Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101-5 | Small Change, Big Impact_ The Oils You Use Matter

20 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD, switched from vegetable oils to coconut oil from a traditional Thai producer and added more butter. He noticed the change improved his health quickly, even though it seemed small.

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One of the biggest changes that I noticed, the biggest difference in myself very quickly was when I learned about the oils we were using. I switched over to. At the time, avocado oil wasn't really available or a thing. But we switched to coconut oil that we would buy from a source. Again, that's not a local to Virginia food. But we were like, this is a quality ingredient. So we switched to a company that produced things in a traditional fashion in Thailand, and then you could get the coconut oil, and we used that. So we made that change. We stopped using any vegetable oil, probably started using more butter. I was never like a margarine type person, so that wasn't really a big shift that we had to do. But just reframing how we thought about oils.