By Taylor Johnson (The Cascade) – Email
Print Edition: September 26, 2012
What if one day you couldn’t remember anything? What if the same person you woke up next to every day suddenly became a stranger? What if one day you forgot how to eat, how to talk, how to walk? Imagine the people around you: your neighbours, your friends, your future children, how would they react? What would you do for the possibility of preventing this? What if there was a way to slow down time and protect your memories?
In an January interview with CBN News, Dr. Kieran Clarke discussed her team’s work at Oxford University. In a research study they discovered that high doses of the protein Ketone have substantial effects on a brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s can be compared to diabetes of the brain. Between 10 and 20 years before symptoms begin to show, insulin blocks glucose from entering cells, which then results in the decay of brain cells. Ketones, however, can be accepted by cells even in high levels of insulin, meaning the cells are able to function relatively normally. The higher the levels of ketones, the more fuel is given to brain cells. The solution produced by Dr. Clarke and her team would cost millions of dollars to mass produce and without intensive funding, the team is unable to make large quantities.
Even though Dr. Clarke’s Ketone solution has such a high improvement rate, the major drug companies will not support the production. The costs of producing the solution are higher than the possible income produced by its purchase. In the meantime, until funding can be found, there is a lower dosage solution. A solution which doesn’t cost millions of dollars, intensive funding or a big name drug company – and finding it is as easy as going to your local grocery store. Pure, non-hydrogenated coconut oil not only contains good cholesterol (which will negate bad cholesterol), boosts natural antibodies and helps kill viruses, it also contains very high levels of ketones, the vital ingredient in Dr. Clarke’s solution. It has high enough levels that after only 30 grams per day some Alzheimer’s patients began to show major improvements. While some improvements were only momentary (patients would recognize where they were, improve communication, show physical improvement or exhibit more balanced emotions), patients have also shown steady improvement in overall motor functions and logical thinking.
Coconut oil can be substituted for cooking oils, butter on toast, milk in oatmeal or in pasta. The possible uses are endless. Patients’ families have substituted butters and margarines for coconut oil and made it a part of their daily diet, in hopes of postponing the tragic outcomes of Alzheimer’s disease. Some people have also self-medicated with coconut oil in the hopes of preventing future brain-cell decay. The symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease might take between 10 to 20 years to show; however the possibility of decreasing that risk has been found in coconut oil.
If one small change a day could protect your memories would you make that change?
