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Steve Newport's 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 the so-called Alzheimer's clock test.
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 in that you 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, keytones, which the cells easily accept.
Keytones 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 2 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 it a lot of prayer, was it the coconut oil?
And I thought, well, we're going to keep the coconut oil going.
Then 3 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 Kieran Clarke
at England's Oxford University
have developed a keytone ester that
packs a punch ten times greater than coconut oil.
It reaches quite considerably higher levels
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 is funding,
so that we could actually scale up and make it,
but of course there's no real profit in manufacturing stuff like that.
So, until a high potency keytone ester is available to the general public,
coconut oil is still a good keytone 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 Teter 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 their cholesterol
but the truth of 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. Teter 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 *** and *** 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.
Laurie Johnson, CBN News.