High Vitamin Butter: Deep yellow butter oil from cows eating rapidly growing green grass supplies not only vitamins A and D but also the X Factor, discovered by Weston A. Price, DDS [dentist]. It can be used as a supplement to regular dietary butter, particularly during Winter and early Spring.
To summarize the importance of high vitamin butter oil and cod liver oil as it relates to their healing abilities we like to refer to a quote from Sally Fallon's book Nourishing Traditions:
Dr. Price was often called to the bedsides of dying individuals, when last rites were being administered. He brought with him two things---a bottle of cod liver oil and a bottle of high vitamin butter oil from cows eating growing grass. He put drops of both under the tongue of the patient--and more often than not the patient revived. He was puzzled by the fact that cod liver oil alone and butter oil alone seldom revived the dying patient--but the two together worked like magic.
Butter Oil Properties
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA)
CLA inhibits the body's mechanism for storing fat and causes the body to utilize fatty reserves for energy.
CLA has been shown to inhibit lipoprotein lipase, an enzyme that breaks down fat gobules in the blood so that adipocyte (fat cell) uptake, or body fat accumulation, can occur. The inhabitation of lipoprotein lipase results in reduced fat deposition.
CLA also increases hormone sensitive lipase activity, an enzyme that breaks down fats stored in fat cells on the body. The fatty acids are returned to the blood stream to be used as an energy source for muscle cells. CLA directs the body to use fat reserves for energy.
Stearic acid
Stearic acid is a saturated fatty acid. Recent research suggests that diets high in stearic acid help lower total blood cholesterol. (Beef fat and Cocoa butter contain significant amounts of stearic acid, but they also contain palmitic acid, which raises cholesterol.
Sphingolipids