Alzheimer's Disease is a very progressive disease that is irreversible. It usually affects people 65 years and older, but can affect earlier on. It's main symptom is memory loss, making it the most common form of dementia, which worsens over time and will considerably affect one's daily everyday life. By this, I mean the person with the disease as well as all the family members and loved ones.
Memory loss is mild in the beginning and will be barely noticeable. However, when the disease reaches it's late stage, the person will not be able to carry on normal everyday activities like eating, cooking, having a conversation, exercising, and thinking. The person will display symptoms of confusion, erratic behaviors, and worsening memory loss.
The good news is with one Doctor's research for her husband suffering with the disease, she found that ketones may play a huge part in treating the disease. This doctor's name is Dr. Mary Newport and she even wrote a book about the progress her husband was making after eating foods with these ketones.
In her research, Dr. Newport describes this disease as a diabetes of the brain. By this, the brain cannot metabolize glucose to produce energy to survive. When this happens, the brain cells begin to weaken and die, thus producing these symptoms of memory loss and confusion. If this continues on, the person will eventually die.
Ketones are another form of energy for the brain, when glucose is not available. They can be found in the medium chain fatty acids present in organic coconut oi. They will help to stimulate the growth of brain cells and heal the damaged ones. The only other way our bodies will produce these ketones on their own is through fasting and a person with Alzheimer's Disease would have to fast every day, which is not likely.
Sixty three percent of organic coconut oil is made up of these essential medium chain fatty acids, which are converted in the body to ketones. These ketones go directly to the brain and used as an energy source. It doesn't matter if the person is fasting or not, the body will use these ketones for the brain.
Dr. Newport began giving her husband two tablespoons of organic coconut oil to consume daily and documented his improvement over the next few weeks. She found that he was able to do better on the clock test, which is a test given to patients with the disease. Just a few weeks before, he failed this test, and after just a few weeks, the coconut oil definitely showed an improvement.
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