Steve Newports Alzheimer's disease has
slowed considerably some of his symptoms
even reversed thanks to an unlikely
treatment prescribed by his wife dr.
Mary Newport a physician who runs a
neonatology ward at a Tampa Florida
hospital she became determined to help
her husband after he failed these so
called Alzheimer's clock tests
he drew a few little circles and several
numbers just in a very random pattern
didn't really look anything like a clock
and the doctor pulled me aside and she
said you know he's actually on the verge
of severe Alzheimer's at this point he's
beyond moderate so that was very very
devastating news
dr. Newport began learning everything
she could about her husband's disease it
appears to be a type of diabetes of the
brain and it's a process that starts
happening at least 10 or 20 years before
you start having symptoms and it's very
similar to type 1 or type 2 diabetes and
that develop a problem with insulin in
this case insulin problems prevent brain
cells from accepting glucose their
primary fuel without it the cells
eventually die but there is an
alternative fuel ketones which the cells
easily accept ketones are metabolized in
the liver after you eat medium chain
triglycerides which are found in coconut
oil
so dr. Newport added coconut oil to
Steve's diet just two weeks later he
took the clock test again and as you can
see demonstrated stunning improvement I
thought at the time was it just good
luck was that a lot of Prayer was it the
coconut oil and I thought well we're
going to keep the coconut oil going then
three weeks later he took the clock test
a third time and continued to get better
and it wasn't just intellectually he
also improved emotionally and physically
he was not able to run he was able to
run again
he couldn't read for about a year and a
half but after somewhere around two or
three months he was able to read instead
of being very sluggish not talking very
much in the morning he would come out
you know with energy and talkative and
joking and he could find his water and
his utensils dr. Newport documented
Steve's success in a book called
Alzheimer's disease what if there was a
cure she received this stack of
thank-you letters from other people
whose loved ones Alzheimer's was helped
after they followed Steve's diet and
while coconut oil is encouraging there's
actually something much more powerful a
team of biochemists led by Professor
Ciaran Clark at England's Oxford
University have developed a ketone ester
that packs a punch ten times greater
than coconut oil it reaches quite
considerably higher levels and and you
can get whatever levels you want
depending on how much you drink the
problem is they need millions of dollars
to mass-produce it very expensive and so
we can't make very much of it ourselves
and what we would like its funding so
that we could actually scale up and and
make it but of course there's no real
profit in manufacturing stuff like that
so until a high potency ketone ester is
available to the general public
coconut oil is still a good ketone
source just make sure it's pure non
hydrogenated avoid any hydrogenated oil
which is the same thing as dangerous
trans fat many people avoid coconut oil
because they think it's bad for them but
it's actually very healthy dr. Beverly
Teeter is a researcher at the University
of Maryland who specializes in dietary
fats
she says years ago coconut oil was
criticized for raising cholesterol but
scientists have since learned there are
two kinds of cholesterol LDL the bad
kind and HDL which is very good for you
and is the kind coconut oil
raises so they put out the message that
it increased serum cholesterol but it's
truth the matter was it was helping the
profile of the serum cholesterol that
never has been corrected in the public
press and I think that's the reason
people have misconceptions about it so
not only does coconut oil improve your
cholesterol levels
dr. Teeter says the way it helps the
brains of some Alzheimer's patients can
be extended to people with Parkinson's
disease ALS epilepsy dementia even
schizophrenia and autism and one more
thing
coconut oil is a natural antibiotic that
also helps kill viruses like HIV and
herpes viruses but the coconut oil tends
to keep the bacteria down so that if
you're assaulted with a virus your
immune system can concentrate on the
virus it doesn't have to concentrate on
27 other bacteria that you may have been
exposed to that day
so consider coconut oil to improve your
overall health and perhaps even go so
far as to stave off life-threatening
diseases oh yeah that's good
Lori Johnson CBN News sued a lot
