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Quick Exercises For Inner Thighs

Quick Exercises For Inner Thighs

If you’re so self-conscious about your thighs that you won’t wear shorts and definitely avoid corduroy, it’s time to do some quick exercises for inner thighs. The muscles in the inner thighs are adductors and are forgotten by many people who workout on their own. They help keep your core and legs stable. You’ll look fabulous in jeans, shorts, and swimwear when you tone these muscles. Most exercises that work the adductors also work other muscles in the legs.

You’ve lost weight but still have the jiggle.

You now have a curvier body since you lost that weight, but you need to tone it so you look your best. If you’ve ignored your inner thighs before, it’s time for an update to your routine. Start with the inner thigh raise. Lay on your side, with your hips on the ground propping your upper body up on your elbow, placing your other hand in front to balance yourself. Bend the leg on top at the knee and put the foot flat on the floor behind the lower leg that remains straight. Slowly raise your lower leg two inches, hold and then, lower it.

Squats are great for toning all leg muscles and you can modify them to target the inner thighs.

You won’t see any jiggle on the legs of a ballerina. They normally have beautiful legs. One warm-up exercise ballerinas do that targets the inner thighs is the plie. It’s a type of squat that has a wider stance and with feet pointed outward. As with any squat, tuck in your backside as you lower your body, emulating sitting. Keep your knees right above the ankles. Lower your body and raise it. If you want to get fancy, after you raise your body, try to go up onto your toes.

Do you want exercises you can do anywhere, even when waiting in line?

Some exercises that don’t require a lot of movement. Stand with your feet wider apart, as you would for the plie squat. Drive your feet down into the ground, as though you’re attempting to hold ground. At the same time, try to pull your legs together. You can do a similar exercise while sitting or use your hands to provide resistance. Just hold your thighs apart with your hands as you use your adductor muscles to pull your legs together.

  • You can use resistance bands to work the inner thigh. Loop a band around both legs right above the knee. Do a clamshell, squat or lateral walk to work the inner thighs.
  • Do lateral lunges. Lateral lunges work more than just the inner thighs, they work the outer thighs, hamstrings, and glutes. Start with feet hip-width and step one foot to the side as wide as possible and move to a squat position, then back up, rocking from side to side.
  • A playground ball can be a tool if you want to tighten the inner thighs. Place it between your knees and squeeze. Relax the muscles, then squeeze again.
  • Our trainers can help you tone your thighs and the rest of your body, as well. Always check with your healthcare professional before beginning any exercise program.

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How To Exercise With Bad Feet

How To Exercise With Bad Feet

Throughout the years, our personal trainers at LIV Fitness in Dublin, CA, have worked with people with issues that impeded their mobility. They created a personalized workout with modifications to address those issues. Problems often faced are issues with feet and ankles. You don’t have to give up working out, so don’t use it as an excuse not to exercise if that’s your problem. There is a way to exercise with bad feet and have a thorough workout.

Running and other high-impact exercises often create bad feet.

There are a lot of reasons that your feet might hurt. It can be anything from a temporary cause, like a cut or something more permanent. One thing you don’t want to do is exacerbate the injury. Many runners experience the problem after years of the high-impact pounding their feet take when they run. Avoid that pounding by switching to low-impact workouts or modifying existing workouts. Swimming is low impact, for instance. Modifying position your position works, too. Switch standing butt kicks for donkey kicks on hands and knees.

There are lower body exercises that don’t involve standing.

Whether you’re sitting in a chair or lying on the floor, you won’t be putting pressure on your feet. Doing leg raises laying on your side is one of those exercises that work the legs without putting any pressure on the feet. Seated heel presses, leg extensions and knee lifts are a few that can be done while seated. You can even modify a plank or push-up by resting your weight on your knees, not your feet.

Get fit and build strength whether sitting or lying on the floor.

Seated leg lifts are tough and don’t put any pressure on the feet. Most upper-body workouts can be done seated, too. Air boxing, seated jumping jacks without the jump, bicep curls and many more exercises can be modified to protect your feet and build strength. Lay on the floor and put your feet on a chair or bench. Do a modified bridge by lifting your bottom off the ground and forming a straight 45-degree angle from your shoulders to your feet. It’s more of a workout than the traditional chair, so people without injuries might want to try it.

  • Don’t forget to warm up and stretch. Staying flexible is important. It’s also important to maintain motion in the ankles, since you aren’t working them as hard with a foot injury. Doing ankle curls and outstretching the legs and making circles are good exercises.
  • Always check with your healthcare professional before starting any program of exercise. Don’t push yourself if you feel pain, particularly if the pain comes from the injured area.
  • Do leg lifts seated for lower body workouts. Add an upper body workout by grasping the side of the chair with your legs extended and lifting your bottom off the chair.
  • Don’t forget about resistance bands. Even if you’re stuck in a chair, you can use resistance bands. They’re easy to use and can be part of your fitness program that you can do anywhere.

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The Best Workouts For Toned Arms

The Best Workouts For Toned Arms

Having toned arms is important regardless of gender. You may be able to cover your arms in the winter in Dublin, CA, but spring is coming and so are sleeveless shirts. It’s time to focus on workouts for toned arms so you look your best whether you’re wearing a tee-shirt or beachwear. The best way to get results faster is to do compound exercises, ones that work several arm muscles at once. You can use exercises that require equipment, such as weights or focus on bodyweight workouts.

Tone those triceps and get rid of batwings.

Toning your upper arms starts with lifting something heavy. That something can be free weights, your body, free weights or using a tricep extension machine. According to a study done by ACE—American Council on Exercise—overhead extensions worked the triceps best. You can do overhead extension with free weights, machine or even at home using a sheet. Step firmly on one end of the sheet and hold the other end taut right behind your neck to create resistance. Pull up first with one hand, then pull up with the other. Finally, end by lifting with both hands. It’s all about putting resistance on the muscle and making it work hard.

Focus on toning your arms while you tone your upper body and core muscles.

Push-ups can tone the arms, so can planks. You can do planks in a number of different ways, but the two most popular are forearm and straight arm planks. Start in plank position by laying on your stomach, raising up on your toes and forearms with elbows under the shoulders. Hold the body straight in that position for 30 seconds. You can straighten your arms, resting weight on the forearms for the second position. Also try reverse planks, walking planks, forearm planks and a number of other variations for arms.

Build your arms anywhere you have a chair without rollers.

Wooden chairs work best for this exercise, but you can also use the edge of a coffee table. A chair dip is an excellent upper arm exercise that you can do from either. Sit on the edge of your chair or table with legs extended and heels touching. Grab the sides of the chair and lift yourself, sliding forward and then down when your bottom passes the edge. Lower your body until arms are parallel to the floor and elbows are at a 90 degree angle or go as low as you can, while still maintaining control. Lift back on the chair and repeat.

  • Do a seated push-up. Lift your feet until your legs are straight in front of you. Grab the sides of the chair and lift your bottom off the chair. Hold for a few seconds then lower your body back to a seated position.
  • A bent dumbbell row can tone arms quickly. Bend at the waist and push your shoulder blades together as you keep your back flat. Your arms should be straight, directly below your body. Lift the dumbbells to the chest and then lower. Repeat.
  • Rowing machines, cables, bicep curl machine, shoulder press, elliptical and pull-up or assisted pull-up can help boost your gains and tone your arms quickly.
  • If you’re still not sure the best way to tone your arms, consider using one of our personal trainers. The trainer will design a program specifically for your needs that will get the fastest results.

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How Processed Foods Affect Your Health

How Processed Foods Affect Your Health

A healthy diet is one of the most important factors in remaining fit. It can prevent obesity and eliminate unwanted additives from the food that affect health. The foods that contain those additives are highly processed foods. Almost all types of foods are processed, even healthy ones, since processing can be as simple as washing fruits and vegetables. However, the unhealthy food normally considered is Frankenstein food that bears little resemblance to what it started as originally.

Additives to make you want to eat more.

Sugar, salt and fat all please the taste buds, especially sugar. However, these additives are often what make the food unhealthy in the first place. For example, sugar can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, acne, cancer, depression and dental carriers. It can accelerate cellular aging and skin aging. It triggers the opioid receptors, which are the pleasure centers, making it more addictive than other types of food. The more sugar you eat, the more you want and the less sweet other things you eat taste.

Take sugar to a new level and make it unrecognizable by the body.

Sugar substitutes and altered forms of sugar, like HFCS—high fructose corn syrup—are recognized as sweet by your body, so the brain creates the enzymes that help digest it. The problem is, it isn’t digested like traditional sugar. HFCS may start out naturally, but the corn syrup is so highly processed it’s not recognized by the body. An enzyme that comes from bacteria used to deal with glucose in a potato or corn that increases the fructose is added to pure corn syrup. The new sugar it creates a blend of glucose and fructose that’s hard on the body and added to thousands of processed foods. Sugar substitutes are just as hard, if not harder on the body.

Processed foods contain man-made additives, but not the nutrients you need.

Unless the food is supplemented with vitamins, most highly processed foods offer little in the way of micronutrients. Foods made with white flour have all the bran and germ removed, just leaving the endosperm or the starchy part. It’s then bleached. The bran and germ have all the antioxidants, fiber, protein, healthy fat, minerals and B vitamins. What you end up getting is nothing but empty calories.

  • Artificial sweeteners trick the body into thinking it’s consuming sugar. Recent studies show they’re associated with diabetes, obesity, metabolic dysregulation and a larger midsection circumference—meaning they increase belly fat.
  • Your body needs the nutrition that comes from whole foods. Whole foods are the building blocks that help maintain a healthy functioning body. Years of highly processed foods make you fatter, less healthy and tired.
  • Highly processed foods often affect the microbiome, the microbes that play a role in digestion. These microbes also keep the body healthy, affect your mental health and maintain proper functioning of almost all systems.
  • As food technology has evolved, people have gotten fatter. In the last 30 years, more bacterial enzymes have been used. Are these affecting weight, fertility and creating other problems, like ADHD and celiac disease?

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Is Paleo Good For Long Term Health?

Is Paleo Good For Long Term Health?

What is the Paleo diet? Paleo stands for Paleolithic, the era of time before man farmed, when hunter/gatherers were the prominent members of the human race. You may also hear it called the caveman diet. There’s a lot of controversy surrounding it. Anthropologists disagree with many of the basic conclusions of the diet and nutritionists debate whether it’s the best for weight loss or long term health. It does not include many foods that are considered healthy options for daily consumption.

The premise of the diet is that your body is equipped to digest what caveman ate.

Not only do anthropologists question whether the diet reflects what the caveman ate, nutritionists question the entire premise, that man was not created to digest legumes, grains, dairy, processed foods or foods with added sugar, salt or vegetable oil. Almost everyone agrees that highly processed food and foods with added sugar or salt will definitely be healthier, but disagree that giving up dairy, grain and legumes is healthy.

One reason the caveman diet may work so well is the absence of processed food and sugar.

Studies show that over the short term, the Paleo diet does help lose weight quickly. However, over the longer term, it’s no better than many other diets, like the Mediterranean diet. The Paleolithic diet puts an emphasis on meat, which anthropologists say is wrong. In fact, many scientists believe that only about 3% of the diet of those living during Paleolithic times came from animal based foods. However, based on several studies, the Paleo diet did help reduce obesity, which in turn helped reduce the risk of many serious chronic conditions.

Is it healthy or unhealthy?

There’s a split decision on this one and long term studies reflect that. On the one hand, it eliminates dairy, legumes and grains, which could result in fiber, magnesium, selenium, calcium and iron deficiencies. Another negative is the potential for higher bad cholesterol levels, since it contains higher levels of red meat. While some studies show it’s good for cardiovascular health, others show it could lead to heart disease. As you can tell, research comes up with few answers, but most research agrees, a Mediterranean diet is just as healthy, without being as restrictive or cutting out healthy foods, like beans.

  • The Paleo diet is hard to stick with over the long term, which means it’s even harder to assess long term health issues or benefits it causes.
  • One study compared people on a calorie restricted diet with those on a Paleo diet. While both groups lost the same amount of weight, the people on the Paleo diet lost more body fat.
  • There are studies that indicate giving up dairy can help those who have lactose intolerance and giving up grain is beneficial for gluten intolerance. Another benefit of the Paleo diet is its emphasis on eating fruits and vegetables with a mix of colors.
  • By taking great care to balance a Paleo diet, it is possible to get all the necessary nutrients, despite cutting some foods out of the diet. However, it is far more challenging and many people don’t do it.

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How Exercise Helps You Reach Your Goals

How Exercise Helps You Reach Your Goals

Most people understand that exercise helps you become fitter and is important to reach your goals for weight loss, but it can help you reach other goals, too. First, let’s look at how it helps you attain weight loss goals. To lose one pound, you have to burn 3500 more calories than you consume. Exercise burns additional calories. It also builds more muscle tissue. Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue does, so the more muscle tissue you have, the more calories you’ll burn 24/7.

Setting and achieving goals for fitness and achieving them can improve your self-belief.

It’s amazing how being successful in one area can affect all areas of your life. Whether your fitness goal was to bench press one and a half times your weight, run nine miles in an hour or lose twenty pounds, achieving your goal builds your self-belief and self-confidence. It transfers to other goals you may set that aren’t related to fitness, like getting a promotion, completing a specific task or finding the answer to a problem. That can help you throughout your life.

When you exercise, you clear your mind and boost your brain power.

Improved circulation does a lot for the brain. It improves functioning by sending oxygen and nutrient laden blood throughout the brain, which can boost your cognitive functioning. Exercise can improve neurogenesis. That’s the formation of new brain cells in the brain. At one time, it was believed you were born with all the brain cells you’d ever have, but now brain plasticity is understood and it’s known that people can boost their IQ and cognitive ability. Exercise also improves the hippocampus, which is the memory area of the brain.

You’ll boost your energy and get more done faster.

When you exercise regularly, you have more energy and won’t tire out in the middle of a task. Whether it’s mental or physical, you’ll be more likely to finish in less time. Your mood is also better when you workout regularly, since it burns off the hormones of stress and boosts endorphins that make you feel better. Everyone would prefer to work with someone who is more pleasant, so it can affect your social life and work life.

  • Getting fit and exercising builds mental toughness. Mental toughness is the ability to continue long after others have quit. Going the extra mile is often the difference between failure and success.
  • You’ll look more confident because of improved posture. It’s sad to say, but people often judge others by their appearance, so when you look more confident, others believe you have a reason to be more confident. That one change can open doors.
  • Besides your posture, exercise makes you look better. Not only will you feel better, but exercise can also trim off excess weight and help you look stronger, more capable and even years younger.
  • Exercise can help you sleep better. When you sleep sounder, you awaken more refreshed and feel better. A sound night’s sleep can make you more productive, too. It allows you to be more creative and focused.

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Reasons Why Exercise Is Good For Your Health

Reasons Why Exercise Is Good For Your Health

LIV Fitness in Dublin, CA, provides the best environment for people who want to get fit. Exercise is good for your health, so a program of regular exercise is important. Why is it important and just what does it do for the body? One of the first things it can do for you is help maintain a healthy weight. Obesity is now the leading cause of preventable deaths. It does that by turning stored energy, in the form of fat, into energy to move your muscles.

Exercise can keep you looking younger and help children build stronger bodies.

Keeping physically active used to be easy for children, but today, like many adults, free time is spent in front of a screen. Using a half hour to an hour a day for more active pursuits can make a huge difference. Your body is more than your organs and skin. It has a microbiome—colonies of microbes—which help all the systems. It offers stem cells that can become any type of cell when needed and it also has functions in place to protect the DNA. It’s a marvelous machine and exercise plays a role in all those things.

Your microbiome and stem cells benefit from regular exercise.

You might not even think about your microbiome, unless a round of antibiotics upset your digestion. It’s the microbes that are found on the skin and in all parts of the body, but especially in the digestive system. The microbes help digest food and provide enzymes that trigger many functions in the body, including altering your mood. You may have heard of stem cells, but though only of fetal cells, when in reality, even adults produce stem cells. Exercise helps produce more beneficial microbes, while also boosting the production of stem cells to help repair the body.

Exercise can help improve muscle mass.

Around the age of 35, most people start losing muscle mass. Strong muscles are important for energy and to maintain bone health. The muscles tug on the bones, which causes the bones to intake more calcium to remain stronger. That helps prevent osteoporosis. While estrogen can also improve bone health, after menopause, the amount in the body reduces, making post-menopausal women more prone to the condition. Maintaining muscle mass is also important to prevent injury from falls and maintain independent living.

  • You’ll reduce the risk of diabetes when you workout. Studies show that doing strength training for four months not only lowers body fat and builds muscle tissue, but it also helps regulate blood glucose levels and improves insulin sensitivity.
  • Exercise can help you deal with painful issues and even eliminate pain. Whether it’s back pain or arthritis, exercising can help reduce the pain. In cases of back pain, it’s one of the go-to treatments.
  • Exercise protects the cells. Your DNA has its own protection that keeps it from unraveling called telomeres. They work like the aglet on shoelaces. Exercise helps make the telomeres longer, allowing it to replicate more.
  • Your posture plays an important role in overall health. Poor posture can cause difficulty breathing, back pain and even acid reflux. Exercise helps improve your posture and gives you a more confident appearance.

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Benefits Of Zinc And Your Immune System

Benefits Of Zinc And Your Immune System

At LIV Fitness in Dublin, CA, a lot of interest in diet and the effects on the immune system developed during covid-19. Individual supplements or consuming foods high in certain nutrients like zinc and vitamin D were often the center of those investigations. Studies show that having adequate zinc in your diet can help boost your immune system and that a deficiency in zinc can make you more susceptible to illness. No matter what the nutrient is, there’s a negative effect if you’re deficient. On the other hand, taking too much can also create a problem. How do you balance it? You eat healthily. While you can take too many supplements, it’s hard to overdose on a healthy diet.

The benefits of zinc have been known for decades.

Zinc supplements can be used under certain conditions, when even healthy diets don’t provide enough zinc. For instance, impressive results come from taking lozenges or syrup with zinc in the first 24 hours of a cold. It’s been shown to help shorten the duration of the cold. Other research shows that people with macular degeneration can benefit from increasing zinc levels to slow the progression of the disease. Zinc can even boost wound healing.

The lack of zinc can affect the cells that provide immunity.

There are two types of immune systems in your body, the innate or general immune system and the adaptive or specialized immune system. While they work together, they each do different things. The innate system is the first line of defense and handles issues like killing bacteria that may have entered through a cut or forming a barrier to prevent bacteria from entering, for example skin or mucus. The general immune cells activate the specialized cells if the germs get into the body. If you lack zinc, not only does it affect your immunity, but it also alters the cell defense and increases the potential for inflammation. Zinc plays a role in both the creation and maintenance of immune cells, both innate and adaptive.

Most people will benefit from eating foods high in zinc, but a few groups might need more.

The foods that contain the most zinc include meat, shellfish, legumes, seeds and nuts, eggs and dairy. Legumes need special processing to reduce the phytates that affect zinc absorption. Some groups tend to be more susceptible to zinc deficiency, such as vegetarians, children, older adults pregnant and lactating women. For children, zinc deficiency may occur from diet. While an unhealthy diet is one cause, too much vegetable acid salts and crude fiber in cereal or too many refined foods can be the cause. In seniors, diet is also a problem, but so is reduced absorption.

  • If you follow a plant only based diet, you need approximately 50% more zinc, due to reduced bioavailability. It comes from increased phytate, iron and calcium.
  • Zinc is the driving force behind hundreds of chemical reactions throughout the body. It helps reduce oxidative stress and is necessary for neurotransmitters in the brain.
  • Nursing home studies showed administering zinc to patients could reduce the potential for pneumonia. Combining zinc with a nutrient dense diet can also slow the aging process.
  • You need zinc every day to function properly, since the body doesn’t store zinc. Our meal planning service can provide you with a diet that will provide the necessary daily zinc.

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How Sleep Affects Your Immune System

How Sleep Affects Your Immune System

I’ve seen people who get every cold and flu that’s making the rounds, yet who also eat healthy meals and get adequate exercise. When they ask for help to boost their immune system, after the traditional dietary questions, I ask about their sleep habits. In most cases, these people aren’t getting adequate sleep. They claim they have too much to do for that to happen, yet they end up spending days in bed, unable to get tasks accomplished. One of the factors for a healthy immune system that’s often overlooked is lack of sleep.

What happens when you sleep?

Understanding why sleep is important for good health requires knowing what sleep does for your body. Cytokines, a protein created by T cells, provides a strong immune response when infection or inflammation occurs. They’re created while you’re asleep. They’re also released during sleep. If you don’t get adequate sleep, not only won’t you make them, those that are made in the short time frame when you do sleep won’t be released.

You’ll eat healthier and maintain your weight better when you get adequate sleep.

People who are overweight or obese tend to be more susceptible to disease. It’s more than just heart disease or high blood pressure, it can include viruses, too. Lack of sleep affects your hormone balance between leptin, the satiety hormone, and ghrelin, the hunger hormone. It suppresses the creation of leptin and increases ghrelin. That causes you to eat more. Lack of sleep also tends to make you crave instant energy from sugar and highly refined foods. You’ll eat more and less healthily.

The body needs sleep to do its work.

If you lack sleep, it stresses your body, producing hormones like adrenaline, cortisol and noradrenaline. These are pro-inflammatory and can inhibit the effectiveness of T-cells, which stick to cancerous cells and cells that are infected with viruses. In order to be functional, T-cells require the ability to stick to cells. Sleep lowers the amount of stress hormones, allowing the transmembrane receptors that facilitate the stickiness of T-cells to function and giving more direct contact that boosts the immune reaction.

  • Not only is the amount of sleep important, so is the quality of sleep. Don’t sleep with lights on or the television. It’s especially important for older people who feel less rested after adequate sleep.
  • Not only does the stress response interfere with T-cell activity, but lack of sleep also increases the stress response. It triggers the release of hormones that are detrimental to your health.
  • To get the best quality of sleep, keeping your bedroom cooler is important. It’s important not to have too many covers. Your core temperature needs to be lowered to attain a deep sleep.
  • Just like scheduling exercise, you should have a sleep schedule that you keep even on the weekends. You should go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time every day to enhance your circadian rhythm.

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The Oil Debate - Olive Vs Avocado Vs Coconut

The Oil Debate – Olive Vs Avocado Vs Coconut

If you’re looking for the healthiest oil to use, and choosing from olive, avocado or coconut oil, you’ve narrowed your choices down to three very healthy options. All three are good oils to use and each has their own benefits and drawbacks. What it basically comes down to is your personal taste and making certain you get the oil that has the right type of processing in each group. For instance, choose extra virgin olive oil and extra virgin avocado oil that’s first pressed and cold processed. Coconut oil is removed from the meat of the coconut through a wet or dry technique. The wet method and first pressed is the healthiest coconut oil.

Olive oil and avocado oil are mostly monounsaturated fatty acids—MUFAs.

Monounsaturated fatty acids—MUFAs—are the most dominant type of fat in both olive and avocado oil. This type of fat is more stable when cooking, but has other health benefits, such as protecting the DNA, fueling the fires of the cell mitochondria and increasing the strength of cell walls. They improve and help regulate the immune system and are known for aiding in the prevention of breast cancer. MUFAs are also important for raising the good cholesterol—HDL, while preventing oxidation of bad cholesterol on vessel walls, causing blockage and lowering blood pressure, MUFAs improve blood glucose control and reduce insulin resistance, plus help burn body fat.

Coconut oil has a higher ratio of saturated fat to monounsaturated fat.

Coconut oil is about 90% saturated fat, compared to olive oil and avocado oil that’s 90% monounsaturated fat. It does, however, contain three fatty acids that are medium chain fatty acids, caprylic acid, lauric acid and capric acid. Those three medium chained saturated fatty acids make up 60% of the composition of coconut oil. Because the medium chained fatty acids—MCFAs—are easier to digest and metabolize, they provide quick energy and don’t store in the body, so they can enhance endurance. MCFAs enhance fat burning ability. Lauric acid and caprylic acid are antiviral, antifungal and antibacterial.

Are you using it for cooking or on salad?

When you cook with oil, there’s a point where the oil quits sizzling and starts to smoke. It’s called the smoke point but is really the burn point. When oil burns, it leaves an unhealthy residue. That smoke is an indication that the oil is breaking down and releasing chemicals to give the burnt flavor, while releasing free radicals. Coconut oil has a smoke point of approximately 350 degrees F. Extra-virgin olive oil is great for salads and stable for low to medium cooking temperatures between 350 and 400 degrees F, it breaks down if the temperature is hotter. Avocado is stable up to approximately 480 degrees F, so you can grill and fry with it.

  • Caprylic acid and lauric acid have been shown to be effective in fighting disease-causing microorganisms, such as escherichia coli, staphylococcus aureas, streptococcus mutans and helicobacter pylori, the bacteria responsible for ulcers.
  • Coconut oil helps protect the brain, due to the MDFAs. It helps people with epilepsy and those with Alzheimer’s by providing fuel for the brain that’s better than glucose. It’s also heart healthy and anti-inflammatory.
  • If you’re baking food avocado oil may offer the best option, primarily due to the taste that olive oil can have and the fact that coconut oil can also impart a coconut flavor. It’s all a matter of personal preference.
  • Avocado and olive oil enhance the antioxidants of garlic, onions, peppers and tomatoes and makes them more bioavailable. Coconut oil enhances omega 3 fatty acids and the absorption of calcium and magnesium.

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