Coconut Oil and Alzheimer’s with Dr. Mary Newport – Episode 656

: Episode 656 – Dr. Mary Newport joins Vinnie to discuss coconut oil and Alzheimer’s disease. Can medium-chain triglycerides (MCT’s) play a role in the treatment of dementia? Listen to her personal story of her husband’s early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and the results she had with coconut oil…

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DR. MARY NEWPORT

• Started her career caring for premies (neonatalogy)
• Now works in hospice care
  • Her husband is the reason for her transition
    • He was diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimers at age 51
      • Passed away this past January after suffering for 15 years
        • She saw how great hospice care was for those in need and so she decided to take this up

KETOGENIC DIET

• Many different conditions and diseases are being treated adjunctly with a ketogenic diet
• Cancer cells feed off of sugar
• Low-carb diets are being found to slow symptoms and help patients
• Dom D’Agostino is doing research through the Navy on benefits of ketogenic diet

COCONUT OIL AND ALZHEIMER’S

• Check out her website on this topic here

• Coconut oil has ketones which can help improve brain function
• In combo with MCT oil, it appears it can actually reverse symptoms of Alzheimer’s
• Brains essentially use this fat for energy
  • Suggests the brain is starving when Alzheimer’s hit, needs to be fed with fat

DR. NEWPORT’S BOOK

Also in the Mental Health section of our NSNG Book Club