Coconut Oil
I was reading this on diabetes.co.uk today and it really got me interested:
by AliB on August 31st, 2009, 3:33 pm
I am ploughing through Bruce Fife’s ‘Coconut Cures’ on Google Books (and will probably buy it). It is fascinating.
I had already been fascinated by what I have been reading about it elsewhere, but one thing I picked up on in the book is that coconut oil can help vitamins and minerals in food become much more ‘bioavailable’ to the body. It’s apparently like taking a multivitamin supplement without taking a multivitamin supplement! It helps the body use the nutrients much more efficiently.
It also provides an energy boost – not like the kick from caffeine, more subtle than that, but enough that taking it at night can keep you awake! It is a longer lasting boost too.
It is often added to baby formulas as the medium chain triglycerides (MCT’s) or fatty acids (MCFA’s) in it are very similar to those in human breast milk. It cites an experience from a woman whose 9th (!) baby was quite sickly. Her naturopath suggested she take coconut oil and within 2 months her baby had gained 3 pounds and was thriving. It can boost milk quality by up to 18% apparently. The naturopath felt that each successive pregnancy had diminished the quality of her milk and the baby just wasn’t getting enough MCFA’s to encourage its growth and nutrient absorption.
The benefits of it as a digestive aid are also well-documented. It is a good fat for digestive support and is beneficial particularly for those with gall-bladder and other fat digestion issues as it doesn’t need very much in the way of bile for its digestion. By the time it leaves the stomach it has already changed into the lipids that the body can use for energy. Because the body needs fats in order to function properly, those on a reduced fat diet can suffer as a result of not having enough, especially with general malnutrition.
It is a great all-round healer too, both internally and externally. It has done wonders for my digestion and back in June I badly burnt my left hand. I kept it cool and moist and kept slathering it with coconut oil. Within just over a week it was healed enough for me to take the dressing off and now two months later, you wouldn’t know. Everyone who saw it as it was couldn’t believe how fast and well it healed. And I am Diabetic…….!
An on top of all that – it can aid weight loss for those that need it because it encourages more efficient fat-burning.
Tomorrow I am off to stock up on supplies……………
Re: Coconut Oil
Hi Jean
Bless you for the kind words! And yes we use coconut oil all the time, wonderful for cooking as it’s so stable. Just have to get used to things tasting of coconut! So I tend to use it for Indian foods mostly, bacon and eggs are very strange! Use tins and tins of coconut cream too, wonderful addition to veggies, cauli is especially good cooked in it, no water of course.
The MCT (medium chain triglyceride) oil we use for candida is an extract from coconut oil, body builders use it. It works like a carb, goes straight into the portal vein to the liver, does not need chylomicrons to transport it around in the lymph first.
chylomicron |ˌkīlōˈmīˌkrän|
noun Physiology
a droplet of fat present in the blood or lymph after absorption from the small intestine.
It’s never converted into fat, goes to the cells where it’s used for energy. Another name for it is capric/caprylic triglycerides, it’s the caprylic part which kills candida. So coconut oil also has caprylic acid, but much less than the MCT oil. But eating it often would help suppress candida. I see the girl used it for a burn, well of course progesterone is the best for burns!! Have attached info on the MCT oil for you, plus the pamphlet which the manufacturers of the MCT oil give out. Plus a bit of info on coconut oil and some sites.
Hope this helps!
So, Wray really likes it and it sounds to be a very good product. Off to Amazon to see what they have:
This looks a very good book. I read the excerpt on Google books and have ordered it. I have also ordered so coconut oil and a coconut water drink from coconutty.co.uk. The oil and the drinks were here at 9.30AM and I have had my first serving of the oil. I just scooped it up onto a spoon from the container and ate it. It was not unpleasant tasting at all. I have a couple of packs of the water in the fridge to try out later. I am particularly interested in the fat burning angle with this. My diet seems to be stuck at the moment. I am also still waiting for my Action Heart referral to be sorted out. They are sorting out an exercise program for me. My Doctor referred me in May, I went for my initial appointment in early August and here we are in September still waiting for them to tell me when I can start. The NHS is slooooooowwwwwwww.
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