I'm still taking it but at 1 tbsp every other day due to bloating. Gonna' sneak up on it. Does seem to help.

I heard today something about that raw butter is more easilyy digested than pasteurized -its spendy but can be frozen..oooooooooooooooooh how I do LOVE butter! coconut + butter great on homemade popcorn

Lindy said:
I would not increase overall fat intake, instead substitute a small amount of your RDA for fats with coconut oil, but I would advise a little goes a long way.

Why, Lindy? I thought that the consensus is 3 to 4 meal spoons of coconut oil per day which I have been taking for 2 weeks now with measured increase of energy.
My measure is my maximum limit of expended calories on stationary cycling exercize which increased from 160 to 220 calories since I started taking coco nut oil.
Imad

From today's Daily Mail

Can cutting carbohydrates from your diet make you live longer?

‘Ten years ago we thought ageing was probably the result of a slow decay, a sort of rusting,’ he says. ‘But Professor Kenyon has shown that it’s not about wear and tear, but instead it is controlled by genes. That opens the possibility of slowing it down with drugs.’

But what Professor Kenyon found out was why *drastically reducing calories has such a remarkable effect.

She discovered that it changed the way two crucial genes behaved. It turned down the gene that controls insulin, which in turn switched on another gene, which acted like an elixir of life.
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‘It sends out instructions to a whole range of repair and renovation genes,’ says Professor Kenyon.

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The Sweet Sixteen gene also ‘boosts compounds that make sure the skin and muscle-building *proteins are working properly, the immune system becomes more active to fight infection and genes that are active in cancer get turned off,’ she adds.

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That’s because carbs make your body produce more insulin (to mop up the extra blood sugar carbs *produce); and more insulin means a more active Grim Reaper.

So the vital second gene, the ‘elixir’ one, won’t get turned on.

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In fact raised insulin levels, triggered by high carbohydrate *consumption, could be what *connects many of our big killers.

Research is at its early stage, but raised insulin triggers an increase in cholesterol production in the liver, makes the walls of blood vessels *contract so blood pressure goes up and stimulates the release of fats called triglycerides (linked to heart disease).

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One way to reduce insulin levels is to exercise, which makes you more sensitive to it, which in turn means you need less of it. It also gives another health benefit in a surprising way. Exercise actually increases the level of damaging free radicals which stimulates the body to produce more protective anti-oxidants.

So should we all be trying to cut back on carbs to reduce our insulin levels?

It is a suggestion that flies in the face of 30 years of health advice to have a lower fat intake and eat plenty of long-lasting complex carbo*hydrates to keep the body supplied with energy.

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Carbo*hydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...#ixzz13SdRJShM

Three comments of my own-
1) One thing that we do know is that caloric restriction and exercise slow and maybe even reverse PD. Both actions decrease insulin.
2) Note that it is not direct damage from insulin that is the problem, but rather the blocking of the repair gene.
3) Two things happened in England about the time that Dr. Parkinson's was born. One was that the many strains of wheat were abandoned in favor of one much different variety that lent itself to harvesting by the new machinery. Two, the price of sugar plummeted from a rich man's treat to a poor man's staple.

Harley's thread this morning talks of how individualized we are. This idea of diet influencing insulin which, in turn, prevents the proper functioning of broad repair systems would fit. Each of us has a weak link in our chain. Mine is near yours but not precisely on it.

I am wondering about the intake of coconut oil too, but not for fat content. I read in a blog by a scientist who proposes an anti-inflammatory diet for PWP that in a normal person, the extra saturated fat is not an issue, but not so for people who have inflammation on the brain. I am going to post a question/comment to see if he will elaborate. For now, I am only taking 2 tablespoons.

Recall how whenever we read of something being beneficial in animal models like Dextromethorphan and EGCG...some things need to be micro-dosed and what's scary is that taking too much of something can actually cause more damage than help. This is why I am a little wary of the coconut oil right now. Plus, there is evidence on a larger scale that it helps AD, but no back up evidence of this with PD. I hold back on going overboard with anything until I hear otherwise. Maybe it's time we put together a serious poll through Survey Monkey or something and made the rounds in a few different forums?

Laura

at 1 teaspoon a day, but it appeared to have the foggy brain and slurring of words effect on me

There is also discussion of "medium chain triglycerides" on Dr. Newport's site. Anyone know about them?

The Weston Price Foundation website and the work of Mary Enig.This will tell you lots on fats and especially the importance of coconut oil.
PS Do you have scones in the U.S because coconut oil makes lovely scones? If you do not have scones I will post a healthy recipe. In Devon England we have them with clotted cream and jam.(That is the unhealthy but yummy bit)

I just looooove scones (learned they were pronounced scahns by a Welsh ex-pat) and clotted creme. I have the Mary Enig book "Eat Fat, Lose Fat" and am trying it out starting next week. There are some beloved carbs I can't bring myself to throw away just yet...please post the recipe!

Based on Enig, the clotted creme is good for us, so I say...bring it on! A moderate amount, of course.

Marilyn Deaton, 60, of New York dined almost exclusively on fat for a month and saw some improvement in her Parkinson's symptoms.
you should read !!!!!!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...reatment_x.htm