5 Amazing Health Benefits of Coconut Oil
Posted by Renee Quarles on 3rd Sep 2014
In today's healthy journey, we are all seeking natural ways to improve and sustain our health; especially as we are age.
Much of improving our health begins with what we eat and how we prepare the food we are ingesting into our bodies.
Many of us want to boost brain function, reduce seizures, boost immune system, enhance skin and more; consider adding Coconut Oil into your health improvement journey.
Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil is the latest food cure-all, claiming to cure everything from poor immune function, thyriod disease, heart disease, obesity, cancer, and HIV.
It is amazingly luscious for skin care, hair care, and massages too.
Coconut Oil is a cholesterol-free, “good fat” that serves as a nutritious substitute for baking and delicious on bread, vegetables, or popcorn. It can stay fresh for a long time.
You can heat and re-heat it under normal cooking temperatures and it won't produce abnormal quantities of free radicals.
Boost Brain Function in Alzheimer’s Patients
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia worldwide and occurs primarily in our elders.
There appears to be a reduced ability to use glucose for energy in certain parts of the brain in Alzheimer’s patients.
- Coconut oil is a good source of a particular type of fat known as medium chain triglyceride. This fat is converted into substances called ketone bodies, which the brain can use as a fuel source.
- Ketone bodies can supply energy for the brain and researchers have speculated that ketones can provide an alternative energy source for these malfunctioning cells and reduce symptoms of Alzheimer’s.
- Coconut foods can dramatically improve brain chemistry; cognitive function plus much more.
Incorporate coconut oil into your daily diet via salads, stir fry’s, baking, and many other nutritious meals.
Reduce Seizures
Fatty Acids in Coconut Oil turn into Ketones and reduces seizures.
Because the MCTs in coconut oil get shipped to the liver and turned into ketone bodies, they are often used in epileptic patients to induce ketosis while allowing for a bit more carbs in the diet.
The MCTs in coconut oil can increase blood concentration of ketone bodies, which can help reduce seizures in epileptic children.
- A so-called ketogenic (very low carb, very high fat) diet is currrently being studied to treat various disorders. The best known therapeutic application of this diet is treating drug-resistant epilepsy in children.
- This diet involves eating very little carbohydrates and large amounts of fat, leading to greatly increased concentrations of ketone bodies in the blood.
- For some reason, this diet can dramatically reduce the rate of seizures in epileptic children, even those who haven’t had success with multiple different types of drugs.
Boost Immune System
Coconut Oil strengthens the immune system because it contains antimicrobial lipids, lauric acid, capric acid and caprylic acid which have antifungal, antibacterial and antiviral properties.
Our bodies converts lauric acid into monolaurin which research has supported as an effective way to deal with viruses and bacteria that cause diseases like herpes, influenza, cytomegalovirus, and even HIV.
Coconut oil helps in fighting harmful bacteria like listeria monocytogenes and helicobacter pylori, and harmful protozoa such as giardia lamblia.
Replacing your current cooking oils with coconut oil is one of the fastest and easiest ways to effectively boost your immune system.
Discontinuing your use of these unstable kitchen oils will benefit your immune system. And with coconut oil taking their place, your bodily defenses are switched to a considerably higher gear.
Enhance Skin Care
Coconut oil is an excellent massage oil for the skin.
It acts as an effective moisturizer on all types of skin, including dry skin.
Coconut oil is a great solution for preventing dryness and flaking of skin.
It delays the appearance of wrinkles and sagging of skin which normally accompany aging. Coconut oil also helps in treating various skin problems including psoriasis, dermatitis, eczema and other skin infections.
For these reasons you will find coconut oil as the base ingredient of various body care products like soaps, lotions, and creams that are used for skin care.
Coconut oil aids in the prevention of premature aging and degenerative disease due to its well-known antioxidant properties.
Weight loss
Coconut oil is very useful for weight loss.
It contains short and medium-chain fatty acids that help in taking off excessive weight. It is also easy to digest and it helps in healthy functioning of the thyroid and endocrine system.
Further, it increases the body’s metabolic rate by removing stress on the pancreas, thereby burning more energy and helping obese and overweight people lose the weight.
Hence, people living in tropical coastal areas, who use coconut oil every day as their primary cooking oil, are normally not fat, obese or overweight.
There are many more advantages to adding coconut oil into your lifestyle, the above are just a few.
Our brand of Coconut Oil is packed by Nutiva and is a product of the Philippines. Make sure to ask about it when you come by.
If you are already using coconut oil, please share any advice you have for us and to help others in the comments below.
Learn more from these awesome resources that we utilized for this blog post:
https://www.organicfacts.net/organic-oils/organic-coconut-oil/health-benefits-of-coconut-oil.html