Coconut Oil Diet

Researchers believe that coconut oil, with a balanced diet, can lower cholesterol levels by promoting it’s conversion into pregnenolone.  Coconut-eating cultures in the tropics, such as Jamaica, have consistently lower cholesterol than people in the U.S. Most people in cultures who uses coconut oil regularly happens to have cholesterol levels of about 160, while eating mainly cholesterol rich foods such as eggs, cheese and whole milk.

Many people see coconut oil in its hard, white state.  However, the oil can’t exist as a solid, since it liquefies at 76 degrees. The images that we usually see of coconuts are misleading and false; especially when we are speaking in regards to lipid oxidation, which is most important in our bodies.  For example, after a bottle of safflower oil has been opened a few times, a few drops that get smeared onto the outside of the bottle begin to get very sticky, and hard to wash off.  This property is why it is a valued base for paints and varnishes, but this varnish is chemically closely related to the age pigment that forms “liver spots” on the skin, and similar lesions in the brain, heart, blood vessels, lenses of the eyes, etc. The image of “hard, white saturated coconut oil” isn’t relevant to the oil’s biological action, but the image of “sticky varnish-like easily oxidized unsaturated seed oils” is highly relevant to their toxicity.

When fat isn’t formed from carbohydrate, the sugar is available for use, or for
storage as glycogen. Therefore, shifting from unsaturated fats in foods to coconut oil involves several anti-stress processes, reducing our need for the adrenal hormones. Decreased blood sugar is a basic signal for the release of adrenal hormones.

Progesterone and its precursor, pregnenolone, have a generalized protective function: antioxidant, anti-seizure, antitoxin, anti-spasm, anti-clot, anticancer, pro-memory, pro-myelination, pro-attention, etc. Any interference with the formation of cholesterol will interfere with all of these exceedingly important protective functions.