I can eat coconut in very small amounts before I have a terrible stomach ache. To be fair, while we eat organic coconut, it has always been dried (nothing added), and even though it ends up soaked in the recipes I use it for, I have to be careful how much I eat. I did not have this experience in Cuba, eating whole coconuts in jelly-form and in drinking the water.
I have wanted for years to try coconut oil, and the recent thread about it has me re-inspired. I have been healing from chronic adrenal and thyroid insufficiency (almost multiple organ and gland failure), and have read so many times about how it helps very much to support the endocrine system amongst, well, everything else it seems, that I guess it keeps nagging me.
I have a european heritage (Hungarian 50%, Italian (south)/German 25% each). Being first generation Canadian-born (my parents have citizenship since childhood), I wonder if my body would really accept coconut. I would be among the first generation in my family who would have access to coconut (relatives and ancestry is rural-raised).
My perspective and my experience has been that my body will be acclimated to foods that have sustained my ancestors. They didn't eat coconut. Loads of lard, butter, and tallow, chicken, duck and goose fats, but no coconut oil.
OTOH, my food biases tend to be pretty commonly in the mediterranean vein, with the exception of the later-assimilated pasta. I tolerate almost all hungarian traditional foods, and they are sooooo delicious, but I thrive on mediterranean foods. Interestingly, I don't bear much physical ressemblance to my German and Hungarian relatives either, although I looked very Hungarian as a child, but I look very southern Italian as I've aged. Funny. It's my body telling me I need a warmer home!
It is cold here...
So does anyone have experience with using coconut oil, which personally is not traditional (whose ancestry is known), and had success? It's so pricey that I'm a bit hesitant to experiment, but I could be convinced with some stories other than testimonials in lit. from companies that sell it.
I feel like I'm missing out...
Thanks so much.
I have wanted for years to try coconut oil, and the recent thread about it has me re-inspired. I have been healing from chronic adrenal and thyroid insufficiency (almost multiple organ and gland failure), and have read so many times about how it helps very much to support the endocrine system amongst, well, everything else it seems, that I guess it keeps nagging me.
I have a european heritage (Hungarian 50%, Italian (south)/German 25% each). Being first generation Canadian-born (my parents have citizenship since childhood), I wonder if my body would really accept coconut. I would be among the first generation in my family who would have access to coconut (relatives and ancestry is rural-raised).
My perspective and my experience has been that my body will be acclimated to foods that have sustained my ancestors. They didn't eat coconut. Loads of lard, butter, and tallow, chicken, duck and goose fats, but no coconut oil.
OTOH, my food biases tend to be pretty commonly in the mediterranean vein, with the exception of the later-assimilated pasta. I tolerate almost all hungarian traditional foods, and they are sooooo delicious, but I thrive on mediterranean foods. Interestingly, I don't bear much physical ressemblance to my German and Hungarian relatives either, although I looked very Hungarian as a child, but I look very southern Italian as I've aged. Funny. It's my body telling me I need a warmer home!
It is cold here...So does anyone have experience with using coconut oil, which personally is not traditional (whose ancestry is known), and had success? It's so pricey that I'm a bit hesitant to experiment, but I could be convinced with some stories other than testimonials in lit. from companies that sell it.
I feel like I'm missing out...
Thanks so much.
