Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  In addition, it's 65 percent lauric acid. What is special about lauric acid is that you find it in mother's breast milk. The mother's body makes lauric acid for the breast milk to build immunity in the baby. If lauric acid wasn't so important, why would the mother's body make it for the milk for the baby? The point is that coconut is the richest source of lauric acid, and the only other place you find it is in mother's breast milk. There's some kind of correlation we can make there and assume lauric acid must be good for your body. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  Coconut Oil—A Gift from the Tropics
Virgin coconut oil is rich in lauric acid, a proven antiviral and antibacterial agent. It is currently being used in treating AIDS. Monolaurin is a monoglyceride of lauric acid. lauric acid is also found in human mother's milk, which makes coconut milk an excellent alternative to milk-formula foods. In fact, coconut milk has been used in the tropics to bring up very healthy children when breast milk was unavailable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | The point is that coconut is the richest source of lauric acid, and the only other place you find it is in mother's breast milk. There's some kind of correlation we can make there and assume lauric acid must be good for your body.
Lauric acid is a raw material your body uses to make monolaurin. Monolaurin is an antiviral, antibacterial property your body uses to build the immune system, and fend off everyday viruses and bacteria that the body is supposed to. Without that raw material, your body cannot make monolaurin. If you don't have lauric acid in your diet, you can't make monolaurin. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition, there are at least a dozen pathogenic viruses that have been reported to be inactivated by lauric acid. Fife points out that another great thing about lauric acid is that it kills the "bad" bacteria but doesn't harm the friendly intestinal bacteria that we need for healthy digestion. Medium-chain triglycerides also kill Candida and other fungi in the intestinal tract, further supporting healthy gut ecology. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | There's some kind of correlation we can make there and assume lauric acid must be good for your body.
Lauric acid is a raw material your body uses to make monolaurin. Monolaurin is an antiviral, antibacterial property your body uses to build the immune system, and fend off everyday viruses and bacteria that the body is supposed to. Without that raw material, your body cannot make monolaurin. If you don't have lauric acid in your diet, you can't make monolaurin. That's why this is a popular food. As a raw food, if you took a teaspoon of this a day, you're building your immunity. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts | | Monolaurin is a monoglyceride of lauric acid. lauric acid is also found in human mother's milk, which makes coconut milk an excellent alternative to milk-formula foods. In fact, coconut milk has been used in the tropics to bring up very healthy children when breast milk was unavailable.
Delicious-tasting coconut oil is not only satisfying to your taste buds, but it also cleanses your colon by gently softening and loosening old fecal material, and helping to remove it without unpleasant side effects. It has a strongly alkalizing effect in the body, which is beneficial for every disease process. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Coconut oil contains lauric acid, a well known antimicrobial and antiviral fatty acid. Beets and beet juice have long had a reputation for being excellent for the liver, and in any case buying a juicer and making fresh vegetable juice on a daily basis (with some fruits thrown in if you like) is probably the best gift you can give your liver.
4. Take liver-friendly supplements.
See below.
Antioxidants and Others Also Assist
Alpha lipoic acid is a powerful antioxidant that not only scavenges free radicals and helps protect cells but also helps regenerate vitamins C and E. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  Constituents
Essential oils (borneol, camphene, pinene, linalool, myristicin, safrole, eugenol), oleic acid, palmitic acid, lauric acid, linnoleic acid; the aril (known as mace) has higher levels of myristicin than the kernel
Energetic Correspondences
• Flavor: pungent
• Temperature: warm
• Moisture: dry
• Polarity: yang
• Planet: Sun/Jupiter/Moon
• Element: fire/air
Contraindications
Large amounts of nutmeg can cause feelings similar to those of a hangover. They also can cause nausea, thirst, anxiety, hallucinations, disorientation, tachycardia, and even convulsions. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts | | During scientific tests, both capric and lauric acid (found in coconut oil in very large amounts) were found to be absolutely lethal to all major strains of Candida albicans.
Research comparing Pacific Islanders with people from several developed nations showed that their health was extremely good compared to Western standards. These Islanders had no signs of kidney disease or hypothyroidism that might influence fat levels. There was no hypercholesterolemia (high blood cholesterol). All inhabitants were lean and healthy despite a very high saturated-fat diet from coconut oil. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | The predominant medium-chain triglyceride in coconut oil is lauric acid, which has been shown in countless studies to be antimicrobial, antibacterial, and antiviral. The fatty acids in coconut oil are powerful antibiotics. According to well-known naturopath Bruce Fife, N.D. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | He also recommends coconut oil because of its high content of lauric acid, a natural antimicrobial. The only dairy products he recommends are the highest-quality cultured dairy products from sheep or goats (yogurt).
"I wish I could tell you that I see people get completely off medications 100 percent of the time using this kind of dietary approach," Brasco says, "but I see it at least 10 percent of the time. And that tells me there's a significant subset of the population who responds unbelievably well to this intervention. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Coconut oil: Rich in lauric acid, important for immune health, stable at high temperatures, great for sauteing, frying, and baking.
5. Broccoli sprouts: No food is higher in sulforaphane than these. Great on salads or in wraps. If you are short on these tiny powerhouses, eat cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage).
6. Spinach (and other dark green leafies):
Packed with nutrients, especially folate, without a slug of carbs.
7. Tomatoes: Full of potassium and lycopene and so versatile you can serve them at any meal.
8. Pomegranate: Powerful antioxidant, and delicious to boot. | | She also points out that the fat in butter inhibits the growth of pathogens, and that butter is a source of several kinds of antimicrobial fats, including lauric acid, which disables many pathogenic viruses. Finally, she adds that butter has glycolipids, which have anti-infective properties, as well as the aforementioned CLA (conjugated linolenic acid), which has "anticarcinogenic properties." She concludes her textbook discussion on butter with the following words: "Butter is definitely a fat with health-potentiating properties." I couldn't agree more. |
Michael Pollan
See book keywords and concepts |  Here's a list of just the antioxidants that have been identified in a leaf of garden-variety thyme: alanine, anethole essential oil, apigenin, ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, caffeic acid, camphene, carvacrol, chlorogenic acid, chrysoeriol, derulic acid, eriodictyol, eugenol, 4-terpinol, gallic acid, gamma-terpinene, isichlorogenic acid, isoeugenol, isothymonin, kaemferol, labiatic acid, lauric acid, linalyl acetate, luteolin, methionine, myrcene, myristic acid, naringenin, rosmarinic acid, selenium, tannin, thymol, trytophan, ursolic acid, vanillic acid. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Fife points out that another great thing about lauric acid is that it kills the "bad" bacteria but doesn't harm the friendly intestinal bacteria that we need for healthy digestion. Medium-chain triglycerides also kill Candida and other fungi in the intestinal tract, further supporting healthy gut ecology.
Coconut Oil Is a Natural Remedy with Antioxidant Powers
In his seminal book Medicinal Plants of the World, the dean of American herbalists, James Duke, wrote that coconut and coconut oil are used as folk remedies to treat more than thirty-five ailments, from abscesses to wounds. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |  COMPOUNDS
Fatty oil: chief fatty acids lauric acid (45 to 50%), myristic acid (13 to 20%), palmitic acid (7 to 10%), caprylic acid (5 to 10%), including as well stearic acid, linoleic acid, caproic acid.
Free fatty acids (3 to 5%)
Delta-lactones of 5-hydroxy-fatty acids: particularly delta-octalactone (as aroma compounds)
EFFECTS
Coconut oil is characterized by having a large quantity of short-chained fatty acids and a rather small amount of unsaturated fatty acids. It is chiefly used as a dietetic. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
See book keywords and concepts |  Laurie acid Palmitic acid
Myristic acid Stearic acid
FIGURE 4 Predicted changes (A) in the ratio of serum total to HDL cholesterol and in LDL- and HDL-cholesterol concentrations when carbohydrates constituting 1% of energy are replaced isoenergetically with lauric acid (12:0), myristic acid (14:0), palmitic acid (16:0), or stearic acid (18:0). *p< 0.001 [32]. Reprinted with permission from the American Society of Nutritional Sciences. |
Lita Lee, Lisa Turner and Burton Goldberg
See book keywords and concepts |  In particular, it contains 40% lauric acid, a potent antibacterial also present in breast milk.22 The body converts lauric acid to a substance that protects infants from infections. A number of studies have confirmed the protective qualities of lauric acid against bacteria, viruses, yeasts, and fungi.25 Wth the demise of coconut oil as the main oil used in cooking, lauric acid is rarely present in the American diet.
?Coconut oil lowers cholesterol, a direct result of its thyroid-stimulating properties. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Approximately 50 percent of the significant amount of fatty acids provided by coconut is in the form of a medium-chain (12-carbon) saturated fat called lauric acid, a health-promoting fat whose only other abundant source in nature is human breast milk. In the body, lauric acid is converted into a highly beneficial compound called monolaurin, an antiviral, antibacterial, and antiprotozoal monoglyceride that destroys a wide variety of disease-causing organisms. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
See book keywords and concepts | | Because lauric acid increases HDL-C proportionally more than it does LDL-C, a lowering of the TC:HDL-C ratio is observed [32]. Stearic acid has a neutral effect on LDL-C. However, results from the Nurses' Health Study have reported a high correlation between stearic acid and other SFA in the diet, and therefore, distinguishing
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by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Another antiviral compound is lauric acid, which is derived from coconut. Laurie acid can be used in doses of 12 to 25 grams per day during an active herpes infection.
Capsaicin-containing creams and gels applied topically are showing impressive results when applied to the skin in cases of postherpes pain (postherpetic neuralgia). These products should be applied four times daily for three to four days, then twice daily for continued pain relief. See "Cayenne (Red) Pepper and Paprika," page 471, for more information. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  A trial of a combination naturopathic protocol (consisting of multiple nutrients, licorice [page 702], lo-matium [page 706], a combination Chinese herbal product, lecithin [page 546], calf thymus extract [page 591], lauric acid monoglycerol ester, and St. John's wort [page 747]) showed a possible slowing of the progression of mild HIV infection and a reduction of some symptoms.97 Because there was no placebo group in this trial, the findings must be considered preliminary; controlled ttials are needed to determine wherher this protocol is effective.
Are there any side effects or interactions? |
David Wolfe
See book keywords and concepts |  It consists of 48% lauric acid, a substance that exhibits anti-microbial, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. All of these characteristics help to combat a Candida overgrowth.
High doses of healthy intestinal probiotics (acidophilus, bifidus infantis, L. salivarius, L. plantarum, L. bulgaricus, etc.) that will colonize in the intestines are required to overcome Candida.
Prebiotics are also valuable. These are foods that nourish probiotics (healthy bacterial flora). Prebiotics include foods such as chicory root, dandelion root, yacon root and yacon root syrup. | | Animal Fats
Raw animal fats are typically saturated, so they are not as strong in their cleansing abilities as monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats, therefore they do not directly help detoxify the body, but certain saturated fats such as lauric acid, found in raw milk and butter are helpful as anti-viral agents.
Animal flesh fats are particularly dangerous today, not only because they bring some form of karmic energy upon the consumer from the animal's death, but primarily because they contain stored toxins collected from the environment. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Use nutritional and herbal supplements that help control against yeast overgrowth and promote a healthy bacterial flora, such as oregano oil, thyme oil, lauric acid, Lactobacillus acidophilus, and Bifidobacteria.
7. Eliminate Candida toxins by using a water-soluble fiber source, such as guar gum, psyllium seed, or pectin, which can bind to toxins in the gut and promote their excretion.
Canker Sores
Canker sores (aphthous stomatitis) are single or clustered shallow, painful ulcers found anywhere in the oral cavity. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  For example, lauric acid has antimicrobial and antiviral properties and is able to fight bacteria. Caprylic acid is used to fight yeast. Short- and medium-chain saturated fatty acids like those found in coconuts are actually much more likely to be burned for fuel than stored as fat, and can be a great adjunct to a weight loss program. And others, like stearic acid, have no effect whatsoever on cholesterol, except to possibly raise protective HDL. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Approximately 12 grams of lauric acid are provided in 2 tablespoons of coconut oil, 3 tablespoons of creamed coconut, Vi cup of canned whole coconut milk, or Vi cup of dried coconut meat.
Coconut oil also protects against heart disease and promotes weight loss. In one study in which coconut oil was used as part of a high-fat diet, researchers found not only that coconut oil did not increase body fat, but that the coconut oil-enriched diet actually produced a decrease in white fat stores. |
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