I am guessing it is junk science.
There are many well-known dietary differences between animals and humans. For example the sugar xylitol is very good for humans and kills dogs.
I am human, and use extra-virgin coconut oil extensively as part of my diet. Over the past 3 years I’ve managed to lose over 50 pounds, with improved health. Dietary experiments of a common human food on mice are inherently suspicious and untrustworthy.
The dose is the poison.
A 50lb loss over 3 years and on a diet you can easily live with w/o boomerang = Success!
Your reasoning and mine are similar…
I have read that cholesterol research was in some studies done using rabbits. And, me being a country girl who knew that rabbits ate grasses and greens, wondered why it didn’t occur to those researchers that feeding animal fats to herbivores might invalidate their conclusion that animal fats weren’t good for humans.
Furthermore, if we humans had been eating eating animal fats for thousands of years before machines were invented that could manufacture seed and vegetable oils, and managed to hunt, reproduce, and thrive on fatty meats, why all of a sudden were these fatty meats suddenly going to kill us rall off?
This could be rubbish “science. I don’t care all that much about coconut oil. I prefer butter, bacon fat, tallow, and poultry fat.
But others whose ancestry may be farther south than the Scottish highlands, Northern Europe might prefer olive oil or coconut oil. But my thoughts are that these should not be used along with the diet adopted in the last 150 years, which is poisoning us all slowly.
Eat the way your ancestors did back before modern food, and the way they would have eaten when food was plentiful. We all know that when starvation came upon the land, we humans ate whatever we could, even though it wasn’t as good for us as the fat of the land…
Interesting. I weigh 110, so don’t care about weight gain. I use organic coconut oil as a skin moisturizer. So does my niece, but she also cooks eggs in it.