Sabtu, 29 Oktober 2011

If you're looking for a technique to enhance your skin, try eating a coconut for pudding

By Diller Combson


We don't often think about our desserts being healing, but they can be. Instead of eating a Twinkie or something with no calorific value, try eating a coconut for pudding instead. Or if you don't like eating coconuts plain, try making a dessert with coconut as an ingredient like macaroons or coconut cream pie. What's so excellent about the coconut? Well for a start, it's piled high with lauric acid and myristic acid, 2 trans-acids that are amazing for your skin. You can pudding into something more than a meal which will add fat on your thighs. Now it can actually be justified as a medical therapy. And who knew that lauric acid and skin were so interlinked?

Lauric Acid and Skin

What is Lauric Acid?

Lauric acid is a saturated fatty acid with a lipid number C12. Because there are no double bonds in this greasy acid, it can last a while without going rancid. In the body lauric acid is converted into a substance called monolaurin. Monolaurin has antifungal, antiviral, anti-microbe and antiprotozoal properties. It operates by a mechanism whereby it disrupts the lipid membranes in foreign organisms such as viruses, fungus and bacteria. While monolaurin kills off these undesired organisms, it is completely harmless to humans and to our standard working tissues.

How does Lauric Acid Help Our Skin?

Lauric acid is a great moisturizer for the skin and it can reduce redness and flaking of skin with no unfavourable complications. It is also superb for fighting skin diseases and its use in fighting acne is being explored.



What Oils are High in Lauric Acid?

Lauric acid is present in high percentages in coconut oil and palm kernel oil, but otherwise is reasonably rare in nature. The only other place we all know it happens is in mother's milk, and it comprises 6.2% of human mother's milk, in opposition to 3% of goat and cow's milk. Scientists accept that lauric acid's presence in milk may be down to its anti-microbe activity. This might be one way that mothers fortify their babies immune systems.

Some of the oils high in Lauric acid include:

**Coconut oil (48%) Has a life-span of about 2 years

**Palm kernel oil (48%) Has a life-span of about 1-2 years

Myristic Acid and Skin

What's Myristic Acid?

Myrisitic acid is a saturated greasy acid with the lipid number C14.

How does Myristic Acid Help Our Skin?

Myristic acid is easily absorbed by our skin and acts a lubricator and an anti inflammatory. It helps fix the skin barrier and increases moisture and hydration. There is some evidence that myristic acid can help with flaky skin by signaling epidermis cells when it's time to stop growing.

What Oils are High in Myristic Acid?

Myristic acid is in nutmeg, coconuts, palm kernels and in spermacetin, the oil from the sperm whale.

Some of the oils high in Myristic acid include:

**Coconut oil (48%) Has a life-span of approximately 2 years

**Palm kernel oil (48%) Has a life-span of about 1-2 years.




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