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The Final Word on Coconut Oil, Cholesterol, and Heart Disease

September 18, 2018 by Dr. Wade 1 Comment

Coconut Oil Comes Under Attack

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Just when it seemed that mainstream medical practitioners, the American Medical Association, and the American Heart Association were starting to actually ‘get’ the fact that saturated fats do not cause heart disease and diabetes, and that sugar, processed carbohydrates, and vegetable oils do, they did an about face and the AHA (June, 2017) came out with this information about coconut oil:

“This American Heart Association presidential advisory on dietary fats and CVD   [Cardiovascular Disease]… concludes strongly that lowering intake of saturated fat and replacing it with unsaturated fats, especially polyunsaturated fats, will lower the incidence of CVD…Because coconut oil increases LDL cholesterol, a cause of CVD [cardiovascular disease], and has no known offsetting favorable effects, we advise against the use of coconut oil…”

So what the AHA is saying is this:

  1. Saturated fats [all kinds] increase LDL cholesterol
  2. An increase of LDL causes cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Let’s talk about both of these.

First, not all LDL cholesterol is ‘bad’, although we have been taught to believe that. In fact, LDL is made up of several different types of particles, not all of which are bad or tied to CVD. Increases in LDL that come from eating more saturated fats in the diet are associated with a healthier version of LDL, the larger, fluffy particles of LDL, which is generally what coconut oil increases. Additionally, LDL has important functions in the body, delivering nutrients to various types of cells, protecting the cell membranes, the building blocks for important hormones (namely, increasing testosterone in men), and strengthening the immune system.

Very Small Particle LDL is the harmful type. So, increasing LDL is only bad when it is directly tied to Very Small Particle LDL or VSLDL. But, of course, the AHA left that vital information out of their report. VSLDL is increased by eating high sugar, high starch diets often accompanied by high triglycerides.

More than 17 studies and analyses have been unable to establish a clear link between saturated fats and CVD. And the American Heart Association cherry-picked their studies–some of them as old as 50-60 years old to use for their latest report. Tell me, does that make ANY sense?

The American Heart Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization made up of cardiologists and other medical professionals. Their mission to “build healthier lives free of cardiovascular disease and stroke.” In their 2011-2012 financial statement, the AHA noted $521 million in donations from non-government and non-membership sources and many well-known large drug companies, including those who make and market statins, contribute amounts in the $1 million range. If you or someone you know has a total cholesterol over 200, all of a sudden, a statin is now required! And you need to know that there is no difference in death rates of those who have a total cholesterol of 180 vs those with a cholesterol of 1000!

A quick look at some of their funding sources includes:

  • Amarin (Pharmaceutical Company)
  • Amgen (Pharmaceutical Company)
  • AstraZeneca (Pharmaceutical Company)
  • Eli Lilly (Pharmaceutical Company)
  • Glaxo-Smith Kline (Pharmaceutical Company)
  • Merck (Pharmaceutical Company)
  • Pfizer (Pharmaceutical Company)
  • Regeneron/Sanofi (Pharmaceutical Company)
  • Takeda (Pharmaceutical Company)
  • California Walnut Commission (incentivized to undermine saturated fats)
  • Ag Canada and Canola Oil Council (incentivized to undermine saturated fats and promote vegetable oils).
  • (More funding sources here)

In addition, the AHA takes in millions from big food companies, who—besides their donations– also pay $5-7,000 per product to gain the ‘heart-check mark’ that goes on the labels for advertising. These foods merely have to be low in fat and saturated fat and cholesterol. Doesn’t really matter how refined or how much sugar is added. Take a look at some high sugar cereals in the supermarket and you will see that they have the ‘heart-check’ mark, in spite of the fact they are one of the biggest causes of obesity, heart disease and diabetes. This is completely misleading.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but…It doesn’t take a genius to see that there may be a (not-so-hidden) agenda, as in:

…take statin drugs, eat more vegetable oil like canola oil, and only eat the AHA ‘approved products’. Isn’t that the advice that increased heart disease and created a country of overweight, unhealthy adults? It’s time to wake up.

Gary Taubes, noted science writer and author of several books, including “The Case Against Sugar”, says this:

“[T] he AHA concludes that only four clinical trials have ever been done with sufficiently  reliable methodology to allow them to assess the value of replacing SFAs with PUFAs (in practice replacing animal fats [with] vegetable oils) and concludes that this replacement will reduce heart attacks by 30 percent …

      These four trials are the ones…the AHA experts have systematically picked through…and found reasons to reject all that didn’t find such a large positive effect, including a significant number that happened to suggest the opposite…including among the rejections the largest trials ever done: the Minnesota Coronary Survey, the Sydney Heart  Study and, most notably, the Women’s Health Initiative, which was the single largest and most expensive clinical trial ever done. All of these were…rejected from their analysis.”

But wait! This is 2017, and we have already discovered that Ancel Keys’ study on cholesterol and diet in the 50’s and 60’s was extremely flawed, and the results were ‘cherry picked’ to show what his head researcher wanted to show. Keys tried to show that dietary saturated fats contributed to heart disease, ignoring the fact that processed carbs and sugar were major contributors to heart disease. When researchers have gone back in and looked at the data from all of the countries, there actually was no link between fat consumption and heart disease deaths, and there was no consideration of other factors such as smoking rates, stress factors, sugar intake, exercise frequency, or other lifestyle factors. So his conclusions were not actually even valid!

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Unfortunately, Keys’ faulty study has been followed for the last 5 decades to the major detriment of modern society.

After the world replaced meat, butter and eggs (which were staples of the American diet back when heart disease wasn’t even on the map yet back in the early 1900’s) with processed margarine, grains, and vegetable oils, we watched as populations grew obese, heart disease increased, and diabetes and other inflammatory diseases increased dramatically over the last 50 years. In fact, did you know that the first recorded heart attack was in 1921! Instead of improved health, Americans have just gotten fatter and sicker. Heart disease rates increased, even though people have been eating what the AHA suggests is a heart-healthy diet. So if the AHA’s advice didn’t work 65 years ago, WHY would it start working now?

The REAL causes of heart disease are these:

  • Trans fats (artificially hydrogenated oils) proven to be major contributors to heart disease
  • Heavily refined inflammatory vegetable oils such as soy, canola, cottonseed, corn oil, etc. Read more about healthy cooking oils vs unhealthy cooking oil here
  • Too much refined sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup
  • High intake of carbohydrates such as ‘whole grain’ bread, packaged cereals, snacks, crackers, etc
  • Smoking
  • Stressful lifestyle
  • Lack of exercise

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Clearly we are not headed in the right direction—at least if we let the AMA and the AHA (mis)guide us. The point is, saturated fat CAN be very good for us, or at worst, it’s just neutral. Many primitive tribes in Africa have subsisted on high saturated fat diets with almost no heart disease.  The Masai, and the Samburu, and Fulani tribes ate mostly raw whole milk, red meat, and cows’ blood. And the Kitavans and The Tokelau people really did show zero signs of heart disease despite eating a diet high in coconut fat. They actually started getting fat, heart diseased, and diabetic after they started eating a more modern diet full of wheat, sugar, and vegetable oils. Not only were these primitive tribes extremely healthy, they were lean and had very little disease or health issues.

So, yes, American Heart Association and USA Today and everyone else–coconut oil is STILL HEALTHY for you!

Coconut oil has been a dietary staple of many civilizations for years and years, and it provides healthy, high quality fat that benefits your health. It helps support healthy thyroid function, boosts your metabolism, balances blood sugar, and is an excellent low glycemic, ketogenic fuel to use for energy.

The ketones that coconut oil stimulates your body to make are actually the preferred and more efficient type of fuel for your body to use, especially healthy for blood sugar, and also prevention of Alzheimer’s, and heart disease. The medium chain triglycerides (MCT’s) in coconut oil are very easy for your body to metabolize, and utilize immediately as fuel, making it an effective ‘fat-burning’ fuel, that doesn’t raise blood sugar or insulin or stimulate fat storage.  MCT’s from coconut oil do not have to be broken down or semi-digested in order to be utilized by the body, unlike most other fats (Long Chain Fatty Acids) that do.

Coconut oil also contains lauric acid that helps to increase your healthy HDL cholesterol, and boost the immune system. Palmitic acid is another component of saturated fat and increases HDL as well. Higher HDL is linked to protection from heart disease. A higher HDL to cholesterol ratio is also one of the best protective factors against heart disease. Coconut oil is also scientifically proven to not only increase cardioprotective HDL, but it decreases waist circumference (a risk factor in heart disease) and decreases body mass in patients with coronary artery disease.

Coconut oil is also very beneficial to the hair and skin for a healthy scalp and to ease skin irritations, as well as being an excellent moisturizer. Coconut oil reduces cavities when used as a tooth brushing aid, and the lauric acid it contains has powerful antimicrobial effects, even on toenail fungus.

So, in the long run, coconut oil is GOOD for you, and will not kill you or cause heart disease. Yes, it does raise LDL cholesterol and can raise overall cholesterol (many studies show higher total cholesterol leads to longer lives in elderly, and lower cholesterol leads to increased death), but don’t believe the AHA when they say that you will have a heart attack from coconut oil. Heart disease is caused primarily by inflammation in the blood vessels, brought on by inflammatory, highly processed (that’s most all of them) vegetable oils, sugars, and starchy refined processed carbohydrates.

In summary, eat healthy saturated fats from coconut oil, grass fed butter and grass fed meats. Slather on the extra virgin olive oil, eat nuts and avocados. Enjoy your free-range, pasture-raised eggs cooked in butter, and savor that raw, unpasteurized cheese. Hey, the French enjoy lots of butter, cheese, and eggs and have much lower heart disease rates than Americans!  Avoid the sugar, avoid the refined grains, and avoid the processed foods and vegetable oils. Your body will thank you!

Dr Wade

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We’ve come to think that seasonal allergies and asthma is normal.
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🚫 It isn’t. Sure, it’s common. But it isn’t normal.
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💉Diabetes is common. But it isn’t normal.
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💊Taking allergy relief medicine shouldn’t be the first option. In fact, they can cause memory loss, sleep issues, high BP, mood issues and osteoporosis.
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⚖️Remember, taking meds ALWAYS has a trade-off. What are you giving up in health for the temporary relief of ____?
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😪Allergies are the result of your immune system overreacting.
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☝🏼It’s also a sign that your gut needs support.
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🦠The microbiome is bacteria and other microbes that live in your gut and other areas of your body. We carry trillions of microbes in our gut, including more than 1,000 different species of bacteria. These bacteria help us digest our food and play a crucial role in immune function.
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🧫Remember, 80% of our immune system is in our gut. So when our gut is damaged, the immune system can’t function properly.
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💦Seasonal allergies take the hit.
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🍭If you feed your body crap, it’ll be busy shoveling around crap.
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Instagram post 2141885782921600469_5670870763 Picanha! Grass fed and finished...12 lbs ready to be cut, cooked and devoured. Tender as filet and with an amazing nutrient filled fat layer to boot. Gotta have those essential fat soluble vitamins D, E, A, and K2 along with plenty of B12 and all the minerals and elements a healthy homosapien needs. At least tonight 😝. Appetizer (I like to nibble while I cook) = raw aged cheddar. Cheers to my healthy high protein/carnivorous animal-based compadres, and prayers for those still struggling with diets based on dogma. May you find #truth that leads to #health, like me and thousands of others. Take the red pill 😉. 💊.
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Instagram post 2140269178429390085_5670870763 Chunks of health for my daily protein intake.  Are you getting adequate protein? Sarcopenia as we age is common but not normal. Decreased activity levels and lack of protein are primary causative factors in muscle weakness and subsequent falls in older adults. And the reason most older adults decrease their protein intake is because they learned they need to limit their meat intake and eat more veggies. Look how that's worked out. When my clients, patients and group members lose their fat, many are surprised at how little muscle they have! "I have no butt!" Is a common complaint. Now the work begins! Fat loss is easy. Muscle building takes real effort! First you need protein. How much? At a minimum I do recommend the classic .8g/kg body weight as I find most aren't even getting that! I highly recommend older individuals consume >= 1.2g/kg with an emphasis on Leucine (ms anabolism.) Meat does the job. What about the often cited potential negative effects of high protein consumption on renal and bone health? They are strictly without scientific merit. I've had no such problems in my patient population.  For active adults, including me, I keep it simple and shoot for 1g of protein per POUND of body weight. For me that's two 10-12 oz steaks.  That's close to 2g/kg which is often used in studies. Of course I do more when super active and training! Get that meat in ya! Say #yes2meat.
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Instagram post 2139077937884874087_5670870763 Grass-fed Wagyu tri tip 8oz + grilled shrimp surrounded by some kinda zucchini getup on top of a crazy good potato preparation... My guys here know I'm a social carnivore so they gave me the full "special." I also had a good workout prior to coming so a little carb is A-Ok. Being that strict anything can possibly lead to sensitivities, I touch on a variety of natural foods on occasion to ensure my body can handle them and continues to keeps that ability. Chalk it up to hormesis. I ate 2 of the zucchini cuts and for the app I had their famous BBQ shrimp. I know there are many strict carnivores and that's fine. Some have to be due to autoimmune and digestive issues.I was strict for 3 months.  It's the perfect elimination approach. A perfect way to hit the reset button to restore optimum physiology. Then you see how you can exist and adapt to your environment. Figure out your trigger foods and avoid them...and of course, there is no reason to put sugar, grains, or vegetable/seed oil back in your diet. You're sure to experience some of this when out and about as food preparations vary. It's really nice to no longer have food/carb addictions, to be able to fast easily, to use carbs or my own fat for energy easily (metabolic flexibility,) and to partake in occasional dietary debauchery 😂. For 3 years straight, I've been fit and healthy and have helped hundreds achieve the same. It's not about belief in a method. It's about the search for the truth and RESULTS. 💪.
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Instagram post 2137628552508476495_5670870763 This is partly why we'll probably always have obesity and chronic disease. However, those in "the know" can escape the mainstream plant-based carb-laden trap... #Repost @carnivoreketocoach
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Carb addiction is real.
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Sugar activates many of the same centers in tje brain that cocaine and others drugs do.
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In some ways it is harder to deal with since abstinence is not an option.
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That is of course...unless you go zero carb carnivore!
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Instagram post 2135413196130038083_5670870763 Going to lean out a little more, so I'm doing a fasting combo this week with my fasting focused lifestyle group ... 48 hours into a planned 72 and I cook this baby for my wife. I get serious hubby bonus points for this true act of love and carnivorous kindness 😘. Fortunately I'm fat adapted and metabolically flexible, so fasting for me is now super easy. Feels great. But man, that steak! Carnivorous woe + fasting strategies = a super sapien diet and a way to restore optimum physiology ... and fast - pun intended. I love seeing the "carnivore diet" explode with more and more people resolving real problems by way of adding essentials and eliminating non-essentials...almost common sense. With remaining problems, fasting comes to the rescue and their lives are forever changed. No going back! I love it. Most tend to settle into a 1 meal a day (OMAD) or small eating window routine with a renewed physiology. What many call intermittent fasting like 16:8 or 20:4 is actually just a normal way of eating. Ok, back to roasting my own fat while I'm in some nice ketosis. Cheers!💪😀.
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Instagram post 2128892782696373858_5670870763 My witness to the fact that the 30 oz Tomahawk Ribeye with marrow butter and my bowl of lump crab meat were completely decimated in one sitting 😉... I even ate a little dessert. That social carnivore in me came out, ha! Well actually the cost of the dessert warranted a few bites.  My base is carnivore, and about 2% of the time, other substances. We're basically scavengers after all. I don't do roadkill or high meat...but I know I can if I have to 😉. .
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Instagram post 2127864602036458006_5670870763 Travel food. New York Strip cooked rare. It got in a fight with the veggies and obviously won 😉... Protein trumps fiber and anti-nutrients. 💪😁. Nice decoration. Had BBQ shrimp as an appetizer. Such a simple yet powerful approach to health. 3 years going now on a high protein and fat way of eating. Now being fat adapted and able to go back and forth between energy systems effortlessly is a game changer. Metabolic flexibility allows for using carbs or fat interchangeably...and I can fast easily. This did not happen overnight. I am part of a population that studies do not often address when determining athletic performance on various diets. I literally cannot tell a difference in my explosiveness, strength, power, or endurance ... unless I use caffeine 😉. I don't feel as good on carbs due to water stashing. I feel awesome on a pure carnivore woe. I deviate only for social and experimental reasons. Say #yes2meat and thrive. .
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  1. Shari says

    April 6, 2019 at 2:28 pm

    I had a calcium scoring in 2017 which I had to pay for since this test is not an insurance paid test. After last October not trully fasting I had my lipid panel run and my LDL, TLDL jump and my doctor prescribe cholestrol medicine. I had drank bone broth with some butter earlier in the day which my doctor did not think it would matter. Well, I ask to rerun my Lipid panel which she was concern my insurance would not pay for but it did. This has lead to me learning about our doctors are not update on the belief looking the LDL-P and running the NMR lipid panel is more important to look at. My doctor ran a LDL-A instead because she did not know about the NMR panel. I scored a 6 on the LDL-A. At is time I want have another Calcium Scoring which is self pay but was told AHA does allow it since I had one in 2017 and the ADA guildlines are every 5 years which I do not understand since I am paying for it. The one thing that baffles me is when my LDL scores when up my Trig when down. I almost do not have Trig in my blood. Back in 2007 my Trig where 26 and the last test drinking bone broth and butter they hit 32 and retesting fasting the dropped to 30. There is not much information on why mine Trig are so low. I refused go on cholestrol medication and instead chose find current reseach on cholestrol. I found Peter Attia M.D. and have learn more and information on the lastest research on cholestrol and other topics he knows .

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