Health Benefits of Coconut Oil

More and more reports are coming out on the benefits of including coconut oil in your diet that one has to think it might just be good for you in more ways than you think.  My personal research into coconut oil was based on my father passing from Alzheimer's disease.  As we get older our bodies can not process the nutrients our brain needs to retain memories so certain brain functions cease to function. Adding virgin coconut oil to a persons diet on a daily basis skips our bodies nutrient transportation system and feeds the brain with the nutrients it needs for memory retention.  Check out the video below about Dr. Mary Newport and her husband Steve and the reversal of his Alzheimer disease.


  

And yet there are many other uses for coconut oil that are not in the mainstream media database.  Here are just a few benefits to your health that I have seen lately in my personal research.  I am not a doctor or scientist but some of the people posting this information are.

Increases ability of people with dementia to function and recall memories over time.
Helps with and can heal eczema and psoriasis due to its anti microbial properties
Dental hygiene when used in pulling that helps protect your mouth from bad bacteria
When rubbed on the skin after and injury or infection it speeds healing.
If you suffer from athletes foot it is very effective in fighting it. 
Coconut oil can help improve insulin levels when ingested daily.
It is a natural antibacterial skin cream.
Reduces acne when used regularly.
Increases absorption of calcium and magnesium.
Coconut oil speeds recovery from UTI's when used internally and externally.
Using coconut oil on a daily basis increases mental alertness.
When coconut oil is mixed with apple cider vinegar it kills head lice.
Coconut oil fats in your diet may help with depression and anxiety.

The list goes on.  Google search and get answers folks.  This is one product you want to keep in your kitchen cabinet and in your medicine cabinet.

Papamoka

Alzheimer's and Coconut Oil Connection

I'm always curious about any news on Alzheimer's disease and any breakthroughs regarding the treatment for people with that disease.  I have to confess that my curiosity is based on having cared for my father (that's his picture) who eventually died from it back in 2003.  Lately, I have noticed that there are more and more different treatments for multiple medical problems and diseases that are from an organic or homeopathy origin.  And yes, that may also be due to the fact that my girlfriend is 100% organic in her Vegan lifestyle and all I have to do is ask her what she has seen lately and she is ten times better than Google.  Hint, hint Google.  Send me an email and I'll send you her contact info.

Dr. Mary Newport from Florida is all over the internet with her claims of treating her husband who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease with organic coconut oil.  Just four teaspoons a day and she saw dramatic results in the first week.  Over the course of a year her husband slowly regained his abilities according to her statements.  You can see her story in this amazing video about Dr. Mary Newport from You Tube on her treatment plan for her husband who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease with just coconut oil.





This led me on a search to which the girlfriend said to check this page out on the subject.  Over at Natural News they have this to say in the article from 2/23/2012 titled "Coconut oil may be able to reverse the progression of Alzheimer's disease"...

The most cutting-edge research suggests that Alzheimer's may stem from an inability of the brain to process glucose, leading to cell death. But the brain has another source of fuel: ketones, produced by the body from mid-chain triglycerides like those found in coconut oil. In fat, the most promising experimental Alzheimer's drugs being tested today is nothing more than medium-chain triglycerides derived from coconut and palm kernel oil.

Coconut oil also turns out to be an extraordinary cooking oil because it resists smoking, even at high temperatures. Try cooking in coconut oil instead of olive oil (or cheaper vegetable oils) and you'll notice a clear difference. - Natural News


Any treatment that is better than a medication from big pharmaceutical companies that claim it "May slow the progression of Alzheimer's Disease" that actually shows results is great news.  Like all treatments, using coconut oil may not work for everyone.  Having hope and trying is better than throwing in the towel and giving up.  You can check out her book as well as others available at Amazon.

 


PLEASE SEND me any link if you see any news from any source on new breakthroughs in Alzheimer's Disease treatment.  My email is in the side bar.  I'll do a post on it or add it to this one.

Papamoka

5/20/12***  HAT TIP to CW Padden who contacted me about this subject.

Special note from CW... The Coconut oil must be organic, raw, and unboiled.  Processed coconut oil that is hydrogenated is not what this post is all about.  Thank you CW Padden from Ireland!!!  Hugs at ya.

Alzheimer’s Association News

Having loved and lost my dad to Alzheimer’s disease I can honestly say that it is a disease I would not wish on my worst enemy. To see someone you love slowly degenerate into someone so helpless and lost it scares me. And there by the grace of God go I. As we baby boomers age the chances of us coming down with this disease is very high. Some people say one in ten, others claim three in ten. Even if you look at the least amount it is still ten percent of the population. There is a way to cure this disease and the way to do it is to speak out on it, talk about it, and if you can afford to do so, donate to the people that want to fight it head on at the Alzheimer's Association.

Check out the links below and if you can ACT on the issue of Alzheimer’s then you are looking out for the one in ten that could be you. We will never know what causes this debilitating disease if we keep it and our loved ones afflicted with it in the closet. The time to fight and beat Alzheimer’s disease is now.

Thank you for your support in defeating this terrible disease. Please check out the links below and ACT accordingly to your heart’s desire.

10 Signs of Alzheimers

Alzheimer Myths

Related Dementia’s

Diagnosing Alzheimer's

Papamoka

Alzheimer’s Disease Breakthrough

For my Dad... to the left aka Grampa Jack

From the point of view from someone that actually has Alzheimer’s disease it must be frustrating to know that you are slowly losing everything you know that is you. You will forget who you wife or husband is and fear them. You will forget who your own children are and be cautious and accusatory toward them. Eventually, you will forget everything that ever mattered in your life and find yourself crying because you will know that you are lost. Having seen my own father go through it, it would terrify me to think that there but for the grace of God go I. This debilitating disease robs your mind of all of the memories that were your life and as we baby boomers get older and more fragile we better start to care more about the research that is needed to make it the Small Pocks cure for our generation, and the next, and the next.

Researchers are now finding new answers to old questions by looking at the reverse angle of Alzheimer’s Disease. Beta amyloid build up in the brain otherwise known as plaque was thought to be the body building to much of the needed chemical in the brain but current thought is looking at it as the body not being able to dispose of the beta amyloid properly. Amazing stuff if you care to read about it over at the New York Times…

Alzheimer’s researchers are obsessed with a small, sticky protein fragment, beta amyloid, that clumps into barnaclelike balls in the brains of patients with this degenerative neurological disease.

It is a normal protein. Everyone’s brain makes it. But the problem in Alzheimer’s is that it starts to accumulate into balls — plaques. The first sign the disease is developing — before there are any symptoms — is a buildup of amyloid. And for years, it seemed, the problem in Alzheimer’s was that brain cells were making too much of it.

But now, a surprising new study has found that that view appears to be wrong. It turns out that most people with Alzheimer’s seem to make perfectly normal amounts of amyloid. They just can’t get rid of it. It’s like an overflowing sink caused by a clogged drain instead of a faucet that does not turn off.

That discovery is part of a wave of unexpected findings that are enriching scientists’ views of the genesis of Alzheimer’s disease. In some cases, like the story of amyloid disposal, the work points to new ways to understand and attack the disease. If researchers could find a way to speed up disposal, perhaps they could slow down or halt the disease. - New York Times

When you think about all of the programs in America where mentors that are retired are helping the younger generations to avoid the mistakes they made in business and in life it is such a waste to see so many brilliant minds lost to Alzheimer’s disease. There is no greater loss in the world than knowledge and inside each one of these senior citizens minds is a wealth more valuable than gold.

This disease should be on the fast track to cure and yet it is just one of those old people problems that nobody thinks about till it actually punches you in the gut and it is someone that you love that is affected. Then it never leaves your conscious thought even after your loved one is long gone. And I’m not talking about dead and buried.

Papamoka

Lost and Confused from Dementia

Taking care of my dad (Jack) for so many years I know the fear that can plague your mind when it comes to being a caregiver for someone with Dementia or Alzheimer’s. Dad was constantly wanting to walk or go somewhere but he didn’t know where he was going or why. And for a 68 year old man he could make good time when he started his walking adventures.

His last adventure from his home he managed to be found by the local Shrewsbury Police lost, confused and certain that he lived in Boston. Dad, nor anyone we knew ever lived in Boston? And because I had taken the preventive measures to simply write my phone number and address on a piece of paper in his wallet, the police contacted me right away. I met the Shrewsbury Police at dad’s house and that was when it was decided that he could no longer live by himself. Jack did however enjoy the ride in the cruiser because they ran the siren for him a few times. Dad aka Grandpa Jack was moving in with me and the girls.

Dad eventually needed more care than we could provide and we found a nursing home that specialized in residents with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. If you have ever been to that kind of nursing home you can not help but notice that many of the residents are walking non-stop, checking every door, and seem to be on a mission to go somewhere but they don’t know where.

Over at the New York Times they have a great article about lost or missing elderly loved ones that managed to get out into the world undetected by their care givers. It is becoming such a common event that many police agencies are undergoing new training on locating and dealing with lost elderly people that suffer from dementia or Alzheimer's.

Rising numbers of searches are driving a need to retrain emergency workers, police officers and volunteers around the country who say they throw out just about every generally accepted idea when hunting for people who are, in many ways, lost from the inside out. “You have to stop thinking logically, because the people you’re looking for are no longer capable of logic,” said Robert B. Schaefer, a retired F.B.I. agent who cared for his wife, Sarah, for 15 years at home through her journey into Alzheimer’s. He now leads two-day training sessions for the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services. Mr. Schaefer told his class of mostly police officers here in northern Virginia that unlike the ordinary lost child or hiker, a dementia wanderer will sometimes take evasive action to avoid detection, especially if the disease has made them paranoid about authority figures. - New York Times

This article had me thinking about the fears I had when my dad was at home. We could lock all of the doors but he knew how to unlock a door. And if he were determined enough then he could unlock any of the windows and be off at any time he wanted. If he ever managed to get out then where would I look? Where do you start when you don’t know when, where, how, or even if they are dressed for the weather conditions?

There are GPS Tracking devices available for people with dementia that tend to wander. I don’t know all the facts on them but here are a few websites you can check out. Most of them offer a service that you can access from your home computer to find your lost or missing loved one instantly.

Rocky Mountain Tracking
GPS Geo
Buddi - GPS Tracking

I hope this information helps. It’s a large responsibility to take care of someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s and having the peace of mind to be able to locate someone instantly if they wander off is priceless.

Papamoka

Alzheimer’s Drug Breakthrough

In the last years of my own Dad’s life I felt so helpless and totally useless. My Dad was lost in his own mind from a disease that we could not explain and he would never be the same again. Here was the man that raised me in more ways than just providing a roof over my head and food in my belly. He was the one that instilled a sense of being, a belief in family, a desire to be the best that I could but it was okay to have fun in your life too. Mom had passed away many years before he came down with dementia and eventually Alzheimer’s disease. In my heart I honestly believe that the onset of Alzheimer’s came from the deep depression he went through after her death, he loved her very much, worshipped the ground she walked on so to speak.

My hero, my best friend, my closest confidant was gone for the most part mentally. It is a heartbreaking thing to go through as a child when your parent suffers from Alzheimer’s and no longer remembers you. When he could still walk he always reached for my hand which always made me wonder how much the progression of his disease scared him too. We would walk the aisles of the nursing home for an hour or so, I’d sit him down and read to him as he just looked off into space. If I stopped reading he would look around as if the music had stopped, he recognized that the change in sound but could not put the what and the why together. The simple confusion on his face would lead me to continue reading or talking about my little growing family.

One of the things they did not have when my Dad was suffering from Alzheimer’s is a drug treatment that could suspend the loss of cognition and the progression of the disease. Over at MSNBC they have this story courtesy of Reuters…

Alzheimer’s drug benefit lasts over 18 months

Patients taking Dimebon improved in cognition, memory, researchers say
updated 3:13 p.m. ET, Wed., July. 30, 2008

CHICAGO - A drug for Alzheimer's disease made by Medivation Inc called Dimebon kept symptoms at bay for 18 months, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

The results, which were set to be presented at the Alzheimer's Association's international meeting in Chicago later on Wednesday, found Dimebon was safe and continued to benefit people who took it for a year-and-a-half. - MSNBC

There is not enough research going on in my personal opinion to help all of the people and families that have to live through the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. I’m thankful and hopeful for the researchers at Medivation and the work they have done on the behalf of people like my Dad that suffered from this incurable ailment. Eighteen months extension of Alzheimer’s may not seem like a long time but it is time that you as a relative of the effected person have that much more of. God bless you all over at Medivation for the progress you are making. I hope you know how much hope you have brought to so many families facing a loved one facing the possibility of having Alzheimer’s disease.

For people facing a loved one with Alzheimer’s I highly encourage you to seek out local support groups to take care of you. You are not alone and talking about what is happening to your loved one to others and getting it out of your system can never hurt. People facing the same situation are talking, healing, understanding the same situation you are facing. You do not have to face this alone.

Papamoka

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