A God Gift for Humans helthy life - Virgin coconut Oils Part 1

HEALTH OILS FROM THE TREE OF LIFE
(NUTRITIONAL AND HEALTH ASPECTS OF COCONUT OIL)
By
Jon J. Kabara, Ph.D. *

Abstract
The palm tree has a long history of providing man with useful materials for
his daily life. None is more important than the oils obtained from the palm nut.
Coconut and palm kernel oils were recognized as health oils in Ayurvedic
medicine almost 4000 years ago. The same health effects were also found in
Sanskrit medicine for mother’s milk. Mention was made that freshly expressed
human milk was adopted as an "antibiotic" after eye surgery. Modern research has
now found a common link between these two natural health products----their fat or
lipid content. For over thirty years our lipid laboratory has pioneered finding
relationships between natural and synthetic lipids and their biological activity. Our
studies indicated that the fatty acids and monoglycerides found in these two
natural products had extraordinary antimicrobial. properties. Over a period of 30
years my colleagues and I screened other lipids hoping too improve on nature.
During this period we screened some 300 lipids and other structures for
antimicrobial activity. We failed and so I returned to nature for clues. The
medium chain fatty acids and monoglycerides found primarily in these two
tropical oils and mothers milk have miraculous healing power. It is rare in the
history of medicine to find substances that have such useful properties and still be
without toxicity or even harmful side effects. My students and I then vigorously
pursued the industrial and medical application of the most active species,
monolaurin. The highly purified monoglyceride is better known as Lauricidin®
rather than simply monolaurin since the usual commercial monolaurin is only 45-
55% pure and has no antimicrobial properties. The first utilization of monolaurin
was the incorporation into margarine as a food preservative and then into a
sanitizer for the prevention of bovine mastitis.

coutresy from : Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and Consultant to Private
Industries, Universities and Government Agencies, Galena, Illinois, USA

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