There have been three attempts since 2012 to create an effective, non-toxic pharmaceutical solution for Alzheimer's disease. They all failed in the tests.

A few years ago the discovery of Dr. Mary Newport who used coconut oil to treat her husband with Alzheimer's disease gave new hope to many patients. Dr. Newport wrote a book about his discovery called "Husband's Alzheimer's Disease: What If There Was a Cure": The Ketone Story.

In fact, the use of low saturated fat diets to create ketones was pioneered by Johns Hopkins Medical Center in the 1920s. Ketones are readily made from medium chain triglycerides to provide fuel for brain cells when carbohydrate metabolism fails in the brain.

Coconut oil was vilified, and margarine was replaced by butter in the 50's at the same time as the erroneous dogma on cholesterol appeared.

The medical monopoly has stated that saturated fats are bad and cholesterol, especially LDL, the "bad cholesterol", must be reduced to prevent obesity and heart disease. Since then, over half a century ago, obesity, heart disease, and Alzheimer's disease have climbed to epidemic proportions.

The food industry has managed to make big profits since then, while doctors repeat the dogma to their patients and patients have taken to it like mantras. The saturated fat/cholesterol combination has been a literally sickening affair for over half a century. And attempts by pharmaceutical companies to eliminate all these "problems" have been failures.

But those who followed Dr. Mary Newport's success with coconut oil and her husband's Alzheimer's regression, were able to successfully duplicate it very easily using the medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil, which turn into ketones for brain cell fuel when oxygen/carbohydrate metabolism fails.

The brain is composed mostly of fat, the saturated kind. Cholesterol is needed to fuel neuronal communication. It has been found that older people with high blood cholesterol levels live longer without dementia than those with lower cholesterol levels.

Are you one of those who think that saturated fats cause obesity and heart disease instead of the real culprits: sugars and processed carbohydrates?

If you do, you're in the majority, unfortunately. Even the most alternative health practitioners and writers still extol the virtues of cholesterol-lowering drugs or foods. It will take a decade before the myth is unmasked.

Those of you who are the "scientific" types who like to refute natural health articles without investigating other possibilities are further invited to read Stephanie Seneff's brilliant article on these issues here (http://people.csail.mit.edu/ Seneff / alzheimers_statins.html).