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Take MCT Oil for maintaining brain health, and cognition. Start with a few drops under the tongue or in your coffee or sprinkle on your salad, and increase to a teaspoon over time. Some people can tolerate more but gradual progression in dosage is recommended. If you take too much at once without building tolerance, be ready for diarrhea and/or loose stools.
MCT = Medium Chain Triglycerides
Scientific Data
In recent years, MCT oil and coconut oil have come into popular use for people with Alzheimer’s disease, other dementias, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, and other neurodegenerative diseases in which there is impaired glucose metabolism in the affected areas of the brain and/or peripheral nervous system. The goal of such treatments is to deliver alternate metabolic substrates that bypass the problem (impaired glucose transport and insulin resistance) and may restore metabolic function in glucose-starved cells. (Ari et. al., 2014)
Ketones, which provide brain cells (neurons and astrocytes) with an energy source that is more efficient than glucose, resulting in beneficial downstream metabolic changes, such as increasing adenosine levels. Some studies have challenged the central role of ketones because medium-chain fatty acids, which are part of a commonly used variation of the diet (the medium-chain triglyceride ketogenic diet), have been shown to directly inhibit AMPA receptors (glutamate receptors), and to change cell energetics through mitochondrial biogenesis. The mechanisms underlying the ketogenic diet might also have roles in other disorders, such as preventing neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease, the proliferation and spread of cancer, and insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes. (Augustin et al., 2018)
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