Coconut Oil Benefits
Coconut oil is not just an edible oil that adds flavour to your food and makes it tasty. It is an excellent medicine whose value we must understand to truly savour it. It has health benefits and usage like no other oil ever.
Improves Heart Health
Coconut Oil has good cholesterol, HDL (High-Density Lipoproteins), and reduces the incidence of artery-clogging bad cholesterol, LDL (Low-Density Lipoproteins). Hence, coconut oil is good for heart health.
Promotes Weight Loss
Coconut oil is easier to digest than other oils and provides all the benefits of consuming an oil. So, replacing other oils with coconut oil promotes weight loss.
Metabolism
Coconut oil’s medium-chain fatty acids are easily digestible. They help improve food metabolism and provide instant energy, which is why athletes use it to improve their performance.
Boosts Immunity
Coconut oil helps improve our immunity system through its antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal properties. The MCFAs in coconut oil principally destroy microbial organisms by disturbing their membranes, thus interfering with virus assembly and maturation.
Next only to mother’s milk for babies
Due to its nourishing and immunity properties, it is next only to mother’s milk for babies.
AIDS Combat
Intake of coconut oil has increased the immunity among AIDS patients who otherwise don’t have any immunity to fight diseases.
Brain Functionality
The MCTs in coconut oil break down into ketones, which can be used by brain cells for fuel. Supplying the brain with some extra fuel might make it run better. Under normal circumstances, brain cells use glucose for energy. But because your brain is important to your survival, there’s a backup plan.
Alzheimer Disease
Because of coconut oil’s brain function-boosting properties, it is used as a treatment and even a cure for memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease.
Skin Care
Coconut oil can benefit the skin when applied to the body’s surface. It reduces inflammation, moistens skin, treats acne, and helps heal wounds. Coconut oil is easily absorbed into the body through the skin and is hence used as a base oil for body massage.
Hair Care
The vitamins and fatty acids in coconut oil help nourish your scalp and penetrate the hair’s cuticle, thereby making your hair grow longer, thicker, and healthier.
Dental Care
Coconut oil attacks the harmful bacteria in your mouth. It can reduce plaque buildup, prevent tooth decay and fight gum disease. For these reasons, oil pulling or brushing your teeth with coconut oil can significantly improve oral and dental health.
Reduce the risk of seizures
The best-known therapeutic application of the ketogenic diet is treating drug-resistant epilepsy in children. This diet involves eating very little carbohydrates and large amounts of fat, leading to greatly increased concentrations of ketones in the blood.
Prevents Osteoporosis
Coconut oil increases bone volume and structure and decreases bone loss due to osteoporosis.
Heals Cancer
Studies have proven that Coconut oil prevents (by boosting immunity ), heals cancer (an inflammatory disease) and decreases the side effects of chemotherapy. Its benefits are very promising in the case of colorectal cancer and lung cancer. Coconut is of great help in dealing with post-chemo side effects like low energy, weak digestion, constipation, dry skin, hair loss and muscle wasting.
