Coconut Oil: A Once-Maligned Fat Making a Well-Deserved Comeback For decades, coconut oil was unjustly maligned—pushed aside by poorly designed, misleading studies that lumped all saturated fats together and paved the way for widespread use of industrial seed oils like soybean oil. In hindsight, this shift has proven disastrous, contributing to an epidemic of metabolic dysfunction, inflammation, and chronic disease. As awareness grows around the health consequences of refined vegetable oils, coconut oil is reemerging as what it has always been: a stable, traditional fat with unique metabolic and antimicrobial properties that support energy, immune function, and overall health. A Fat with a Long History of Safe Use Coconut oil has been used safely for thousands of years, particularly in tropical cultures where it remains a dietary staple. These populations—despite consuming large amounts of saturated fat from coconut—historically show low rates of heart disease, cancer…

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Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, has a grim prognosis for our future: “Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise . . . [As antibiotics lose their effectiveness a] post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill. Some sophisticated interventions, like hip replacements, organ transplants, cancer chemotherapy, and care of preterm infants, would become far more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake.”Well, we aren’t as gloomy about a post-antibiotic era. For all the good they’ve done, antibiotics as we’ve known them have done a whole lot of damage to almost everyone’s intestinal probiotic population, harming immunity and paving the way for all kinds of disease. We need different kinds of antibiotics that don’t indiscriminately kill good and helpful microbes along with the bad, and that the bad bugs won’t build resistance to. Fortunately,…