Coconut Oil Touted as Alzheimer’s Remedy

The blogger received the following video show about the above-captioned subject:

TAMPA, Fla. - An estimated 5.4 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and that number is expected to increase exponentially as baby boomer generation enters their golden years.

But for some people, coconut oil has proven to slow the progression of Alzheimer's and may have even prevented it.

One of those people is Steve Newport, whose Alzheimer's has slowed considerably. Some of his symptoms even reversed, thanks to the unlikely treatment prescribed by his wife, Dr. Mary Newport, a physician who runs a neonatology ward at a Tampa, Fla., hospital.

Reference: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2012/January/Coconut-Oil-Touted-as-Alzheimers-Remedy/

A brief comment is received later on from the blogger’s most-learned e-buddy, retired nutritionist and medical researcher Dr Lim Ju Boo and is reproduced as follows:

Sunday, 24 June, 2012 1:47 PM

From: lim juboo

Thanks. Just to let you know Alzheimer’s disease is not common in Malaysia, but much more common in western countries. Probably, Malaysians do not live long enough, rather than genetics, to develop Alzheimer's and other diseases listed in the video.

In this country heart and cardiovascular diseases are on a steep rise in recent years especially among Indians and Malays who use coconut milk (santan) for everything, from making curries to their traditional kuihs. Coconut oils are derived from coconut milk and the dried kernel. Chinese too are now affected.

In one human study my colleagues and I (as a lead investigator) conducted at the Institute for Medical Research among medical students in their hostel 1980’s, we found coconut oil dramatically raised their blood cholesterol within a very short feeding period compared to the group whom we gave palm and corn oils.

But I am unable to say if this will have an effect on their risk of developing heart disease later on in life. In any case, the feeding period was very short, just for 3 weeks until we withdrew them from the clinical trial for risk and ethical reasons.

This is just for your info. Be very careful what you read from the Internet.

jb lim