Here's an anecdotal observation from a RU-vid viewer: On the coconut oil and MCT oil issue, here's my experience with our mother in law. She doesn't have mild cognitive impairment, rather full blown Alzheimer's, having deteriorating to the point around a year and a half ago to no longer speaking but making whooping noises instead. Having read about ketogenic possibly helping I tried a quick test by giving her 3 teaspoons of coconut oil per day, thinking to do that for a month and see if there was any effect. If there was, then move on to a ketogenic diet for her. But in just a couple of days she had stopped whooping, and not long after was talking again. So I put her on a ketogenic diet and after a while dropped the coconut oil, since the ketogenic diet is more effective in producing ketones. Except that she started whooping again. So I went back to coconut oil - plus ketogenic diet. After a few weeks she was able to follow the TV and read (even though somewhat laboriously). She has been stable at this level for 14 months now with no further deterioration. I give her 4 teaspoons of coconut oil per day, every 3-4 waking hours, along with the ketogenic diet. This indicates to me that something else in coconut oil is going on as well as ketone production, which Dr Cunnane hinted at. It would be great if someone could do a study on this, as I don't think I'm the only one to have noticed the effect. @
I think my boyfriend's (never getting married but together) mom has this disorder. She was never intelligent but she says very nasty things but pretends she is nice and forgets she had a cold the week before.
