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Originally Posted by dilmar
Interest in the potential for coconut oil's use in combating Alzheimer's grew in the wake of an October 2011 online article and a January 2012 Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) video touting its efficacy in that regard. CBN is a Christian television broadcasting network in the United States begun by Pat Robertson in 1961 that is best known for the 700 Club. Dr. Mary Newport (featured in the CBN video linked to above), author of the 2011 book Alzheimer's Disease: What If There Was a Cure?: The Story of Ketones, and the medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit of Spring Hill Regional Hospital in Florida, supports the glucose-starvation theory and postulates ketones (delivered in the form of coconut oil) provide an alternative energy source for brain cells that have lost to Alzheimer's their ability to use glucose (the brain’s chief energy source). She points to her own husband's remarkable results after having had his diet supplemented with this substance as one of the proofs of this form of treatment.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/medical/diseas...Hhth1M8BBgk.99
Except for personal testimonies on a number of sites this is the only background I have on coconut oil. Is there any further research or proof to back the claims made for it? |
Don't forget Bruce Fife's book "Stop Alzheimer's Now"
Clinical trials (proof) are in very short supply, because so far very little money is being made available to fund ketone research.
The only clinical trial (proof) that I am aware of is in 2009:
Study of the ketogenic agent AC-1202 in mild to moderate
Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, double-blind, placebocontrolled,
multicenter trial
Samuel T Henderson*, Janet L Vogel, Linda J Barr, Fiona Garvin, Julie J Jones and Lauren C Costantini
Currently there is a clinical trial being conducted at the University of Florida, Byrd Institute but results won't be available for several years. This trial was funded anonymously based on a significant number of anecdotal reports submitted to Mary Newport after she published her book.