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Virgin coconut oil, VCO in short, is in many ways a unique gift of nature. It contains 92% saturated fatty acids, giving coconut oil important properties often lost under the dusty political cloud of the cholesterol debate. Quasi immune to light oxidation and highly resistant to rancidity, the oil is functional as a safe nutritional source in most climates without the need for refrigeration or special storage conditions.
Modern researchers have discovered important health benefits and critical bodily functions that are supported by the pool of MCFAs available to the human body. Generally MCFAs are of a smaller particle size thus requiring less energy and fewer enzymes for absorption, placing less strain on the digestive system. MCFA have also been shown to assist the absorption and retention of calcium, magnesium and some amino acids as well supporting the healthy functioning of the thyroid.
The most important of these MCFAs that enhance and boost the bodies immune system are Caproic Acid, Caprylic Acid, Capric Acid and Lauric Acid and Myristic Acid. It is however the powerful capacity of Lauric acid to immobilise harmful invaders of our body, which has excited researchers the most.
MCFAs are effective mostly in their digested form or in the case of lauric acid: monolaurin. The effectiveness of monolaurin is based on the small size of the particle and the similarity in substance to the lipid (fat) membranes coating harmful microorganisms.
Monolaurin is attracted to the virus and is then easily absorbed into its quasi fluid membrane weakening it to such a degree that it literally splits open, killing the organism and allowing the bodies own white blood cells to effectively clean and dispose of the remnants.
Besides mother's milk that contains lauric acid in high concentration, virgin coconut oil (VCO) is the only other source of lauric acid found in similar high concentration.
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