Abstract
Alzheimer’s Disease is is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death. In the early stages, the most common symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events, known as short term memory loss. This short term memory loss is caused by the neuronal loss in hippocampus. The cause and progression of the disease are not well understood; it is associated with plaques and tangles in the brain. Current treatments only help with the symptoms of the disease. There are no available treatments that stop or reverse the progression of the disease. Mental stimulation, exercise, and a balanced diet have been suggested as ways to delay cognitive symptoms in healthy older individuals, but there is no conclusive evidence supporting an effect.
Coconut oil contains middle chain triglyceride (MCT), which is specifically metabolized into ketone bodies in the liver. The ketone body is another energy resource for the brain, which would be used in starvation or extensive exercises when glucose is depleted. I will show a case history of early onset Alzheimer’s disease with a significant improvement of cognitve decline after the intake of coconut oil that was precisely written in the best seller book “Alzheimer's Disease: What If There Was a Cure”, by Mary Newport, MD. I recently published the recipie book with coconut oil for the patients with Alzheimer’s disease in Japan. I also show in this lecture how to use the coconut oil in daily diet in order to prevent and improve cognitive functions.
