Coconut oil is also a popular type of "healthy oil" in recent years, and it is advertised by merchants to have many health benefits, including **.
Many fatty liver patients are also eager to try, but coconut oil may not be as miraculous as everyone thinks.
What is Coconut Oil?
Coconut oil is the oil squeezed from coconut meat, although it is a kind of vegetable oil, it is one of the "aliens".
One of the main reasons why we often say that vegetable oils are healthier than animal oils is that they contain a lower proportion of saturated fatty acids and more unsaturated fatty acids, which are more cardiovascular-friendly.
However, the content of saturated fatty acids in coconut oil is as high as 80%, and the saturated fatty acids in lard and butter are usually only about 40%, so long-term intake may bring some harm to cardiovascular health.
Another highly advertised ingredient in coconut oil is called "medium-chain fatty acids", which are characterized by their ability to enter the bloodstream directly and then be transported to the liver for rapid energy, and generally do not recombine into fat, so they are not easy to deposit.
But in coconut oil, medium-chain fatty acids only contain about 12%-15%, and most of them are still long-chain fatty acids, so the benefits of medium-chain fatty acids are not the same as the benefits of coconut oil.
In a large number of studies on coconut oil, coconut oil has not shown obvious "**hypolipidemic" effect, and even observed increased levels of serum triglycerides, total cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol.
Based on the available evidence, coconut oil does not bring special benefits to the improvement of fatty liver, and coconut oil itself is still fat, with high-calorie characteristics, if you consume a certain amount of coconut oil every day, it will increase the total calories in the diet, and is not conducive to the recovery of the disease.
If you want to improve fatty liver, the most important thing is to adjust the overall diet structure, with an appropriate amount of exercise, if the degree of fatty liver is severe, has caused liver damage, etc., you need to seek medical help in time, do not believe in folk propaganda.