Weirdness with me

(Michelle) #1

Hi- I’m posting to see if anyone has some words of wisdom about what may be going on with me.

I’ve been taking MCT oil in my am coffee for months now (since mid-January). I use the KetoMCT brand and take 1 TBSP in my coffee with a little HWC. It took me a little while to get used to it at first, but hummed along just fine for a while. Usually I have MCT coffee, 2 more regular coffees and then I would eat a meal around 1pm. Lately, last 3-4 weeks, the MCT oil gives me terrible stomach pain. Not disaster pants or anything like that, the pain is focused solely in my stomach, and I feel weak, dizzy, nauseous and kinda clammy. Just plain sick This lasts for about 20 min. If I get up and walk or do any physical activity, it’s even worse, where I’m doubled over in misery.

I find that I have to eat something, like a small handful of nuts or something, to avoid this feeling with the MCT. Now, I don’t want to have the nuts!! I don’t want to have any food until my real food time. I just cannot figure out why I’m now so intolerant of the MCT (same dosage) that I’ve been taking for months.

I really don’t want to give up the MCT since I feel there are real benefits to brain cognition and health. And I do want to do IF or even EF with MCT, but I’m finding it ruff (as my dog would say).

anyone have any ideas on why this may be happening?

#2

I find that pure MCT oils like Now or KetoMCT (the one I use too) are too much for my stomach no matter how long I take them, so I always add something else. I switch between coconut oil, coconut milk, coconut creamer, butter, ghee and rarely HWC, and a large variety of combinations. On rare occasions I’ll use cacao butter.

So for me, as long as the pure MCT is only about 1/2 of whatever I’m adding to the coffee, I can tolerate it just fine and get all the cognitive benefits.

I also have and will occasionally use the Quest MCT Oil Powder instead of the pure oil, but it really needs something to enhance the flavor; I can testify that the MCT powder is easier on my stomach.

Sometimes I just want a quick brain boost and drink the MCT oil straight and then it usually settles fine provided I follow it up with a small bottle of Pellegrino. (I won’t even suggest adding Pellegrino to coffee! Yuck! :-1: )

(eat more) #3

maybe your stomach chemistry has changed and the MCT oil in “normal” amounts has become too rich on an empty stomach

your symptoms/solution sound like it’s shocking the heck out of your stomach enzymes/acids (i have had those symptoms from being too hungry)

i’ve read that mct oil is usually recommended taken with food (and not heated)

(Richard Morris) #4

You could try changing the oil for say coconut oil which is still mostly MCTs but a blend of 4 different kinds.

I worry that some of the distilled oils may overwhelm our gut which is used to absorbing multiple lengths of fats … all of a sudden has to focus on just one length of fat and that overwhelms those transports. It’s just an unsubstantiated hypothesis with no evidence. But you might want to try coconut oil and see if your symptoms go away.