Talk:Lauric acid

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This statement "Lauric acid is a solid at room temperature but melts easily in boiling water, so liquid lauric acid can be treated with various solutes and used to determine their molecular masses." is unclear. Is there a wiki page that describes this process to link to? 64.81.100.143 10:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Can a German speaker copy over the chemistry sidebar from the de. article? Ec- 23:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Health Effects section
This brief section contains a sentence that is hard for a scientist to read: "Lauric acid is able to raise metabolism, believed to be due to its activation of 20% of thyroidal hormones, which otherwise lie dormant". This should be definitely dropped, as the "raise metabolism"-expression itself is meaningless, let alone the whole speculative sentence around it, including the "activation" of "20% of hormones", which otherwise would "lie dormant". 213.243.137.56 (talk) 23:28, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Would you please note that "the TC:HDL-C ratio ... is significantly decreased by lauric acid consumption (Fig. 3). These effects suggest little CHD benefit of replacing myristic, palmitic, or stearic acid with CHO, and potential harm of replacing lauric acid with CHO. (Renata Micha • Dariush Mozaffarian 2010. Saturated Fat and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes: a Fresh Look at the Evidence. Lipids (2010) 45:893–905.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter.kabai (talk • contribs) 11:53, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Coconut Oil
A Raymond Peat article seems to be the source of much rampant online linking of coconut oil to stimulating the thyroid and raising the metabolism, but without citations. It seems to further be speculated that this is the case, here and elsewhere, because of coconut oil's high lauric acid content, but also without citations. I did some moderate searching around and couldn't find any citations or hard research studies regarding any of this besides the Peat article regarding the first point, but it is vague, or maybe deliberately lacking citations, on the studies it mentions. (link to this Peat article in question: ) If no one can find reliable sources for the health effect claims mentioned here soon, these should be removed. mmortal03 (talk) 07:14, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Astrocaryum murumuru
Lauric acid content from http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com/product.asp?product_id=BUTMURU added. I tried adding this reference (which may be of dubious quality) to the Astrocaryum murumuru article but failed since it has become rather complicated to add Wikipedia references (also they seem to be handled in different ways in different articles). This is a shame since many references will not be added if it is too complicated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.227.15.253 (talk) 17:00, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

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