Conrado Singian Dayrit was a Filipino doctor and scientist known for his advocacy of coconut oil

Coconut oil

Coconut oil is an edible oil extracted from the kernel or meat of matured coconuts harvested from the coconut palm . Throughout the tropical world, it has provided the primary source of fat in the diets of millions of people for generations. It has various applications in food, medicine, and industry...

 for which he was dubbed "Dr. Coconut" and "Father of VCO" (Virgin Coconut Oil). He was one of the six co-founders and a president of the Philippine Heart Association, a president of the Federation of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies, a president of the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology, and an emeritus professor of pharmacology at the University of the Philippines

University of the Philippines

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 College of Medicine. He performed pioneering tests on the efficacy of coconut oil on HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

and wrote about coconut oil's health benefits.

Selected works

• Dayrit, Conrado S. (2005). The Truth About Coconut Oil – The Drugstore in a Bottle. Anvil. ISBN 9789712716959.