4 doctors discuss why they recommend coconut oil for an Alzheimer’s & dementia diet. For more details, check out http://AlzheimersWeekly.com
Dr. Anderson advocates coconut oil for his nursing home’s Alzheimer’s & dementia diet.
He explains 3 core benefits:
1. Coconut oil is rich in MCTs, which provide ketones as brain backup fuel. This can help offset the lack of energy from glucose that is common to a brain with dementia.
2. Coconut oil offers a low-carb solution to insulin resistance from diabetes. (Type-2 diabetes is common in seniors with dementia. Alzheimer’s is sometimes called Type-3 diabetes.)
3. Dr. Anderson sees these benefits incidentally improving problems of agitation, behavior and too many pills.
Watch the comments and hear the insights from this panel of doctors.
THE CLINICAL TRIAL referred to towards the end of this video was published at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21130529
It was entitled:
Dietary Ketosis Enhances Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment.
