very low calorie dieting with MCTs

Value of VLCD supplementation with medium chain triglycerides.

 4-week study done on obese women. Three diet groups, keeping in mind they were all low-calorie: low-fat, LCT (long chain triglycerides), or MCT (medium chain triglycerides). MCT group showed significantly more weight loss, where more of the weight loss was from fat loss than the other. The MCT group showed more ketones, not very surprising if you've seen other studies on MCTs, this is the norm. Satiety was higher with MCTs. MCTs vs LCTs here showed MCTs in diet lead to greater fat loss and more protein (muscle) sparing.


Researchers noted that these effects declined over time suggesting "metabolic adaptation". From personal experience I can confirm this.