Coconut Oil: Nature’s Secret to Meaningful Health
Coconut oil is a bona fide superfood that comes from the flesh of a tropical palm fruit. Often unrecognizable to Westerners in its natural form, within its green outer pod, and hard, brown, fibrous shell, the meat of the coconut provides a wondrous array of health benefits for those who consume it whole or refined.
If you want to reinvigorate your health and stay young in body, mind and spirit, adding coconut oil to your daily diet will help you regain your youthful glow in no time. If you get your hands on organic, virgin coconut oil, these some of the amazing things you can expect to gain (and lose!):
Healthy Fat
Don’t let coconut oil’s high saturated fat content (a whopping 90%) fool you. Coconut oil’s secret to success as a medicinal compound lies within its fat – medium chain triglycerides (MCT). These fatty acids are metabolize differently from the long chain fatty acids found in much of our diet – like in meat and cheese. Coconut’s healthy MCT’s metabolize directly through the liver from the digestive tract, where they are quickly used as an energy source and converted into ketone bodies.
Fat Burning
MCT’s and ketones can increase energy expenditure, while ketones act as an appetite suppressant. This can lead to significant weight loss over time. Highly dangerous and metabolically active abdominal fat is particularly targeted in this “waist” loss.
Healthy Heart
Over time, coconut oil can also reduce the risk of the leading killer in the US, heart disease, by improving cardiovascular risk factors. Coconut oil raises good cholesterol, called high density lipids (HDL) and neutralizes the bad low density lipids (LDL). Coconut oil also reduces triglycerides in the blood, increases blood coagulation factors, and provides heart and brain-healthy antioxidants.
Healthy Brain
Ketone bodies can supply an alternative energy source to malfunctioning brain cells and relieve some symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease - the world’s most common cause of dementia. Coconut oil has also been a part of the therapeutic application of the “ketogenic” (low carb, high fat) diet shown to help reduce seizures in epileptic children; perhaps due to increased concentration of ketone bodies in the blood.
Healthy Body
With almost 50% of coconut oil’s fatty acids being Lauric Acid, which metabolizes into monolaurin, coconut oil is an effective antibacterial, antiviral and antiseptic – staving off harmful infections like those caused by Staph and Candida (yeast).
If you want to reinvigorate your health and stay young in body, mind and spirit, adding coconut oil to your daily diet will help you regain your youthful glow in no time. If you get your hands on organic, virgin coconut oil, these some of the amazing things you can expect to gain (and lose!):
Healthy Fat
Don’t let coconut oil’s high saturated fat content (a whopping 90%) fool you. Coconut oil’s secret to success as a medicinal compound lies within its fat – medium chain triglycerides (MCT). These fatty acids are metabolize differently from the long chain fatty acids found in much of our diet – like in meat and cheese. Coconut’s healthy MCT’s metabolize directly through the liver from the digestive tract, where they are quickly used as an energy source and converted into ketone bodies.
Fat Burning
MCT’s and ketones can increase energy expenditure, while ketones act as an appetite suppressant. This can lead to significant weight loss over time. Highly dangerous and metabolically active abdominal fat is particularly targeted in this “waist” loss.
Healthy Heart
Over time, coconut oil can also reduce the risk of the leading killer in the US, heart disease, by improving cardiovascular risk factors. Coconut oil raises good cholesterol, called high density lipids (HDL) and neutralizes the bad low density lipids (LDL). Coconut oil also reduces triglycerides in the blood, increases blood coagulation factors, and provides heart and brain-healthy antioxidants.
Healthy Brain
Ketone bodies can supply an alternative energy source to malfunctioning brain cells and relieve some symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease - the world’s most common cause of dementia. Coconut oil has also been a part of the therapeutic application of the “ketogenic” (low carb, high fat) diet shown to help reduce seizures in epileptic children; perhaps due to increased concentration of ketone bodies in the blood.
Healthy Body
With almost 50% of coconut oil’s fatty acids being Lauric Acid, which metabolizes into monolaurin, coconut oil is an effective antibacterial, antiviral and antiseptic – staving off harmful infections like those caused by Staph and Candida (yeast).
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