Gil Carvalho on Medium-chain Triglycerides
4 episodes · 6 references · 2025
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Gil Carvalho has discussed Medium-chain Triglycerides on their podcast. Referenced across 4 episodes with 6 total references.
View full Medium-chain Triglycerides page with research, safety, and pricing →“MCTs have a carbon chain of 6 to 10 carbons and they are absorbed and metabolized differently. They go straight to your liver and they don't affect your LDL.”
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“MCTs in MCT oil are saturated but smaller, and they don't cause the same issues with raising cholesterol or heart disease risk.”
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“MCT oils can promote the increase of ketone bodies, and ketones are an alternative brain fuel.”
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“There's a number of other trials looking at low carb diets and MCT oil and things like that that also show promising results.”
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“My educated guess would be to go for the MCT oil purified isolated rather than the coconut oil... because the MCTs do not seem to raise cholesterol.”
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“They did report adverse effects in a substantial number of participants, about 48 percent. The most common one being GI symptoms like diarrhea.”
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