The benefits of coconut oil are incredible for humans. It's too good to believe that just a plain natural oil could give us such a huge benefit like this.
However, some people may not know what a wonderful it is. Plus, they still believe that coconut oil is one of the most dangerous oils that cause many fatal diseases due to high cholesterol if consumed.
In fact, there is a myth about it!
I bet you'll say "if I'd known the REAL fact about health benefits of coconut oil in the first place, I would have definitely used it since then."
OK. It's time to get into the real info...
With the coconut oil nutrition, it basically generates so many healthy benefits by itself. So you'll get all different variety of benefits when you consume it each time. Here are the following benefits of coconut oil you'll get.
Non-Infectious Diseases
Not only can it keep you from non-infectious diseases, it is the best natural remedy oil as well. Here are the list of non-infectious diseases which are considered as a 'modern fatal disease' nowadays:
- Heart Disease
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Cancer
- Thyroid
- Infectious Diseases
One of the most outstanding of benefits of coconut oil is "Lauric acid". It has an effective capability to prevent many diseases as the following:
Promotes Immune System: Lauric acid in coconut oil, when consumed, will turns into Monolaurin which actually helps prevent the infectious diseases in the body. Monolaurin works as antibiotic or antimicrobial agent. Unlike those general antibiotics, this one doesn't cause any drug resistance to our body.
Lauric acid is a kind of colostrum derived from mother's breast milk that is used to feed the first 6-month infant in order to get the enough immune system before the body can build it up by itself.
Fights Diseases: Lauric Acid plays a major role as an antimicrobial agent in coconut oil. It has a strong competence to fight and kill diseases such as
Bacteria (antibacterial agent) which is the cause of gastritis (Helicobacter pyroli), Sinus, Dental Caries, Pneumonia, Urinary Tract Infection, Gonorrhea etc.
Fungus (antifungal agent) that causes Eczema, Hong Kong foot disease
Yeast (anti yeast agent), the one called 'Candida albicans' that causes Candidiasis
Virus (antiviral agent) that causes Influenza, Mumps, Herpes, H5N1 disease (even H1N1 disease), Hepatitis C, and even HIV that causes AIDS
Protozoa that causes Amoebic Dysentery, Amoebic Enteritis/Colitis, Amoebic Meningo Encephalitis, Trichomonas Vaginalis, Giardiasis, Malaria, etc.
Body and Beauty Care
The benefits of coconut oil does not only take care of your health, but it also take care of your body beauty. So to speak, it can treat you from inside to outside of your body.
Here are the benefits about the body care:
Weight Loss:
Speaking of weight loss, it truly seems to be the most popular topic over the decades. Everyone desires to have a good shape, lean body and stronger than ever before.
Now you would ask...
"How can coconut oil and weight loss get along together when eating fat definitely makes me fatty?"
"How about the Low-Fat diet?"
"Does it work better than Low-Fat diet course?"
"Are you sure?"
etc..
OK. Here's why...
Due to more than 90% of medium chain fatty acids (or MCFAs) in coconut oil, when consumed, it will turn into the energy instantly because the metabolism goes directly into the liver. Therefore, no fat storaged in your body.
And, the fat storage is actually the cause of obesity. It really makes us fat.
In addition, coconut oil can stimulate thyroid gland in order to actively work better. It helps speed up metabolism rate, and generates thermogenesis. This process takes current storaged fat out of your body, and then turns into the energy for you accordingly.
Thus coconut oil can truly helps you lose weight without doubt. This is a very wonderful benefits of coconut oil that you shouldn't miss!
Skin Care:
Due to the small molecules of MCFAs, when applied to your skin, the coconut oil can be absorbed very quickly, leaving no sticky oil on your skin. It enriches your skin fresh (look youger), soft and smooth.
Rich lauric acid (more than 50%) in coconut oil keeps you well from skin infection.
And, the antioxidant agent in coconut oil (including Vitamin E, Phenolics and Phytosterol) is one of high powerful antioxidant agent ever found. It not only prevents free radical which causes skin degenerative diseasses, but it also removes the dead skin cells and, stimulates fresh skin cells to come out simultaneously.
In addition, coconut oil can protect your skin against sun-burn due to ultraviolet in sun light. The ultraviolet is also the root cause of wrinkles and premature aging.
So if you apply coconut oil for skin on daily basis, you'll really look younger than your current age! And you won't have any acne, spot, melasma and scabby area on your skin as well.
Hair Care:
The coconut oil can make your hair healthy as the following:
It treats your hair condition: coconut oil is one of the high quality hair conditioner that make your hair soft and silky.
It treats your scalp: anti-biotic agent in coconut oil keeps your scalp from infection so you can get rid of the dandruff. In addition, its anti-oxidant agent keeps your scalp from wrinkle. So your scalp becomes fresh and healthy.
It keeps your hair healthy: coconut oil absorbs into your hair very easily. Thus it prolongs the duration of hair protein so your hair always gets healthy.
As you can see, the healthy benefits of coconut oil are amazing gifts we can get from the nature. Not only we get incredible benefits of coconut oil, but we can save a lot of expenses by using this tropical oil as health and body treatments on a daily basis. It is interesting, isn't it?