A few years ago, Dr. Mary Newport used coconut oil to treat her husband with Alzheimer's disease. As a result, she wrote a book entitled "My husband's Alzheimer's disease. What if there was a cure? "

Is this why since 2012 pharmaceutical companies have been trying to create an effective, non-toxic solution for Alzheimer's disease from coconuts?

The history of ketone bodies.

Contrary to what has been explained to us for decades, the main fuel for brain cells is not glucose. The brain function would rather be related to the metabolism of fatty acids and ketones that participate in it. Ketones are most easily made from medium chain triglycerides.

The medical lobby having declared that saturated fats are harmful, coconut oil has been decried since the 1950s along with many other fats (margarines, butter, etc.). The "bad cholesterol" (LDL) scam was in place and it was absolutely necessary to reduce it in order to avoid obesity and heart disease.

It is frightening to note that since then obesity, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease have only increased to near epidemic levels.

This misinformation has allowed the food and pharmaceutical industries to make colossal profits by indoctrinating doctors who themselves have asserted this to their patients, patients who have taken it as a certainty without question. After more than half a century, the failure and the manipulation endorsed by our leaders and by the official public health organizations appear in the open.

The coconut oil diet recommended by Dr. Mary Newport has been applied by many people with real success in the regression of Alzheimer's. This is quite understandable since the medium chain triglycerides in coconut oil are converted into ketones. Ketones are the main fuel for brain cells when carbohydrate metabolism is exceeded.

The brain is composed mostly of saturated fats and cholesterol is essential for neuronal communication. Since then, it has been found that older people with high blood cholesterol levels live longer and with full mental capacity compared to those with lower cholesterol levels.

That's what most people think, but it's important to get away from the idea that it's saturated fat that causes obesity and heart disease, when the real culprits are excess sugar and processed carbohydrates.

This idea is really well established and even the most alternative practitioners, nutritionists or investigative journalists who talk about health still praise the merits of drugs or foods that lower cholesterol levels. Let's hope it takes less time to destroy this myth now that the truths are coming out.

If you are a bit Cartesian, scientific or skeptical about this new postulate, you can read Stephanie Seneff's brilliant article on these issues (http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/alzheimers_statins.html).