Dr. Mary Newport discovered the benefits of using coconut oil to treat her husband’s Alzheimer’s Disease. She discusses how quickly the coconut oil showed improvements in her husband’s condition and what kind of changes happened when the coconut oil wasn’t administered. Dr. Newport has found that the coconut ketones from coconut oil have been very beneficial in the treatment of Alzheimer’s.
Coconut Oil As an Alzheimer’s Treatment – Dr. Mary Newport
so doctor you decided to give your husband coconut oil what were your expectations and what did you see in really a relatively short amount of time?
Yeah well, the interesting thing in the patent application is their first pilot study they showed that people after the first dose had improved scores on cognitive testing.
it was something like five out of seven tests that they did they had improved scores but the other thing too was that people who were appollipo protein for negative were much more likely to improve.
the people who were positive for that Gene as a group did not improve and Steve I knew at that point was positive for that Gene
so I didn’t really expect anything I didn’t expect any Improvement for him but I felt like what do we have to lose and basically what happened he went to the first screening
this was like at 1:00 a.m. that I learned this information and the screening was at 9:00 a.m. the next morning so I didn’t have time to run out and buy coconut oil
so we went to that screening and he still didn’t qualify he got a score of 14 out of 30
he qualified in every other respect but not that the interesting thing that happened that day that ties into the the the long story the longer version is that she had him draw a clock too and it was a the clock test for Alzheimer’s
it’s a very specific test that can kind of see where a person’s at mild moderate severe based on the test and he drew a few little random circles and a few nbers and it really wasn’t organized like a clock and that was a bit shocking for me to see and she told me that she felt he was on the verge of severe Alzheimer’s
and I myself felt that he was kind of on a downward spiral at that point so on the way home
I thought what if we got to lose I’m going to go pick up some coconut oil so I made a a big detour about an hour away from where we live to the only place I had ever seen it and it’s everywhere
but I didn’t know that at that point and picked up some coconut oil and when I got home I researched coconut oil had to kind of do a little biochemistry 101 refresher like which were the medi chain triglycerides and I was able to find a fatty acid analysis breakdown
it’s on the USDA website and I figured out that coconut oil is almost 60% medi chain triglycerides and from the dose that they were using for this medical food
I was able to figure out how much coconut oil to give Steve and that turned out to be a little over two tablespoons okay was equivalent to their dose so the next morning he had a screening scheduled at 1:00 in the afternoon and for breakfast
I gave him a little over two tablespoons of coconut oil I put it into oatmeal because coconut o was a little bit solid at room temperature and he ate it without any problem I actually had a little bit of indigestion myself I took it too
I thought I’m not going to make him take something that I won’t take and his screening was scheduled for 1 in the afternoon and on the way down you know I tried to remind him what the day of the week was and the season he couldn’t even the word spring out you know he couldn’t remember the word
and I didn’t think he was going to do any better when we got down there they took him away and he came back in the room and he didn’t feel like he had done very well on the test
but a nurse came in and starts taking their blood pressure and talking about drawing blood I said what’s happening and she said well he scored an 18 and he met the criteria for the study so we were overjoyed Yeah and I didn’t know at that point if it was the coconut oil good luck prayers you know what it was exactly but decided that we would keep the coconut oil going
and just researched everything I could get my hands on about ketones meat of chain triglycerides coconut oil you know gave him a little over two tablespoons every morning for breakfast
so I measured it out and then started cooking with it the rest of the day I started substituting it for other things in the diet and what I found and addition to you know the improved score was that he had he was more alert in the morning
he used to come out very sluggish and not very conversant in the morning and he couldn’t find you know remember how to get water out of the refrigerator door and you know confusion about utensils and things like that and he just came out with a lot more energy and more animation in his face more personality
joking with me could find the water you know these kinds of things started happening MH and about the fourth or fifth day into it you know we talked about how our life had changed for the better
I mean he felt so much better and he said to him it was like the light switch went on the day he started the coconut oil that the fog lifted and he really felt like he had gotten his life back and had hoped for the future he’d been quite depressed up to that point so you you continue to see improvement over the weeks and months what happens when I mean ultimately you’re going to forget a dose or something’s going to happen travel appointments or something did you notice anything on those days too
yes we did have a couple of occasions like that he one time he had fasting blood work and it was the line was so long that it was noon by the time you know he had gotten his dose of coconut oil but he was very shaky and he felt a little claustrophobic and he had trouble well his Tremor he had had a Tremor that had basically gone away and that that came back and just more confused and 20 to 30 minutes after we gave him the coconut oil then he you know he almost like size and you know the the Tremor goes away and he can think more clearly so we had a couple of occasions that we saw that happen
so it literally acts like an energy and if you don’t have it it’s like if your tank runs out of gas your car doesn’t run you know and it was almost something like that that we were seeing
