The video given below shows a neonate doctor who has been
battling her husband’s severe Alzheimer’s with coconut oil. The doctor says Alzheimer’s
seems to be a type of diabetes of the brain.
Glucose is not being taken up by the brain so the cells die. However,
there is the alternative fuel of ketones that cells easily accept. Triglycerides in the coconut oil break down
into these.
They use the “clock test” to determine the progress of the
patient. Two weeks after adding coconut
oil to his diet the patients clock drawing dramatically improved and kept on
improving weeks after that. He started conversing more and became more active.
Oxford has created a highly potent form of ketones yet it is
expensive to make and not profitable and therefore not many are interested. I
would like to have seen a study done with just the ketones to see if it has the
same effects as the coconut oil.
Coconut oil is a natural antibiotic and antiviral. In the
article they explain that the oil could even be used for Parkinson's disease,
ALS , epilepsy, dementia, even schizophrenia and autism. This sounds like one
of those “cure alls” we want to stay away from but it at least has
I found this article really interesting and inspiring, I love the idea of using natural remedies to assist in any kind of treatment because of their considerably lower side effects. I think that it is an excellent supplement that can easily be added to the diet of any drug regiment prescribed to someone with Alzheimers. This kind of research also brings up the idea of whether or not something like coconut oil can be used as a preventive measure for the development of Alzheimers all together. Perhaps integrating it into your daily diet after a certain age can prevent all kinds dementia from occurring as they all involve the death/dysfunction of brain tissue
ReplyDeleteVery true! Unlike synthetically made drugs natural remedies do seem to have much less side effects if any. Of course someone can go to the extreme with ANYTHING and create side effects but aside from that I think you are entirely correct.
DeleteI find this article very inspirational too and seeing that I am a proponent of natural remedies, I am someone that would invest in adding coconut to my daily diet if it meant decreasing my symptoms or chances of developing it. The only thing that I must still be skeptical about, is its efficacy and why there are not more people out there trying this or why it's not blowing up over the media. Of course the idea has been around for a long time, but why is this such a slow process if it seems to be much more advantageous than deleterious?
DeleteI also found this video amazing! I wondered though, how far different are raspberry ketones from the ketones being produced by Coconut oil? I found this study on the "Anti-obese action of raspberryketone", on http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024320505001281. The study claims that RK helps prevent obesity and activate lipid metabolism. Rodents were used To test the ketone effects on obesity. The experiment in volved: " 1) mice fed a high-fat diet including 0.5, 1, or 2% of RK for 10 weeks; 2) mice were given a high-fat diet for 6 weeks and subsequently fed the same high-fat diet containing1% RK for the next 5 weeks."
ReplyDeleteLeading to prevention of an induced high-fat-diet. RK is found to lower the elevations in body weight, including the liver and visceral adipose tissues. This is because the hepatic triacylglycerol content decreased after being fed a high-fat diet. Lastly, and I think this best correlates with your video, they witnessed lipid metabolism being increased due to the increased norepinephrine-induced lipolysis starting this casacade to burn fuel. To sum it up, RK prevented and slowed progression of obesity and fatty liver. The simply mechanism is the RK activating Lipid Metabolism by activating lipolysis via norepinephrine in white adipocytes.
I honestly think the best way to rid such a disease is to try preventative measures. Most of the research I have done so far concerning Neurodegenarte Diseases usually referred natural remedies to be the most promising. If Coconut oil has similar physiological affects as RK on the body, has there been clinical studies on this kind of ketone?
The structure of RK is similar to the structures of capsaicin and synephrine, compounds known to exert anti-obese actions and alter the lipid metabolism. RK has a structure similar to the structures of capsaicin and synephrine (Fig. 1). Capsaicin (N-[(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-methyl]-8-methyl-6-nonamide), a pungent principle of hot red pepper, has been reported to decreased the adipose tissue weight and serum triacylglycerol content by enhancing energy metabolism ( [Kawada et al., 1986a] and [Kawada et al., 1986b]). Synephrine (1-(4-hydroxy-phenyl)-2-methylaminoethanol), a compound found in Citrus plants, exerts a lipolytic activity in fat cells (Carpene et al., 1999). Noting the structural similarities in these three compounds, we hypothesized that RK might influence the lipid metabolism in ways similar to capsaicin and synephrine. In this study we examined the effects of RK on obesity and lipid metabolism.