Thread by @Outdoctrination

Coconut oil is one of the best fat loss hacks ever.

It literally acts like "negative calories" and promotes fat loss and shrinks waistline just by consuming it.

The science here will shock you (🧵1/9):

The first study in humans noticing these effects of coconut oil was in 2009.

Women were put on the same diet and either 2 tbsp of:

◇ Coconut oil

or

◇ Soybean oil

for 3 months.

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Coconut oil melted fat off the belly, no change in calories or exercise.

Simply adding coconut oil to the diet was shown to decrease waist circumference.

Soybean oil increased it.

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The next study used even less coconut oil (1 tbsp) per day for 3 months.

Once again, everything was matched - diet, exercise, only the coconut oil was added.

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Coconut oil alone resulted in weight loss and a drop in waist circumference.

It also improved blood pressure + increased HDL ("good cholesterol").

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Another human trial showed similar benefits.

2 tbsp per day for just 4 weeks showed a drop in waist circumference of nearly 3 cm.

Coconut oil seems to target the fat around the waist specifically.

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Animal studies show us the power of a coconut oil enriched diet.

Normally "high fat diets" which contain seed oils fatten up animals and make them sick.

But replacing a chunk of the fat with coconut oil makes them almost as lean as animals eating a low fat diet.

No change in calories.

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Coconut oil also improved multiple metabolic parameters.

Compared to the animals eating the normal high fat diet, those having coconut oil had:

◇ Better glucose metabolism
◇ Better insulin sensitivity
◇ Higher metabolisms

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The power of coconut oil lies in its medium chain fats.

These fats are able to bypass the regulatory step of a protein called CPT1, which normally slows down the burning of fat in the mitochondria.

Medium chain fats instead go right in with no resistance, meaning they easily get burned for energy and almost never get stored as fat.

It's important to note that not every study in humans has shown this benefit - but it's popped up enough in human + animal studies, and is corroborated mechanistically + anecdotally, to support its power.

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