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Article: Philippines researcher finds that coconut oil may help fight AIDS.(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
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- Nutraceuticals International
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of coconut products, and the industry has recently been boosted by last year's outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, the virus which infected 12 people and killed two in the Philippines.
The reason is research into the AIDS virus by Conrado Dayrit, head of the country's top scientific research institute who, in 1999, found that the purest form of coconut oil could disrupt viruses' protective coating, making them vulnerable to attack by the body's immune system. In early 2003, his son, the Philippines' Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit, suggested that virgin coconut oil could help fight the SARS virus, and ...