1. Richard Head Richard Head United States says:

    It has been thought that saturated fats promoted inflammation. The fats were long chained versus the short chained FA's supposed to promote anti inflammation. It would be interesting to see if these fats produced the effect by  bacteria digesting the fats into the short chained types. Coconut oil is thought to be mainly saturated fats.

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