Coconut Oil's Lauric Acid Reduces High Blood Pressure Study Shows

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I take a spoonful of coconut oil now and then to avoid dementia and for other benefits like smooth skin or helping with itchy rashes. A study shows that the Lauric Acid in coconut oil reduces high blood pressure or hypertension. I've never had HBP issues, but for those who have this may be of interest. http://healthimpactnews.com/2017/study-coconut-oils-lauric-acid-reduces-high-blood-pressure/

[h=2]Coconut Oil’s Lauric Acid Reduces Hypertension and Oxidative Stress Promoting Heart Health[/h]This 2016 animal study, “Acute Treatment with Lauric Acid Reduces Blood Pressure and Oxidative Stress in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats” conducted at the Brazilian Federal University of Paraiba provided strong evidence of lauric acid’s ability to reduce heart beat rates, blood pressure and oxidative stress in the arteries and hearts as well as kidneys of rats.

The researchers acknowledged in their study’s full text version that coconut oil contains 91 percent saturated fatty acids of which 72 percent are medium chain fatty acids (MCFA), comprised of over 50 percent lauric acid (LA) accompanied by caprylic and capric acids.

The researchers study text also dispelled the notion that coconut oil’s saturated fats would create arterial problems leading to heart disease by citing earlier studies. Literature from earlier studies showed coconut oil did not increase homocysteine serum levels, a unanimously accepted marker for heart disease.

The researchers also noted from prior studies that coconut oil decreased inflammation markers and increased high density lipoprotein (HDL) considered the “good cholesterol” for heart health. Prior study literature also showed the Brazilian researchers that lauric acid provided antioxidant properties. The researchers noted the oxidative stress was a key factor for creating and maintaining hypertension.

With that in mind, the research team set out to prove that heart health is promoted by coconut oil’s lauric acid by inducing vasorelaxation and reducing oxidative stress in 35 spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) compared to six normotensive (normal blood pressure) Wistar Kyoto rats (WKR). Both groups had similar heart rates.

The term spontaneous in medicine means not externally induced, such as spontaneous abortions or spontaneous remissions with untreated cancer patients. Therefore the 35 rats’ hypertension was not artificially induced. Both SHR and WKR were anesthetized and fitted with catheters for injections of lauric acid for “acute treatment” and sensors for blood pressures and heart rates.

After recovering from anesthesia the researchers began monitoring the rats as they walked about freely and ate, measuring their blood pressures and heartbeats before and after injecting various levels of small lauric acid doses. Both rat types showed lowered blood pressure and heart rates from lauric acid IV.

The researchers examined the rats’ heart and kidney tissues and observed markers of low superoxide levels that indicated low or no oxidative stress. They called for further studies to determine even more subtle biological and biochemical mechanics to see how it all comes about even more, a typical fascination for scientific types.
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11 Foods Scientifically Proven to Lower Blood Pressure

Foods proven to lower blood pressure, full article here. Some of the recommendations are beetroot, garlic, fish oil, cashews and almonds, kale, stevia, turmeric, green tea, vitamin K2 and extra virgin olive oil.

I don't have a problem with hypertension, but I do currently use garlic and extra virgin olive oil in a lot of my cooking, fish oil (NOW brand liquid lemon flavor, triglyceride form), turmeric (bulk, organic ground), vitamin K2.
 
Good article Seabreeze. I don’t have a problem with boood pressure either and I use coconut oil , extra virgin oil I’ve oil, fish oil, garlic , turmeric and kale.
Natural substsnces definitely works for lowering blood pressure.
 

I'm not a big vegetable eater and can't say I've ever had kale. How do you prepare yours Keesha?
 
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I’m a big vegetable eater .Kale normally isn’t a vegetable I’m overly found of but I purchase these large bags of kale salad . It has 7 superfoods in it, comes with Renee’s Poppy Seed dressing, dried cranberries and pumpkin seeds. It’s actually VERY good. I get these @ Costco for a really good price.
 
I just thought you all should know just how seriously dangerous it is to consume all of that coconut oil, so here is a video to tell you how bad it is, and why it is so bad for us.......
(all right, I am just joking here, but it is a great little video, funny and true.)

 
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