In May 2008, Dr. Newport — a Florida neonatologist — watched her 58-year-old husband Steve try, and fail, to draw a clock. He drew “a few little circles and several numbers just in a very random pattern.” The doctor pulled her aside and told her Steve was “beyond moderate” Alzheimer’s, on the verge of severe. The tremors had started. The reading was gone. The man she had married 40 years earlier was disappearing.
Two days later, after staying up reading patent applications instead of sleeping, she began adding coconut oil to his breakfast. Two weeks later he drew the clock again — recognizably a clock (TEDx: Mary Newport). Within months he was running. He could read. His humor came back (CBN News, 2013).
This is the story of what Newport found in that patent application — and why, eighteen years later, pharma’s $42 billion Alzheimer’s bet is collapsing while a tropical fat in every grocery store keeps outperforming expectation.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/p/dr-mary-newports-alzheimers-coconut