After several weeks of dieting, research revealed that mice that were fed the basal mouse diet and coconut oil significantly reduced the amounts of candida albicans in the gut, with groups that were fed mouse basal diet and cattle tallow and soybean oil.
“Coconut oil even reduced fungal colonization and when mice were switched from cattle tallow to coconut oil or when animals were fed cattle tallow and coconut oil at the same time.” said Tufts University professor of molecular biology and microbiology, Dr. Karol Kumamoto.
