Dr Cynita Conradie - Homeopath

17/06/2026

Coconut oil for Cognitive Enhancement:

COCONUT OIL may be one of the most powerful foods for reversing cognitive decline.

One doctor documented how just 5 spoonfuls a day helped her husband regain function he had lost months earlier.

Here's why it works (and how to start using it at home):

Over 55 million people around the world are living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia.

These conditions were once framed mostly as brain aging and damage, visible as plaques and tangles, but a new paradigm is uncovering an upstream driver and an unlikely supplement that could help. 🧵
One emerging hallmark of dementia is impaired brain glucose metabolism. For some, without sufficient glucose-derived energy, brain function falters and other hallmarks like plaques, tangles, and atrophy can follow.

This same pattern, the brain struggling to use glucose efficiently, is what we are seeing in serious psychiatric conditions like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression.

This crossover is not a coincidence. Research suggests metabolic dysfunction in the brain may be an upstream driver of both neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions, which is why the brain energy theory at the heart of metabolic psychiatry extends well beyond mental health alone.

This raises the question, what other options do we have for fueling the brain?
It’s well established that ketones can fuel a significant portion of the brain’s energy needs.

Dr. Stephen Cunnane's research has shown that while the brains of older adults living with dementia or mild cognitive impairment struggle to take up and use glucose, they appear to handle ketones well.

In fact, the more ketones present in the blood, the more the brain appears to use.
Ketones can be provided to the brain through several mechanisms, such as:

→ Fasting
→ Ketogenic Diet
→ MCT Fats & Ketone Boosting Supplements

Interestingly, much of the evidence on ketones and dementia comes from studies using coconut oil or MCT oil.

In 2008, Dr. Mary Newport began giving coconut oil to her husband, who had dementia, and documented repeated improvements in his cognitive function and daily activities.

She later compiled over 200 similar reports from families who observed the same. It was not a controlled trial, but it was a compelling observation that set off years of further inquiry.

Coconut oil's unique medium-chain fats appear to be the key.
Coconut oil is among the most natural ketogenic fats because it contains medium-chain fatty acids (MCTs) C6, C8, and C10

These fats are processed directly by the liver and converted into ketones which can then be taken up by the brain.

Early studies, not yet randomized controlled trials, suggest modest cognitive benefits from raising blood ketone levels through MCT-based interventions in Alzheimer's dementia.
Broader adoption of ketone-generating interventions has been slowed, in part, by concerns about LDL cholesterol.

But what does the evidence actually show?

Dr. Mary Newport reviewed 26 coconut oil trials and found consistent increases in HDL, decreases in triglycerides, and a very inconsistent impact on LDL.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/17/3/514

It’s important to point out that coconut and MCT oil are not cures for Alzheimer’s.

But they may be able to help, and in the context of limited effective options and generally low risk, coconut or MCT oil may be worth consideration.

The data is early but there is a signal here that increasing ketone availability to the brain’s of individuals living with dementia is worth further exploration

Credit to

Coconut oil (CNO) is often characterized as an “artery-clogging fat” because it is a predominantly saturated fat that ostensibly raises total cholesterol (TChol) and LDL cholesterol (LDL-C). Whereas previous analyses assessed CNO based on the relative effects on lipid parameters against other fa...

13/06/2026

A bee product killed the SUPERBUG that KILLS people in hospitals. It’s not honey.

Propolis.

Most supplements contain one or two active compounds. Propolis contains over 300.

Bees don’t eat it. They coat every surface of the hive with it. Kills bacteria, viruses, and fungi on contact. Nothing gets in. It’s the hive’s immune system.

During WWII, field medics ran out of antibiotics. They packed open wounds with propolis. It worked.

It kills drug-resistant bacteria including MRSA. It inhibits influenza and herpes. It kills candida. It reduces inflammatory markers in human trials. It even triggers cancer cells to self-destruct in lab studies.

That cold you keep catching. The candida you can’t shake. The gut inflammation that won’t calm down.

Your immune system isn’t weak. It’s unsupported.

10/06/2026

THE BODY MANUAL NOBODY HANDED YOU:

1. Can't fall asleep ⟶ Blink rapidly for 60 seconds. Eyes tire, brain follows.

2. Back pain from sitting ⟶ Squeeze your glutes for 30 seconds. Spine realigns itself.

3. Eyes tired from screens ⟶ Look 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Tension releases immediately.

4. Hands shaking from anxiety ⟶ Press your fingertips together hard. Nervous system calms down.

5. Headache behind your eyes ⟶ Press your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Jaw releases, pain fades.

6. Feeling nauseous ⟶ Press firmly on the inside of your wrist. Nausea signal to the brain cuts off.

7. Hiccups won't stop ⟶ Hold breath, swallow twice, exhale slowly. Diaphragm resets.

8. Mind goes blank mid-sentence ⟶ Look up and to the left. Memory retrieval speeds up instantly.

9. Ears ringing after loud noise ⟶ Cup your palms over your ears, tap the back of your skull. Ringing fades in seconds.

10. Jaw clenching from stress ⟶ Tongue flat to the roof of your mouth. Jaw cannot stay tight.

11. Lightheaded standing up ⟶ Clench your thighs before you rise. Blood pressure holds before it drops.

12. Can't stop coughing ⟶ Press your thumb on your wrist pulse point. Cough reflex weakens fast.

13. Knees aching after sitting ⟶ Walk backwards for 30 seconds. Knee compression releases in reverse.

14. Eyes twitching ⟶ Press gently on the closed eyelid for 10 seconds. Almost always stress or magnesium deficiency.

15. Waking up at 3am every night ⟶ Your liver is overloaded, or your blood sugar is unstable. Cut sugar, alcohol, late meals. It's not insomnia. It's your body asking for help.

08/06/2026

Join us for a guided TRE session with Dr. Cynita Conradie, designed to help your body naturally release stress, tension, and stored trauma.

This is a FREE one-time session for men only — a perfect opportunity to experience the benefits of TRE in a safe, supportive environment.

Date: 13 June 2026
Session @ : 12:00-13:00

Frontline Fitness Centre
Le Grant Building, 28 Nelson Mandela Drive, Modimolle

Bookings are essential due to limited space

To secure your spot:
Tracie – 082 435 0155

Take a moment to reset, reconnect, and restore your body.

To learn more about TRE, visit:
https://youtu.be/vXa7tVtUotE?si=9G-vISFeGzc_NibM

07/06/2026

🧠 Research shows constant criticism rewires a child’s brain.

And the emotional stress shapes lifelong mental health.

Children raised in environments filled with constant criticism often develop a stress-response system that remains on high alert, even in the absence of actual threats.

This chronic activation of the fight-or-flight state interferes with a child’s ability to feel safe, calm, or emotionally grounded.

According to research from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, persistent emotional stress in early life can alter brain architecture, leading to long-term issues with emotional regulation, anxiety, and attention. When everyday interactions are perceived as threatening, children may respond with hypervigilance, withdrawal, or emotional shutdown—defense mechanisms rooted in survival.

As these children grow, the expectation of judgment or harm becomes deeply ingrained in their nervous system, affecting their self-esteem and relationships. They may struggle to trust others or feel secure in social settings, constantly anticipating criticism or rejection. This state of chronic stress is known as "toxic stress," and it’s been linked to a range of lifelong impacts—from depression and learning difficulties to physical health problems. The findings underscore how emotionally unsafe environments can have a lasting effect on a child’s development, both psychologically and biologically.

Source:
The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. InBrief: The Impact of Early Adversity on Children's Development.

04/06/2026

10 WEBSITES THAT FEEL TOO USEFUL TO BE FREE

Bookmark every single one. No account, no trial, no card. Things people sell for a monthly fee, given away for $0.

1. wolframalpha.com
Type any math, physics, chemistry, or engineering problem and it solves it step by step, showing the full working. A private tutor for every hard subject, available at 3am, that never gets tired of your questions.

2. photopea.com
The entire Photoshop, running in a browser tab. Opens PSD files, handles layers, masks, and smart objects, and processes everything on your own machine so nothing uploads. Adobe charges around $55 a month for this. Photopea charges nothing.

3. annas-archive.gl
64 million books and 95 million research papers in one search box. Publishers won a $322 million judgment against it and seized its main domains this year. It moved to a new one and kept growing. The largest library in human history, and it refuses to die.

4. semanticscholar.org
An AI search engine across 200 million academic papers. Ask a question and it pulls the relevant studies, the citations, and a plain summary of each. Researchers used to pay for tools that did a fraction of this.

5. excalidraw.com
Open a blank canvas and sketch diagrams, flowcharts, and wireframes that look hand-drawn. Real-time collaboration, no login, nothing saved to a server unless you want it. Whiteboard apps charge teams monthly for less.

6. classcentral.com
A search engine for 200,000+ free courses from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Yale. It finds the free version of almost any course and tells you which ones are actually worth your time. The catalog universities never hand you.

7. remove.bg
Drop in any photo and it erases the background in two seconds. Designers used to charge per image for this and agencies built whole workflows around it. Now it's a single upload.

8. regex101.com
Build and test any regular expression with a live explanation of every piece as you type. The thing that makes grown engineers cry, turned into a tool that teaches you while you use it. Free forever.

9. ninite.com
Tick the apps you want on a new Windows machine, download one installer, and it silently installs all of them with no toolbars and no next-next-finish. IT departments pay for software that does exactly this.

10. archive.org
The entire history of the internet, plus millions of free books, films, concerts, and old software you can run in your browser. The Wayback Machine alone has saved over 900 billion web pages. A civilization's memory, open to anyone.

Credit to Jainam Parman

Wolfram|Alpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels.

27/05/2026

Heart → Daily walking
Brain → Reading & learning
Lungs → Deep breathing
Bones → Strength training
Blood → Drinking enough water
Skin → Daily moisturizing
Immune system → Quality sleep
Liver → Less junk & processed food
Gut → Probiotics & fiber foods
Eyes → Screen breaks every hour
Hands → Regular movement & stretching
Muscles → Enough protein
Nervous system → Less caffeine at night
Hormones → Stress management

26/05/2026

26/05/2026

Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

20/05/2026

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.