CAREGIVERS DISCUSS THE USE OF COCONUT/MCT OIL TO REVERSE AD SYMPTOMS

Click here to read a discussion on the Alzheimer's Association Community Forum where people are comparing experiences of using coconut/MCT oil as therapy for their affected family member.  Here is an excerpt:

I've seen the same "winding back of the clock" on certain symptoms that swarfmaker noted. My partner, who had become very calm and almost listless in the latter months before I began the oil is now again having anxiety and panic attacks like those that occurred earlier in the disease's progression.

And, as I've mentioned elsewhere, his handwriting is beginning to resume more of its old flow and openess; he is seeing computer icons and cursors, and buttons on remote controls that he had become unable to see; and his manual dexterity is improving with things such as fastening seatbelts and tying shoes.

Even though his reading is still seriously impaired, he has recovered an interest in reading and is disciplining himself to read a few minutes each day, no matter how frustrating. The mere fact that he has gained that motivation is encouraging.

His short-term memory remains the most impaired function, but even there he has remembered or noticed a few things lately that I had overlooked.