Thanks for your posts.
Our CBN medical reporter, Lorie Johnson, suggests starting off with about 2 tablespoons a day and increase gradually to 6 tablespoons a day. It's a great idea to REPLACE ALL OILS in regular cooking and baking (just melt it in the microwave if it needs to be liquid) with the tasteless, odorless kind of coconut oil, such as LouAna, which you can purchase from the oil section of the grocery store and costs about four dollars. Please visit Dr. Newport's website and/or read her book. Both very informative and easy to understand. Dr. Newport's website: http://www.coconutketones.com/
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CBN.COM ADMIN Jan 7, 2013 at 10:43 am Flag as inappropriate

The coconut oil, Louanna brand in the video, is available at my Walmart. I use that when cooking savory foods as it has no smell or taste. I buy an expensive brand at the health food store that smells and tastes like coconut from my health food store. I use that with recipes that have fruit in them, like a dressing with basalmic vinegar over a tossed salad with strawberries or apples or oranges and walnuts, or baked apples, or brown rice destined for rice pudding.

BraveLute Oct 30, 2012 at 10:15 pm Flag as inappropriate

Pure coconut oil can be purchased at your local health food store. Organic is best. I've cooked with it & what is interesting about that is that it doesn't cause the food such as stir fry veggies to taste like coconut. I've also eaten spoonfuls of it right out of the jar. It is delicious & I could taste a coconut flavor. I knew it was healthy, but I didn't know about all of these wonderful benefits. Thanks, CBN.

Rita Harbison Oct 8, 2012 at 6:42 pm Flag as inappropriate

Hello
I would like to purchase a coconut oil , how i can order

kamla Sep 4, 2012 at 3:30 pm Flag as inappropriate

Thank you CBN for this wonderful information. I shall pass it on to my father who suffers from Alzheimer's. I will buy high quality coconut oil for him to take. Thanks also to the posters on this forum who have contributed with their thoughts and observations. Much appreciated! :-)

Eric Aug 2, 2012 at 7:37 am Flag as inappropriate

I am from the tropics and for years, our coconut oil exports have been affected by socalled studies conducted by the West. Today, you have come one big circle to appreciate what our forefathers have been using for centuries without any ill effects - coconut oil.
My suggestion is to make your own coconut oil. It is best. You can find many videos on Youtube on how to make it - by boiling coconut milk and turning it into oil. This is best coconut oil as this is what we in the Tropics have done.
I am sharing this because there is the Internet this day. Take coconut oil and you will be amazed in three weeks when your life turns around.
If you are in the West, you have been unfairly informed by your own industries and people with their own interests. Today you have been blessed with the Internet. Hope you will now see Coconut oil in different light.

abuya Jun 30, 2012 at 10:10 am Flag as inappropriate

Fish oil, and purple grapes will also prevent strokes, are good for your skin, and the fish oil is good for arthritis.

7obmar May 8, 2012 at 9:40 pm Flag as inappropriate

My husband has been having silent strokes for many years the last one was not silent and was a full blown stroke caused from blocked carotid neck arteries, He came through this with surgery. He could not pass the clock test when it was discovered that he was having hundreds of silent or mini strokes. He has dementia from the strokes that disrupted his short term memory. But doctors say it's not Alzheimer's . I am going to try this - Has anyone had experience with it helping short term memory loss?

dearrosey Apr 22, 2012 at 8:12 pm Flag as inappropriate

Thanks for this wonderful info but I can not seem to locate any local stores (Long Island, NY) that carry coconut oil that is non hydrogenated, nor can I find any online resources as to where I can purchase it. I can find plenty of coconut oil but none are non hydrogenated, as the Doctor shows in her video. She also makes no mention of where she purchases it. Maybe it WAS mentioned and I overlooked it but I think not. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance!

Scruffy Cammarata Apr 8, 2012 at 10:16 am Flag as inappropriate

Can some one please send this to me as a Windows media player file? Send it to bomiedoctor@gmail.com
Thank you
Bomi Doctor.

Bomi Apr 4, 2012 at 8:44 am Flag as inappropriate

good information

Victoria Mar 26, 2012 at 5:30 pm Flag as inappropriate

Remember if you want to liquify DO NOT do so in the microwave, place solid in small bowl or I use old shot glass and set in larger bowl of hot water to melt. Yes I know it is faster to use microwave but it changes the molecular consistancy..and all natural has no basic flavor.

Cynthia Mar 24, 2012 at 3:54 pm Flag as inappropriate

I have been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, this is great. I didn't look forward to this malady.

Shogunhale Mar 22, 2012 at 9:10 pm Flag as inappropriate

I am reading the posts and all I can say is wow. This is really bringing a lot of interest.
Thank you

Martha P Mar 22, 2012 at 1:03 pm Flag as inappropriate

As a professor of nutrition who teaches metabolism I'd like to suggest a few things. 1) It's interesting and promising to see cases in which the production of ketone bodies appears to reduce some symptoms of Alzheimer's, however it is unlikely that this is a due to a direct effect of lack of insulin to help get glucose into brain cells. Glucose gets into brain cells using a glucose transporter -- but unlike many other cell types, the glucose transporter in brain cells is not dependent upon insulin, as it is in muscle and adipose tissue. This does not mean that ketone bodies are not important, it just means that's not the mechanism. The truth is that we really don't know why the brain cells are not taking up and using glucose for energy in a normal way -- it could be the person is not making sufficient transporters for glucose, or not converting glucose to energy once glucose is in the cell. Whatever the reason for the lack of ability to use glucose, ketone bodies can overcome this problem as the brain can use them without glucose transporters, and metabolize them by a different pathway than glucose (which uses glycolysis as the first part of metabolism) whereas fatty acids use beta oxidation as the first part of metabolism. 2) Although coconut oil, which contains medium chain triglycerides (MCT) which are absorbed differently than long chain triglycerides (LCT) -- the fatty acids from MCT go directly through the portal vein to the liver whereas the MCT are absorbed and made into triglycerides in the intestinal cells and travel in the lymph in chylomicrons -- the liver (which is the organ that makes ketones) -- will not make a lot of ketones if glucose levels are high. Thus, for this to work, one would also have to be on a low carbohydrate diet. On a low carbohydrate diet stored triglycerides in fat break down, go to the liver and form LOTS of ketone bodies -- much more than could be achieved with a few tablespoons of coconut oil. Blood glucose levels are low, and ketone bodies are high, and the brain uses ketone bodies. 3) What is NOT desireable is to stay on a high carbohydrate diet and attempt to form ketone bodies at the same time. That is what can happen during diabetes when blood glucose is high, and glucose can't get out of the blood into muscle cells or fat cells (ineffective insulin), the cells get the signal that they are starving because they don't have glucose and they start breaking down triglycerides for energy and one has high glucose and high ketones at the same time. This is not a normal physiological condition and can lead to undesirable consequences. Bottom line is: diabetics with ineffective insulin should not attempt to induce ketosis and otherwise "normal" individuals should not attempt to induce ketosis by taking significant amounts of MCT without accompanying the MCT with a ketogenic, low carbohydrate diet.
Sorry for being so long winded but I really felt a professional obligation to write.

nutritionist Mar 5, 2012 at 12:03 am Flag as inappropriate

Very good in oatmeal makes it smoother and you can not taste anything at all.

Trish Mar 4, 2012 at 9:05 pm Flag as inappropriate

My mother inlaw has Alzheimer"s I just read this.I bought coconut oil and gave her a tea spoon last night.Would like to know how much to give her a day.

brendaleonard Feb 22, 2012 at 9:15 am Flag as inappropriate

You can also get organic coconut oil in capsules through Swanson Health Products.

cj Feb 20, 2012 at 3:17 pm Flag as inappropriate

I order my coconut oil from Swanson Health Products online which is organic and I think is priced better than most places.

cj Feb 20, 2012 at 3:16 pm Flag as inappropriate

You can get coconut oil in capules. vitimin shoppe.

Billie Feb 19, 2012 at 12:54 pm Flag as inappropriate

What would the dosage per day be? Does it come in pill form and what would the dosage be for that and if it comes in pill form is it as effective?

Thank you

dorothy Feb 17, 2012 at 10:02 pm Flag as inappropriate

This is very interesting my mother has alzheimers and my siter is terrified that she will as well. Pierce Ellis

Pierce Ellis Feb 12, 2012 at 9:46 am Flag as inappropriate

can this be purchased in a pill form?
BAB

BAB Feb 8, 2012 at 3:58 pm Flag as inappropriate

One of the recommendations was to increase dosage up to 6 tablespoons a day. That would be 600-700 calories a day, approximately a third to a half of daily calorie intake. Can that be correct?

bstith Feb 8, 2012 at 12:40 pm Flag as inappropriate

My Father has Parkinson's Decease do you think this can help him???

Amanda De Zilva Feb 8, 2012 at 1:40 am Flag as inappropriate