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Weight Loss Through Increased Caloric Intake with Coconut Oil
"I noticed that I was losing weight, while eating more calories than normal, because of adding about an ounce of coconut oil to my usual diet. After several months, I leveled off at a weight about 15 pounds lower than my normal weight of the previous 26 years."
- Nutrition For Women
Coconut Oil, Thyroid Function, and Weight Management
"While the use of coconut oil makes it possible to go longer without eating, because its pro-thyroid effect increases the livers ability to store glycogen, frequent snacks are still important for helping to lose weight, or to prevent weight-gain."
- Nutrition For Women
Coconut oil → ↑ thyroid activity → ↑ metabolic rate → ↑ energy expenditure → ↓ body fat.
Typical amount he mentioned
"I noticed that I was losing weight, while eating more calories than normal, because of adding about an ounce of coconut oil to my usual diet. After several months, I leveled off at a weight about 15 pounds lower than my normal weight of the previous 26 years."
- Nutrition For Women
Coconut Oil, Thyroid Function, and Weight Management
"While the use of coconut oil makes it possible to go longer without eating, because its pro-thyroid effect increases the livers ability to store glycogen, frequent snacks are still important for helping to lose weight, or to prevent weight-gain."
- Nutrition For Women
Ray Peat quotes on coconut oil for weight loss
1. His personal weight-loss experience
“I noticed that I was losing weight, while eating more calories than normal because of adding about an ounce of coconut oil to my usual diet… After several months, I leveled off at a weight about 15 pounds lower than my normal weight of the previous 26 years.”
“Over the next few months, I saw that my weight was slowly and consistently decreasing… It had been steady at 185 pounds for 25 years, but over six months it dropped to about 175 pounds.
“Eating more coconut oil lowered my weight another few pounds, and eating less caused it to increase.”
“By adding another 100 or 200 calories a day in the form of coconut oil… I stabilized at a new weight about 10–12 pounds lighter than I had been.”
2. Coconut oil preventing weight gain or curing obesity
“Coconut oil is unique in its ability to prevent weight-gain or cure obesity, by stimulating metabolism.
“The anti-obesity effect of coconut oil is clear in animal studies and in my friends who eat it regularly.”
“As little as one or two teaspoons of coconut oil per day appears to have a strong protective effect against obesity.”
3. Mechanism: increased metabolism / thyroid
“The easily oxidized short and medium-chain saturated fatty acids of coconut oil provide a source of energy… and reduce the anti-thyroid effects of unsaturated fatty acids.”
“Coconut oil makes it possible to go longer without eating, because its pro-thyroid effect increases the liver’s ability to store glycogen.”
“The high metabolic rate of animals fed coconut oil reflects the fact that it doesn’t contain the anti-thyroid unsaturated fatty acids.”
“Medium-chain fatty acids in coconut oil are effective in turning off fat synthesis in the liver.”
4. Metabolic/thermogenic effects he observed
“After eating a tablespoon of coconut oil… I felt like I had been exercising—pink and breathing hard for about two hours.”
✔ His core idea:“My respiration rate increased… it activated my thyroid function with a tablespoon added to supper.”
Coconut oil → ↑ thyroid activity → ↑ metabolic rate → ↑ energy expenditure → ↓ body fat.
Typical amount he mentioned- ~1 tablespoon with meals
- up to ~1 ounce (≈28 g) per day in his experiments