LifeLike Coconut oil, 300ml

Product description LifeLike Coconut oil

Virgin coconut oil is not only the healthiest and most versatile oil in the world. It is a true miracle superfood with extraordinary health benefits and unique uses in the kitchen, even in cosmetics. Coconut oil has long been wrongly classified as a junk food because of its high saturated fat content.

While the vast majority of saturated fatty acids, from meat, milk, eggs and vegetable oils, are made up of long carbon chains and often contain cholesterol and dangerous trans-fatty acids, coconut oil is made up of medium chain fatty acids known as MCFAs (medium chain fatty acids) and is free of cholesterol and trans-fatty acids. Medium chain fatty acids are processed in the body in a very different way to long chain fatty acids.

Unlike conventional fats, coconut oil is immediately broken down into simpler fatty acids by enzymes in the saliva and gastric juice after ingestion, meaning it is not dependent on pancreatic juice production and does not burden the pancreas or gallbladder. It is therefore very easy to digest, especially for people who have impaired fat digestion or a removed gallbladder. Medium chain fatty acids are not stored as fat reserves and are immediately usable as a source of energy. Because they increase the energy metabolism of all cells, they accelerate weight loss, healing and recovery.

Coconut oil has proven antibacterial and antifungal properties, and has also proven useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes, acute viral and bacterial infections including pneumonia, chronic fatigue, and inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Of these medium chain triglycerides, lauric acid is the most important. Breast milk is the only other source of lauric acid, which is responsible for building children's natural immunity to bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. In addition, coconut oil also contains caprylic acid, which is considered in naturopathy to be one of the most effective natural remedies for the overgrowth of the yeast candida albicans.