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The health benefits of coconut oil just keep coming to light. From using it to prevent balding hair to using it as toothpaste and a facial scrub, the applications for coconut oil are never-ending. While it can work wonders as a beauty product, the benefits of eating just two tablespoons of coconut oil daily will have you running to the store to stock your cabinets with it, if you haven’t already!

Here are five great reasons to eat coconut oil daily:

1. Coconut Oil Can Help You Lose Weight

While most people are in a caloric deficit state when trying to lose weight, the foods that they’re eating still matter, even if they stay within their calorie limit. Coconut oil is a great healthy fat option to aid in weight loss.

Yes, coconut oil is a fat. But it’s a good fat. It consists almost entirely of medium-chain fatty acids (MCTs) that give your metabolism a boost. Coconut oil is also more thermogenic than many other foods, so eating it can increase energy expenditure and help you burn more calories.

Maintaining healthy organs is key to losing weight right. Coconut oil helps to protect your liver, allowing your thyroid to function at a higher level. Whether you’re just kicking off you’re weight loss journey or you’re mid-way through it, you’ll want to incorporate coconut oil into your daily routine.

2. Coconut Oil is Pro-Health and Anti-Everything Bad!

Coconut oil not only tops the list of anti-inflammatory foods. Its health benefits go much further:

  • Anti-bacterial – stops harmful bacteria and infections dead in their tracks
  • Anti-carcinogenic – boosts immunity and keeps cancer cells from spreading
  • Anti-fungal – destroys fungus and yeast that lead to infections
  • Anti-inflammatory – repairs tissue while suppressing inflammation
  • Anti-microbial – fights infection and inactivates harmful microbes
  • Anti-oxidant – protects against damage from free radicals
  • Anti-retroviral/parasitic/protozoa/viral – rids the body of lice, and parasites such as tapeworms; kills infection in the gut, destroys viruses that cause influenza, herpes, measles, hepatitis and more

Just two tablespoons a day of this superfood can help protect you from disease and infection, and keep your body healthy and happy!

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3. Coconut Oil Stabilizes Blood Sugar and Insulin Levels

Although it is a fat, coconut oil can indirectly help control blood sugar and insulin levels. It helps glucose enter your cells, slowing and reducing insulin levels in the blood. The healthy fat in coconut oil slows the digestive process to allow for a steady stream of energy from your food.

Other vegetable oils such as soybean, corn and canola oils are made up of long-chain fatty acids which can actually decrease the cells’ ability to absorb blood sugar, and aggravate diabetes or insulin resistance. This is why doctors typically recommend a low-fat diet for diabetics. Coconut oil, consisting of medium-chain fatty acids, is the exception.

4. Coconut Oil Lowers Your Risk of Heart Disease

Populations that consume coconut oil have been found to be some of the most heart-healthy. A study done on people in Papua New Guinea (who thrive on coconut oil and other coconut foods) found no signs of stroke or heart attack in the study’s participants, while a study done on Polynesians, who consume over 60% of their total calories from coconut, also showed participants to be in great health, with no evidence of heart disease. Unlike polyunsaturated fatty acid oils, coconut oil does not cause arterial damage. Instead, it helps to lower risk of heart disease and other heart problems.

5. Coconut Oil Kills Candida Fungus

If you haven’t heard of Candida, you can read about it here. It’s a fungus that spreads throughout the blood stream and shows itself in many different forms, and it is estimated that one out of three Americans is affected by it. There are a variety of causes, from birth control or stress to a diet high in sugar. Candida can be the reason a person is unable to sleep, unable to lose weight or unable to reduce their stress level. Coconut oil helps to fight the rampant fungus and stop it before it spreads!

Check out the video below for more info on the many benefits of adding coconut oil daily to your diet!

ht/: the hearty soul

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15 Responses

  1. Crystal Mondor

    is there any research that suggest what is the best itme of day to eat coconut oil? is it best first thing in the morning on an empty stomach? or just before bed? I am very curious about how to get the most out of this, especially in regards to wiping out candida.

    • Kelvin

      Should be consumed just as your Shakras are aligned (with Wolfe’s chocolate) planetarily with the Sun, and the mushrooms are jetting off to space… But at all costs, leave the salt in the oceans, otherwise the waste will join the mushrooms on their space odyssey!
      Or I could just be talking arse, like our heroic Mr Wolfe.

        • Kelvin

          About as helpful as suggesting ingesting two spoonfuls of saturated fat daily. Tell you what, you take your medical advice from this nut job – doesn’t matter what time of day you take it, same result: watch your cholesterol level hit the roof…

          • Crystal Mondor

            hey jerk.. if you hate the information and you hate the guy and you hate the website why are you here?? before you start being rude to strangers, you ought to do some research…here’s a mini lesson for ya. there are good fats and there are bad fats (ie coconut oil and avocados vs beef and sugary buttery cake) good fats raise your good cholesterol levels and bad fats raise your bad cholesterol levels. there are plenty of studies that have shown that good fats actually help with high cholesterol. ive done my research. do yours.

    • NoMoreRINOs

      Buy at Trader Joe’s, right off the shelf. It Is inexpensive compared to all of the brands offered on the internet and can be purchased (any day) by just going to one of their stores near you.

  3. Claudia H. Blanton

    This is so very true! Did you know that coconut oil is also great for dogs? A great way to make sure their skin stays healthy, especially with dogs who are prone to allergies! Blessings!

  4. Michaelia Moore

    When’s the best time to consume the coconut oil- in the morning on an empty stomach or a little while after breakfast or at night when going to bed? (I’ve been doing a lot research on coconut oil and some other stuff lately)

    • moondance

      I have been eating a little more than a tbsp first thing in the morning for a week now and have noticed some interesting things without changing anything else. I get a stomach ache, which I consider good because I know I have been fighting something nasty for a while now and I know it is killing the bad bacteria in my gut. I get sick all the time and I’ve had it so I’m adding CO first to see what I experience. I also have not been so hungry, and I am almost insatiable ALL THE TIME. My skin is getting softer, and most notably -I am cleaning out every morning. I have always struggles with severe constipation, to the point part of my small intestine shut down and was paralyzed. Doctors were recommending surgery, but I told them no and changed my diet and got it moving again! I was using CO for cooking a lot at that time, so decided for my most recent (bettering of myself,) that I would incorporate CO as a primary component in my regimen. I digress, but I am glad to say I am um, quite regular for the first time in my life in just a week. Hope this helps! BTW, I highly recommend Kirkland Signature organic, unrefined CO, the deal they have on amazon for the big tub is the best deal you will find!!

        • moondance

          Yep! I do have a hard time with the consistency tho, but swishing it around a little until it melts makes it okay for me. I would probably begin with one tbsp in the morning and don’t drink water or anything directly after as to not dilute it and let it do its work. It seriously does give me a stomach ache though to warn you, but I know it’s because I am fighting candida and who knows what else.

          • Michaelia Moore

            Sorry to hear that. Man…these bodies we have, we really have to try to take care of them. They’re our vessels that belong to the Lord. And we keep going overboard with bad eating habits. So is it fighting the candida?

          • moondance

            I’m confident that it is as I’m noticing the white film on my tongue is disappearing as well as a few other signs of candida die off. And you’re right, too many of us trash our bodies, which I have been guilty of for sure. Determined to stick to this and will try t remember to post progress for you. I used to oil pill with good success too. Did that for about a year actually.

  5. Daniel Borelli

    Iv’e heard that a couple of tablespoons in coffee will aid in constipation, on my third day of trying it. It tastes great in coffee but negative results on the plumbing issue…..:(

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