The Coconut Oil and Low-Carb Solution for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Other Diseases: A Guide to Using Diet and a High-Energy Food to Protect and Nourish the Brain - Softcover

Newport, Mary T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591203813 ISBN 13: 9781591203810

Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc., 2015

Synopsis

A quick-start guide showing how to integrate life-restoring fatty acids - medium chain triglycerides (MCT) and its natural source, coconut oil - into the diet. In addition to Alzheimer's disease, this dietary treatment can be used to counter such other neurodegenerative diseases as non-Alzheimer's dementias, Parkinson's, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple sclerosis.

Dr Newport was not the first to call Alzheimer's a type of diabetes of the brain, but she firmly believes it is. Areas in the brain that test positive for Alzheimer's show insulin deficiency and insulin resistance, which cause decreased glucose uptake in the cells, leading to cell malfunction and cell death. Because diet is the most important way to counter diabetes, Dr Newport advocates a dietary intervention based on a whole-food, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet - just the reverse of the current dietary model and all the processed foods sold in supermarkets. To make the dietary change easy, Dr Newport provides six choices that can be used alone or in combination for integrating coconut and MCT oils into the diet. Then she relates actual cases, based on the hundreds of people with all types of neurological problems, which show that incorporating coconut and MCT oils in the diet have brought about many exciting changes. In fact, when analysed the carer reports reveal that 91% of people with dementia or other memory impairment saw some improvement and 60% saw improvement in memory or cognition.

About this title

About the Author:

Board-certified in pediatrics and neonatology, founding director of the newborn intensive are unit at Spring Hill Regional Hospital in Florida, and clinical faulty assistant professor at USF. Author of Alzheimer's DIsease: What if There Was a Cure?, a national and international best-seller.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1591203813
• ISBN 13: 9781591203810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320