Lauric acid has powerful antiviral properties.

For the last 20 years, I’ve been personally taking a product called Monolaurin, by Ecological Labs, whenever I fly.

At my old practice in PA, teachers and folks who fly for often business would buy out my stock of Monolaurin - and thank me for carrying it -  as they never got sick when their students all came down with the flu or after they we on a plane.

I’ve sent it to my son and recommended it to everyone that I know as prevention for what’s happening with this new coronavirus.   As Benjamin Franklin said long ago, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Right now, it’s never been more true!

How does lauric acid work to prevent  viral infection?

The medium chain fatty acids of coconut oil, and primarily lauric acid, destroy enveloped viruses.

Dr. Fabian Dayrit, Ph.D. and Dr. Mary Newport, M.D. have just published a paper regarding its potential to also combat the new coronavirus currently infecting people in China.

Lauric acid (C12) and monolaurin, its derivative, have been known for many years to have significant antiviral activity.

Lauric acid is a medium-chain fatty acid which makes up about 50% of coconut oil; monolaurin is a metabolite that is naturally produced by the body’s own enzymes upon ingestion of coconut oil ( lauric acid) and is also available in pure form as a supplement (monolaurin).

Three mechanisms have been proposed to explain the antiviral activity of lauric acid and monolaurin:

1st -they cause disintegration of the virus envelope

2nd - they can inhibit late maturation stage in the virus replicative cycle

3rd - they can prevent the binding of viral proteins to the host cell membrane.

Because of the antiviral and antibacterial protection that it provides to animals, coconut oil, as well as

lauric acid and monolaurin, is used in farm animals and pets as veterinary feed supplements. They're commonly used with chicken and swine.  (Baltic et al., 2017). Monolaurin has also been shown to effectively protect chicken against avian influenza virus (van der Sluis, 2015).

 

You can google it and purchase it anywhere.

Solaray usually makes a good product (cheaper than Ecological Labs).

Ecological Labs is the one brand I have always used.

It's never failed me.

 

It's easy to google and find.

Everyone can be taking it!

 

In your next newsletter I am going to be talking about a very different kind of colloidal silver, light years ahead of what you typically find in the marketplace. This brand of colloidal silver is what you want to have at hand in your cupboard. Watch for this as it is very important.