Coconut oil

[Theresa72]

Has anybody heard of healing your thyroid with coconut oil or making it better

[VulpusVulpus]

Nope. How would coconut oil achieve this?

There's no miracles or magic.

Sorry

[shaws Administrator in reply to VulpusVulpus]

See my post below.

[humanbean]

I've heard of it, but I doubt it is true.

However, a personal anecdote :

I drink one mug of coffee a day, in the morning. I put one very large/heaped teaspoon of coconut oil in my coffee. I started doing this a year ago or so as an experiment. I have also switched all my cooking to use "real fats", and I use the ones I consider appropriate to what I'm cooking. So I use beef dripping, goose fat, butter, olive oil, coconut oil. I would use lard too, but I don't like the flavour.

Since making this change I have found that my episodes of brain fog have reduced in severity, and I can (usually) think better and remember things better. Before eating more "real fat" I was getting close to putting my slippers in the oven and the TV remote control in the fridge. I think I've managed to stave it off for a few more months.

I don't think my thyroid is any better than it was. I don't have autoimmune hypothyroidism though. Perhaps that makes a difference?

[VulpusVulpus in reply to humanbean]

I'm all for good fats too. Proper fats that your body appreciates. Yeah, I can't on with lard either - smells too much *gags*

[humanbean in reply to VulpusVulpus]

I agree about the smell - it's vile. My mum used to use something called cookeen. I haven't seen it for years, but I don't remember that being smelly. I always thought that was lard. But the stuff I bought a few months ago with the word "Lard" on the label was revolting.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to humanbean]

Many years ago I was thoroughly put off coconut oil after experiencing the smells of Trincomalee. It seemed as if the whole town stank of it, and not just fresh coconut but rancid, dirty oil. Basically, it became dispersed everywhere and then went rancid - the food itself was perfectly OK.

Only in the recent past have I actually started to find some coconut products acceptable, even enjoyable.

[humanbean in reply to helvella]

Trincomalee - what an exotic sounding name! Although I have to admit I thought it sounded a bit Irish! Shame about the rancid coconut oil smell though...

[Theresa72 in reply to humanbean]

Question did it improve your hair and skin?

[humanbean in reply to Theresa72]

My skin has improved compared to how it was three or four years ago, but since then I've changed so many things it would be impossible to say what was helping. Sorry.

My hair hasn't really improved, sadly.

[shaws Administrator]

This is a link:

thyroid-info.com/articles/r...

And another with the same Dr Peat -extract plus link.

G. W. Crile and his wife found that the metabolic rate of people in Yucatan, where coconut is a staple food, averaged 25% higher than that of people in the United States. In a hot climate, the adaptive tendency is to have a lower metabolic rate, so it is clear that some factor is more than offsetting this expected effect of high environmental temperatures. The people there are lean, and recently it has been observed that the women there have none of the symptoms we commonly associate with the menopause.

By l950, then, it was established that unsaturated fats suppress the metabolic rate, apparently creating hypothyroidism. Over the next few decades, the exact mechanisms of that metabolic damage were studied. Unsaturated fats damage the mitochondria, partly by suppressing the repiratory enzyme, and partly by causing generalized oxidative damage. The more unsaturated the oils are, the more specifically they suppress tissue response to thyroid hormone, and transport of the hormone on the thyroid transport protein.

raypeat.com/articles/articl...