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developing a product that would work Other physical improvements contin-
as an alternative fuel to glucose for ued over the course of 2 months which
the brain, which turned out to be MCT included tremors in his jaw and hands
(medium-chain triglyceride) oil, which started to disappear and the gait in his
is made up about 60% coconut oil. This walk started to normalize. About 3 to
company had researched and came to 4 months later, his ability to read came
the conclusion that the use of MCT oil back and he explained to his wife that
had improved the memory and cogni- before the words were moving around
tion on about 50% of the participants in in little boxes on a page, but once that
their study. stopped he could read again. Conversa-
tion continued to improve significantly
At that Dr. Newport had decided she and remembering the names of fam-
didn’t have anything to lose. So she ily members when he couldn’t identify
went to a store, purchased a bottle of them a year earlier started to happen.
coconut oil and figured out that her
husband would need the equivalent Dr. Newsome’s husband stabilized for
of roughly 2 tablespoons to get the about 2 years. After that time, he had
same amount of the MCT’s used by the setbacks and eventually lost the battle
company online with their participants. to Alzheimer’s. In November 2019, Dr.
What happened after using the coconut Newsome wrote the following letter on
oil was considered remarkable. her website, www.coconutkeytones.com,
Steve went from being very sluggish regarding her treatment with the use of
and hardly able to converse to having coconut oil and the overall impact it had
more energy, making conversation on her husband.
and getting some of his sense of humor “It has been more than 11 years since
back. About 2 weeks after taking the Steve improved in May 2008 with
oil, he was asked to draw a clock face (a coconut oil, the richest natural source
very common part of the doctor’s exam of medium-chain triglycerides, which
for Alzheimer’s) and the results are as convert to ketones, an alternative fuel
shown at the top of the page.
for the brain. He improved very signifi-