortening. Margarine is also a plastic. These plastics are designed with a melting point similar to lard, tallow, and butter. However, they get into your body and clog your arteries. Invariably, they blame cholesterol and put you on statin drugs. They also order you, under threat of heart disease, to stop eating butter, lard, and tallow (beef fat)--and coconut oil.
Additionally, there are articles still available online (while Internet II is still in developmental stages) that expose the saturated fats in coconut oil. Most of these fatty acids are "medium chain" fatty acids. Technically acetic and formic acids are saturated fats--the shortest chains. Coconut oil contains many of the shorter and medium chains, from capric acid to lauric acid (the majority of it is lauric), up to palmitic acid. Stearic acid comprises much of lard and tallow (and butter). These acids, particularly lauric acid, assist the immune system and may stimulate the thyroid. It might also help reduce one of the causes of Alzheimers disease--namely poor circulation. These fatty acids are used more for energy than stored, so it is harder to gain weight using medium chain fats (coconut oil) than with longer chains (or worse, the chemically unstable polyunsaturated fats found in vegetable oils).
Also, medium chain fatty acids do not clog your arteries as the lamestream Rockefeller system has you believe (so they can prescribe more drugs, make you sicker and poorer, and support their filthy angel buddies). It is the longer fatty acids, with melting points above body temperature, that can get into your arteries and cause problems. Behenic, lignoceric, and cerotic acids all have melting points above 37 C. Lauric acid melts at 25 C, which is well within the safe range. Thus, there is no way lauric acid can clog your arteries. True, polyunsaturated fats melt at temperatures below 37. However, they easily polymerize at temperatures below 37, and these polymers melt well above 37. Shortening and margarine already have this polymerization started. Lauric acid is extremely resistant to polymerization. Even the longer behenic, lignoceric, and cerotic acids resist polymerization and are therefore safer than soy (or rape, which also contains toxins that further impede metabolism).
No, coconut oil is not going to cure you if you already have Alzheimers, particularly if it is caused by too much aspartame and/or monosodium glutamate (you need to cut way back on or eliminate these poisons before they can ruin your brain). No, lauric acid is not going to cure cancer or magically unclog your arteries. No, coconut oil is not going to drive those filthy angels out of your life (it is not toxic to those things, either). But, it helps your body deal with infection, and it may help improve circulation (may is the key word, since if there is too much polymerized fatty acid in your blood stream, even lauric acid cannot dissolve those clogs).
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LisaRose
I hope it's true, I started adding coconut oil to my diet a year ago. My cholesterol dropped dramatically, but I don't know if it's that or the fact I also went gluten free, but I am still doing both.
Here's a recipe for gluten free brownies using coconut oil. My husband doesn't care about coconut oil or gluten free, he just likes them because they are delicious. They are more like a flourless chocolate cake than a brownie, but I sometimes use cocoa instead of the chocolate, it makes it more brownie like and is a bit cheaper. Otherwise I use Trader Joe's pound plus dark chocolate.
http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/2006/01/dark-chocolate-brownies.html
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zebagain
Old farming friend told me that Canola is toxic to humans. It is not included in pig feed as it causes pigs to abort. Anecdotal evidence suggests same in humans.
It is very good on axe, shovel, chisel and hammer handles.
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JeffT
What is described in that abstract is not a clinical study.
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metatron
Correctly, it is a pilot study.
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cantleave
You can not necessarily extrapolate in-vitro studies to in-vivo scenarios. But it is an interesting abstract of a pilot study.
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metatron
Yup, in-vitro ain't in-vivo.
However, we now have some impressive anecdotal claims coupled together with a pilot study that offers a rationale or demonstration of how this stuff works.
At less than $20 a tub at BJ's or Costco, that makes it a cheap 'cut and try'. There was a stunning observation about dementia (not Alzheimers) in regard to an anti-inflammatory (Embrel?) about a year ago.
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