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Applying coconut oil for thyroid treatment is natural alternative to improve your hypothyroid condition.
Well, it is hard to believe that just natural oil can cure the hypothyroidism.
Dr. Bruce Fife, a naturopathic doctor and a director of the Coconut Research Center, believes that the benefits of coconut oil could improve sluggish thyroid gland to a great extent.[1]
It gives you a metabolism boost and promotes weight loss.
What Causes Hypothyroidism?
Basically, lack of Iodine is the original cause of the hypothyroid problem.
However, as the lifestyle changing, the lack of Iodine is not the only one that causes hypothyroidism.
Today we find the new one called Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
The autoimmune condition causes the body cells attack the thyroid glands, as if they were the foreign tissues.
As the result, the thyroid glands become underactive, as known as hypothyroidism.
However, the underlying cause of the autoimmune conditions is still unknown.
The thyroid gland controls the body functions such as the metabolism, the body development and growth.
It does secrete the thyroid hormone to control these body systems.
Due to the underactive thyroid gland, your body will receive fewer amounts of thyroid hormone.
It results in slow metabolism, weight gaining and other health problems.
How Coconut Oil Works?
Dr. Fife and other researcher believe that taking coconut oil for thyroid health gives you a great benefit to improving your thyroid function.
That sounds little strange, but it works.
When you eat the oil, the medium-chained fatty acids (MCFAs) predominantly made up in coconut oil will burn up directly at the liver.
All of them convert into energy for you right away.
None of them left as the fat and stored in your body.
Normally this process starts within one hour after eating the oil.
What’s make coconut oil a good fat-burning?
Yes, agian, the medium-chained fatty acids (MCFAs) is the answer.
MCFAs are smaller than the other fats present in many vegetable oils that we eat everyday.
This makes coconut oil very light.
So the oil can be digested very easily.
The more fat burning, the faster metabolism and the better thyroid function you get.
Eating coconut oil is one of the most natural and effective ways to help stimulate your metabolism.
It just kicks started the sluggish thyroid glands by increasing the metabolism in your body.
And finally, your thyroid function will be back to normal.
How to Use the Coconut Oil?
All you need to do is incorporate coconut oil into your diet.
You can use coconut oil as cooking oil for a variety of foods.
Simply deep fry your french-fries with coconut oil. Or, you can use it as a saute oil.
You can also make it for your salad dressing.
Or, you can use it as a topping on your smoothie and ice-cream at will.
However, to me, I love to eat it purely.
Just take two tablespoons of coconut oil in the morning, 20 minutes before breakfast.
And one tablespoon before lunch.
Doing this way, I can feel energetic all day long.
Anyway if you never take coconut oil before, you should begins with one tablespoon before meals once a day.
You may want to drink a glass of warm water to remove the oily taste, if you need.
Couple days later, you can take two tablespoons of the oil, once a day before meals.
Or, you can take each tablespoon before breakfast and lunch.
You can make your choice.
One thing I want to tell you…
Since I eat coconut oil, I no longer have a weight gain anymore.
I never go beyond a normal range.
This is a plus of taking coconut oil for thyroid.
Yes, you can lose weight with coconut oil.
Want to Switch to Coconut Oil?
If you are on hypothyroid medication, I would suggest that you need to check with your doctor before starting to take coconut oil. Why?
Because your metabolism will rise so much after taking coconut oil.
The medication you are currently taking will become overdose, and you may want to cut some back.
Anyway, a certain number of people has taken coconut oil to treat the hypothyroid conditions.
Many people have experienced with the positive result.
They can even reduce the amount of medicine they have taken for years.
Some of them can totally stop taking medication.
Instead, they decided to take coconut oil daily to keep the thyroid glands healthy.
That’s good news, isn’t it?
If you are on the hypothyroid medication, and don’t want to take it whole life, virgin coconut oil is your choice.
It is pure organic oil without any chemical or additive stuff.
This is very much different from over-the-counter or prescribed drugs.
Remember, seek the advice from your physician before taking coconut oil for thyroid treatment.
Please don’t stop taking your medication without the approval of your physician.