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Thanks, volgoat. It's absolutely fascinating research. I corresponded with Ms. Seneff in the past about cholesterol, coconut oil and alzheimers. She wrote this below. One of the take-aways for me was that coconut oil (organic) may possibly help lower abnormally high cholesterol or at least help the brain and liver use it. I have advised my mother who is on statins, to eat eggs and coconut oil regularly, as well as foods high in sulfur with them. At some point I will help her wean off the statin completely but until then, I advise her to eat foods high in cholesterol.

Ms. Seneff's words ...

Medium chain fatty acids (high in coconut oil) are unusual because they are transported directly from the gut to the liver by attaching them to sulfate to make them water soluble. Longer chain fatty acids are packaged up inside the "chylomicron" and shipped via the lymph system directly to the heart - so the heart gets "first dibs" on the long chain fatty acids.

The key problem behind both Alzheimer's and heart disease is a deficiency in sulfate. One of the reasons for it is a deficiency in SULFATE TRANSPORTERS - which includes cholesterol, vitamin D, the neurotransmitters serotonin, melatonin, dopamine, and polyphenols. But medium chain fatty acids also transport sulfate, delivering it to the liver and then allowing the liver to do its job much more effectively. The sulfate, in particular, allows the liver to ship bile acids to the gut, and cholesterol is a major component of those bile acids. Without sufficient sulfate, the liver has to ship out cholesterol and fats hiding inside LDL particles; hence LDL goes up.

So, bottom line is that medium chain fatty acids help fix the sulfate deficiency problem which helps the liver do its job and keeps the brain happy.