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What If There Was a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease and No One Knew?

Recent research on Alzheimer’s has begun to look at ketogenic diet and its potential benefits. Ketones are high energy fuel that nourish the brain. Our body can produce ketones from stored fat while fasting or in starvation, but they can also be produced by converting medium chain fatty acids in certain foods. Coconut oil is nature’s richest source of these medium chain triglycerides (MCTs). The high-fat ketonic diet has been used for years for certain forms of childhood epilepsy, and the diet’s use is now turning to Alzheimer’s and other diseases as well.

As coconut oil’s use becomes more accepted and widespread, we expect to see more testimonies in relation to diseases like Alzheimer’s. One of the most widely published reports recently was from Dr. Mary Newport as reported by the St. Petersburg Times on October 29, 2008. Dr. Newport’s husband had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s and was watching her husband quickly deteriorate. After using drugs that slowed down the effects of Alzheimer’s, she looked into clinical drug trials and found one based on MCTs that not only slowed the progression of Alzheimer’s, but offered improvement. Not being able to get her husband into one of these trials, she begun to give him Virgin Coconut Oil, and saw incredible improvement in his condition.

The coconut oil he’d ingested seemed to “lift the fog.” He begun to take Virgin Coconut Oil every day, and by the fifth day, there was a tremendous improvement. “He would face the day bubbly, more like his old self,” his wife said. More than five months later, his tremors have subsided, the visual disturbances that prevented him from reading have disappeared, and he has become more social and interested in those around him.

While coconut oil is certainly “not” a cure all for diseases like this , coconut oil does offer hope as nature’s most abundant source of MCTs and easily convertible fuel source for ketones. People suffering from Alzheimer’s should immediately start avoiding polyunsaturated forms of oil such as soy and corn oils. Especially if they are hydrogenated and in the form of trans fatty acids, and a good quality Virgin Coconut Oil should be added to the diet. Further studies are needed, and further investigation may indeed find a strong correlation between diseases such Alzheimer’s and the rise of industrial vegetable oils after WW II. Alzheimer’s is not a common disease in tropical cultures where coconut oil and saturated fats are traditionally consumed.

You can read Dr. Newport’s entire case study here: http://coconutoil.com/AlzheimersDiseaseDrMaryNewport.pdf

References
1. 1996 Raymond Peat Newsletter, Eugene, OR – http://www.coconutoil.com/ray_peat_coconutoil.htm
2. Doctor says an oil lessened Alzheimer’s effects on her husband, St. Petersburg Times, October 29, 2008

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