The health benefits of coconut oil include hair care, skin care, stress reduction, maintaining cholesterol levels, weight loss, increased immunity, proper digestion and metabolism, relief from kidney disease, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, HIV and cancer, dental care and strength of bone. These benefits of coconut oil can be attributed to the presence of lauric acid, capric acid and caprylic acid, and its properties such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, antifungal, antibacterial, soothing, etc.
Such as lauric acid is used by our bodies?
The human body converts lauric acid into monolaurin which allegedly caused in dealing with viruses and bacterial diseases such as herpes, influenza, cytomegalovirus, and even to help HIV. It helps pylori in fighting harmful bacteria such as Listeria monocytogenes and Helicobacter, and harmful protozoa such as Giardia lamblia. As a result of these various health benefits of coconut oil, although its exact mechanism was not known, it has been extensively used in Ayurveda, the traditional Indian medical system can be used. The Coconut Research Center has compiled done several references to the scientific research on coconut oil.
Composition of Coconut Oil
Coconut oil consists of more than ninety percent of saturated fats (Do not panic, read the first to last word. May change your mind), fatty acids, with traces of some unsaturated fatty acids, such as monounsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated. Virgin Coconut Oil is no different from this. Let us a little more detailed study on this.
a) The saturated fatty acids: most of them are medium chain triglycerides, which are supposed to assimilate well. Lauric acid is the chief contributor, followed by more than forty percent of the share capital of capric acid, caprylic acid, myristic acid and palmitic acid.
b) The polyunsaturated fatty acids: linoleic acid.
c) The monounsaturated fatty acids: oleic acid.
d) The poly-phenols: gallic acid, the phenol. These polyphenols are responsible for the aroma and the taste of Coconut Oil and Virgin Coconut Oil is rich in these poly-phenols.
e) Certain derivatives of fatty acids, betaines, ethanolamide, ethoxylates, fatty acid esters, fatty polysorbates, Monoglycerides and polyol esters.
f) Chlorides Fatty, Fatty Alcohol and Fatty Alcohol Ether Sulphate Sulphate, all of Which are derivatives of Fatty Alcohols.
g) Vitamin E and Vitamin K-Such as Iron and minerals.
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