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Organic Coconut Oil
Half of the fat content in coconut oil is lauric acid—a fat rarely found in nature—that could easily qualify as a "miracle" ingredient because of its unique health promoting properties. Your body converts lauric acid into monolaurin, which has anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-protozoa properties.

Additionally, the naturally occurring saturated fat found in coconut oil also has some amazing health benefits, such as:

Promoting heart health Supporting immune system health Providing you with an immediate energy source
Promoting weight loss Supporting a healthy metabolism Supporting the proper functioning of your thyroid gland


Your body sends medium-chain fatty acids directly to your liver to use as energy. This makes coconut oil a powerful source of instant energy to your body, a function usually served in the diet by simple carbohydrates. Additionally, research has demonstrated that, due to its metabolic effect, coconut oil also increases the activity of your thyroid. And you've probably heard that a sluggish thyroid is one reason why some people are unable to lose weight, no matter what they do…

Perhaps one of the most interesting benefits of coconut oil is its potential to ward off, or perhaps even treat, dementia. According to research by Dr. Mary Newport, ketone bodies—an alternative fuel for your brain which your body makes when digesting coconut oil—may offer profound benefits in the fight against Alzheimer's disease.

Furthermore, Dr. Newport believes the benefits of ketone bodies may also extend to a number of other health conditions, including:

Parkinson's disease Huntington's disease Multiple sclerosis Amyotrophic lateral sclero­sis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease)
Drug resistant epilepsy Brittle type I diabetes Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes Improved recovery after heart attack


Coconut oil is the ideal choice for all types of cooking. In fact, it's the only oil stable enough to resist mild heat-induced damage. So, whenever you need an oil to cook or bake with, use coconut oil instead of butter, olive oil, vegetable oil, margarine, or any other type of oil called for in recipes. Even though I don't fully recommend frying foods, if you must fry, by all means use coconut oil -- it's your smartest choice. I typically have one to two tablespoons of coconut oil several times a week.

Health Uses of Virgin Coconut Oil
While virgin coconut oil has been documented to help alleviate, ease, protect against and even cure many ailments, it is still vital that the individual maintain a healthy lifestyle, exercise regularly, eat a balance diet of the right kind of food, and drink lots of water.

Some of the 200+ known medical uses
Skin (mosquito/insect bites, itching, rashes, cuts, bruises, scratches, acne, sun-burn, burns, blisters, wrinkles, warts, moles, fungus, skin cancer, pre-cancerous lesions, eczema, stretch marks, massage). Hair (dandruff, scalp care, hair growth, lice infestations). Mouth (cracked lips, gum disease, dental cavities, toothaches, mouthwash, throat infections, sore throat). Thyroid Function (overweight, cold hands/feet, fatigue, migraines, PMS, irritability, fluid retention/swelling, anxiety/panic attacks, depression, memory, concentration, low sex drive, low body temperature, constipation, insomnia, itchiness, food sensitivities, brittle nails, bruise easily, heat/cold intolerance, hypoglycemia, frequent/persistent colds, UTI, yeast infections, immunity, joint pains, poor coordination, irregular menstrual periods). Bacteria (ear, throat, sinus, genital infections, UTI, pneumonia, rheumatic fever, dental cavities and gum disease, food poisoning, toxic shock syndrome, meningitis, gonorrhea, gastric ulcers, parrot fever, septicemia, endocarditis, enterocolitis, E.coli, staphylococcus, strephtococci, strephtococcus). Virus (influenza, measles, herpes, mononucleosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, hepatitis C, AIDS, SARS) Fungus (ringworm, athlete’s foot, jock itch, candidiasis, diaper rash, thrush, toenail fungus). Parasites (giardiasis, tapeworms, pinworms). Cancer (colon, breast, skin, liver, inhibit tumor growth). Others: Asthma, diabetes, psoriasis, artherosclerosis, hypertension, Alzheimer’s, Sjogren syndrome, Crohn’s, headaches, colds, aches and pains, fever, flu, bronchitis, colitis, cysts, dysentery, dysmenorrhea, hemorroids, cough, dropsy, kidney stones, jaundice, scabies, scurvy, syphilis, hematemesis, hemoptysis, phthisis, tuberculosis, tumors, typhoid, stomach ulcers, Parkinson’s, prostate, gallbladder, malnutrition, maintain intestinal health, normalize body functions, reduce body weight by boosting metabolism. It can boost the immune system. It can lower cholesterol, but may also raise cholesterol when too low for the body’s needs.

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Is Coconut Oil REALLY Healthy?

Hi
The doctor told me that I was starting cataract on my eye. The dark spot was visible to me. When I started taking a teaspoon of coconut oil a day it disappeared. The first 3 days or so my vision seemed to be blurry then that disappeared. My sister tried it and the same thing happened to her. But we were only at the beginning stages.

Kahlon

"Coconut oil is the healthiest oil on earth." -Bruce Fife, N.D.. "Coconut oil is the healthiest oil you can use." -Joseph Mercola, D.O..
The soy bean industry has campaigned for years to keep the truth from the public.
Even had the FDA convinced for years. Read about it in Bruce Fife book.
I purchased "The Coconut Oil Miracle" by Bruce Fife about 4 years ago and was so impressed with
the information, I began taking several tablespoons every day since. Great taste if you like coconut.
It only takes a few minutes to thaw to spoon it out, but I like to just use a fork and dig it out.
You won't gain weight eating it because it is medium chain fatty acid. Awesome taste with popcorn!
Make sure it's extra virgin coconut oil. Purchase at health food stores or online.

Coconut oil does not change its molecular stucture like ALL other oils do.Even when used for frying. It can pass through the body without clogging the arteries. Cold pressed oil behaves the same way..Good for salads.
BUT if you raise cold pressed oils temperature by frying with it will change it structure and become like all the other oils available on the shelf. Rubbish. And this is what will build up and block arteries.

Have been using this to treat candida. drink it and put it on the skin, it destroys candida cells(as long as your diet is strict as per intollerance testing). if you add some pure, organic cinnamon oil to your skin jar, and oregano oil, it triples the effect. also drink cinnamon oil in water, alternating with organo oil. that works well as a candida killer, mouth wash, toothpaste etc.
coco oil has the same properties as mothers milk and helps weight loss too.

COCONUT OIL IN HEALTH AND DISEASE: ITS AND MONOLAURIN’S
POTENTIAL AS CURE FOR HIV/AIDS*

By
Dr. Conrado S. Dayrit**
* Read at the XXXVII Cocotech Meeting Chennai, India. July 25, 2000
** Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology University of the Philippines
Past President. Federation of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies
Past President, National Academy of Science and Technology. Philippines

ABSTRACT

The coconut is called the tree of life for it has been providing us, humans, food and drink,
materials for housing, fuel and many industrial uses. And its medicinal uses are many and varied.
The latest medical potential of products of the coconut first identified by Jon Kabara and others in
the 70s, is the anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal activity of its medium chain fatty acids,
particularly lauric acid (C12:0) in its monoglyceride form (monolaurin or ML).

The first clinical trial ever of ML was on 15 HIV-infected patients reporting regularly at the San
Lazaro Hospital, Manila who, never having received any anti-HIV medication, were randomly
assigned to 3 treatment groups: 7.2 g ML, 2.4 g ML and 50 ML of coconut oil daily for 6 months.
The San Lazaro Hospital Team was led by Eric Tayag.

Viral, CD4 and CDS counts, complete blood counts, blood lipids and tests for liver and kidney
functions were done at the beginning of the study and after 3 and 6 months of treatment. In one
patient, the viral load was too low to count.

By the 3rd month, 7 of the patients (50%) showed reduced viral load and by the 6th month 8
patients (2 receiving 7.2h ML, 4 receiving 2.4 g ML and 3 receiving, coconut oil had a lowered viral
count. The CD4/CD8 counts showed a favorable increase in 5 patients. There were no serious side
effects observed.

Three patients developed AIDS on 3rd month of therapy when their CD4 count dropped below
200. One of these three, who was in the coconut oil group. died 2 weeks after the study. The two other AIDS patients were in the 2.4 g ML group; one recovered fully on the 6th month and the other showed a rapid return towards normal CD4 and CD8 counts.

Introduction

Folkloric and Ayurvedic writings are replete with accounts of the efficacy of the coconut for
many ailments -from the cure of wounds, bums, ulcers, lice infestations to dissolution of kidney
stones(l) and treatment of choleraic dysenteries(2). The people of South Asia and the Pacific also
look to the coconut as an important provider of food, drink and fuel, not to mention its many uses in industry. Hence, it has been called the tree of life.

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More recently, Lim-Sylianco et al demonstrated in animals a powerful protecting effect of
coconut oil against six powerful muta-carcinogenic chemicals, (such as benzpyrine, azaserine and
nitrosamines). The protection was observed not only when coconut oil was given with the diet for
several days before the mutacarcinogen but also when it was given in one bolus or dose with the
mutacarcinogen(J.4). In both experiments, coconut oil gave a significantly higher protection than
soybean oil. In another animal study by Lim-Navarro, et al (5), evidence for another protectant
effect of coconut oil was obtained, i.e. significant prevention against shock in rats injected with E.
coli endotoxin. The mechanism for these anti-inflammatory, antitoxic, antimutacarcinogenic actions
are still not known.

Anti-Infective Action
In a series of papers published in the 70s, Jon J Kabara et al (6-10) and other workers studied
the anti-microbial activity of various fatty acids. They found that the medium chain fatty acids
(MCF A) with 6 to 12 carbons, possessed significant activity against gram positive bacteria, but not
against gram negatives; they were also active against lipid coated viruses as well as fungi and
protozoa. Saturated fatty acids, longer than 14 carbons long had no such activity. And of the MCFA, lauric acid (CI2:0) was most potent, particularly in its monoglyceride form (monolaurin); it was more active than caprilic acid (C- caprie acid (C-I0) or myristic acid (C-14). The dilaurin and
trilaurin (di and triglycerides) had no activity. This finding has found use in the incorporation of
monolaurin in cosmetic products and mouth washes; but although classified by the USFDA as
GRAS (Generally Regarded as Safe), its oral use for systemic inflections has not been tried.

HIV-AIDS Patients and the Coconut
According to Mary Enig(11), the AIDS organization, Keep Hope Alive, has documented several
HIV -AIDS patients whose viral load fell to as low as undetectable levels, when they took coconut
oil or ate coconut (half a coconut a day) or when they added coconut to their anti-HIV medication
(anti protease and/or antiretrovirals) that had previously not been effective. The amount of coconut oil consumed (50 ml or 3 1/2 tablespoonfuls) or half of a coconut, would contain 20-25 grams of lauric acid, which indicates that the oil is metabolized in the body to release lauric acid and/or monolaurin.

The Monolaurin Trial on HIV-AIDS
The first clinical trial (pilot study) using Monolaurin for 6 months as monotherapy on 15 mv
patients was just completed (12). These 15 patients (Table 1) ages 21 to 38 years, 5 males and 10 females, were all regularly reporting to San Lazaro Hospital, the hospital for infectious disease of
the Department of Health. None of them could afford’ or ever received anti-HIV treatment. The
males averaged 58 k in weight (49 to 68 k) and the females, 54k (39 to 65 k). Seven showed
elevated liver enzymes (ALT and AST) and 12 had unexplained eosinophilia. Two patients had
high serum cholesterol and one had elevated triglyceride. No one had renal dysfunction. Their viral
load ranged from 1,960 to 1,190,000 except for one patient (#94-022B) whose load was too low to 3 count (below 400). This fact unfortunately was not determined before the random assignment of the patients to the 3 treatment groups. The monolaurin used was 95% pure. It was given in capsules, each containing 800 mg ML. The coconut oil was administered by tablespoonfuls.

The 3 treatment groups to which the 15 patients were randomly assigned were {Table II):
a) High Dose Monolaurin (HML): 7.2 grams (9 capsules) ML 3 time daily or about
22 grams daily

b) Low Dose Monolaurin (LML): 2.4 grams (3 capsules) ML 3 times daily or 7.2
grams daily.

c) Coconut oil (CNO): 15 ml 3 times daily or 45 ml daily. The ML content of this
dose is about the same as HML.

All patients were observed daily for any side effects. Baseline, 3-month and 6-month laboratory
examinations included: viral load (by PCR method), CD4 and CD8 counts (by-flow-cytometric
method), complete blood count, tests for liver function (ALT, AST), renal function (urea N and
creatinine), blood lipids (cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL) and body weight (k). Treatment benefit
was defmed as reduction in viral load and increase in CD4 count.

Tables II and III summarize the effects of the 3 treatment groups on the viral load, CD4 and
CD8 counts. On the 3rd month, 2 showed decreased viral count with HML, 2 with LML and 3 with
CNO for a total of 7 patients benefited. The other patients all had increased viral load. Patient #94-
022A continued to have undeterminable viral load and was excluded from the computation. On the 6th month, and end of the study. 8 of the 14 patients had decreased viral count, (2 of the 4 given HML, 4 of the 5 given LML and 3 of the 5 given CNO). The decrease in viral count was, however, significant only in 3 patients using the log Baseline-log 6th month ~ 0.5 criterion. Two of these significant decreases were in the CNO group and one in the LML group.

The CD4. and CD8 counts (Table III) increased only in 5 patients and did not quite correlate
with the fall in viral load, decreasing even when the viral load fell and increasing when the viral
load rose. Patient #93006 had a steady viral load during the first 3 months but suffered a severe
secondary infection in the 5th and 6th month, which caused the HIV infection to worsen despite
fairly good CD4/CD8 response.

AIDS (CD4 less than 200) developed in 3 patients on the 3ni month of LML therapy (2 patients)
and CNO therapy (1 patient). The last mentioned patient (#86-001) died 2 weeks after the termination
of the study. The patient under LML, however, fared better; one (# 93028) recovered by the 6th
month. and the other (#95052) was showing improvement of both CD4 and CD8 counts at the end
of the study.

Eleven (11) subjects gained weight -from 1 k to 23 k -including the 2 who developed AIDS and
were recovering. The single AIDS fatality lost 6 k. The other 3 who failed to gain weight had
decreasing viral and rising CD4 counts.

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About one-half of the subjects in this study complained of feeling of warmth and a greenish
hue to their urine (Table IV A), Both occurred at the beginning of the study and did not interfere
with its continuation. Another 3 subjects had flaring up of their acne.
There were 11 subjects with eosinophilia at the start and 7 subjects with some liver dysfunction
(Table 1). The treatment caused a rise of the eosinophilia in 7 of the II, and a rise in ALT/AST in 3
of the 7 (Table IVA).

The patients with normal liver and kidney functions showed no effect from the treatments.
At the beginning, 2 subjects had elevated cholesterol and another one had high serum triglyceride
(Table !VB). After 6 months, 4 patients had abnormal cholesterol and triglyceride, 3 had high
cholesterol only and 2 had high triglyceride only.
Conclusion from the Study
This initial trial confirmed the anecdotal reports that coconut oil does have an anti-viral effect
and can beneficially reduce the viral load of HIV patients. The positive anti-viral action was seen
not only with the monoglyceride of lauric acid but with coconut oil itself. This indicates that coconut
oil is metabolized to monoglyceride forms of C-8, C-IO, C- 12 to which it must owe its antipathogenic
activity.

More and longer therapies using monolaurin will have to be designed and done before the
defmitive role of such coco products can be determined. With such products, the outlook for more
efficacious and cheaper anti HIV therapy is improved.

Anti-pathogen Mechanism of Monotriglycerides of MCT
The fact dlat monolaurin’s activity is limited to lipid coated organisms (gram positive bacteria,
enveloped viruses) suggests strongly that the relatively short C-12, C-IO or C-8 [Icelandic scientists
have recently reported on the effectiveness of monocaprin (C-IO) against HIV virus] probably exert
their action on the lipid-layered coat or plasma membrane to destabilize it or even to cause its
rupture. If this mechanism proves correct, monolaurin (and monocaprin and monocapryliu) could
be bactericidal and could act synergistically with the present anti-HIV agents (the antiretrovirals
and protease inhibitors).

Reprise
With all the opprobrium cast against it, it bears repeating again and again that no evidence has
ever been presented to prove that coconut oil causes coronary heart disease in humans. All the
evidences presented have been in various species of animals who were given coconut oil alone
without the necessary dose of essential fats or PUFA that should be given, just like the essential
vitamins and minerals. On the contrary, the human epidemiologic evidence proves that coconut oil
is safe. Coconut eating peoples like the Polynesians (Table V) and Filipinos (Fig. I) have low
cholesterol, on the average, and very low incidence of heart disease.
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IS THIS FORUM STILL ABOUT MMS OR DID WE SWITCH TO COCONUTS ????