Lauricidin Monolaurin Testimonials, Comments and Feedback

Lauricidin (aka: Monolaurin) or Coconut Oil is a product that people are finding for sale on the internet and ordering online in an attempt to treat herpes simplex virus. If you have tried Lauricidin for herpes outbreaks please share your positive or negative experiences about that product for posting on this feedback page. Send me your comments and feedback along with your blessing to post on the site. All names and e-mail addresses will be kept confidential.

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   If you do a google search on "lauricidin" you will find various resources that say monolaurin has some sort of impact on dental care, peptic ulcers, benign prostrate enlargements in men, genital herpes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS. It is also stated on various sites that monolaurin is an important fat found in mother's milk. Interestingly enough, if you go to the Food and Drug Administration site and do a search for "monolaurin herpes" you will find a warning letter that addresses false claims found via one of the sites and you can probably bet there are other sites that make these same false claims:

• "Initial trials have confirmed that coconut oil does have an anti-viral effect and can beneficially reduce the viral load of HIV patients . . . ." (quoting Dr. Conrato S. Dayrit)

• "To read more about fungal infections like Candida, and how coconut oil can help...."

• "Coconut oil is converted by the body into "Monolaurin" a fatty acid with anti-viral properties that might be useful in the treatment of AIDS:"

• "The antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal properties of the medium chain fatty acids/triglycerides (MCTs) found in coconut oil have been known to researchers since the 1960s."

• "Much of the recent research done on coconut oil and lauric acid, the most predominant fatty acid chain found in coconut oil, has centered around the antimicrobial and anti-viral properties of this unique fatty acid. . . . When lauric acid is consumed in the diet, . . . lauric acid forms a monoglyceride called monolaurin, which has been shown to destroy several bacteria and viruses, including listeria monocytogenes and helicobacter pylori, and protozoa such as giardia lamblia. Some of the viruses that have been destroyed by monolaurin include HIV, measles, herpes simplex virus-1, vesicular stomatitis virus, influenza and cytomegalovirus."

If anybody tells you that Lauricidin, Monolaurin or Coconut Oil is beneficial in treating herpes simplex outbreaks or suppressing the herpes simplex virus - I would insist on making sure that they show you some proof first. Feel free to search the FDA and PubMed for yourself before taking anybody's word for it, including mine. - Angela

   Lauricidin® is a food supplement NOT a drug. Lauricidin® use has grown 20-30% a year primarily by word of mouth. People like Dr. A Weil and other health professionals find it effective for their patient. He has NO financial connection to the product. You need to understand that controlled clinical experiments are costly and impossible to carry out unless there would be substantial funding for such research. Your statement that Lauricidin® is more expensive than drug antivirals is NOT true. In addition Lauricidin® is nontoxic. If you have questions/comments before you make statements, please contact me directly. - Prof. Dr. Jon J. Kabara

   There is no research at all done on lauricidin being effective at all for herpes. Even the developer dr Kabara admits that. He has antidotal evidence that his patient's on it seem to have a decrease in outbreaks and can stop antivirals - eventually. He's never even done any limited studies with this patients to show actual numbers and reduction in ob's as reported by them. Read the fine print on his site and he even recommends staying on suppressive therapy for the first 6 months you are on his product. Read the section of his website on research and you'll see that there are not any studies that have to do with lauricidin specifically (there might be one with it and HIV but I don't recall at this time). Everything else is studies with products in the same similar group as his and their effects in the test tube. To me it's really reaching scientifically to say his product actually is effective - read thru it, search pubmed and make an informed choice. It's going to cost you more for a month's worth of lauricidin than it is for a month of acyclovir suppressively so just keep that in mind. - B

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