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- Title
Can coconut oil replace caprylidene for Alzheimer disease?
- Authors
Dedea, Larissa
- Abstract
The article examines the rationale for replacing the prescription-only "medical food" Axona (caprylidene) with the cheaper and more easily available coconut oil in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). It notes the lack of evidence on the efficacy of coconut oil in improving functionality in AD patients, pointing to the difficulty in generalizing the data from caprylidene to coconut oil as the latter contains a different composition of medium chain triglycerides (MCTs).
- Subjects
COCONUT; ALZHEIMER'S disease; POSITRON emission tomography; TRIGLYCERIDES; THERAPEUTICS; VEGETABLE oils
- Publication
JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (Haymarket Media, Inc.), 2012, Vol 25, Issue 8, p19
- ISSN
1547-1896
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1097/01720610-201208000-00002