“In another study, we suggested that MCFAs or MCTs might represent a potential therapeutic modality for the clinical manipulation of energy metabolism through the modulation of ghrelin activity.”
“These findings clearly demonstrated that the ingested MCFAs are directly used for the acyl-modification of ghrelin.”
“We found in a … that ingestion of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) or medium-chain triacylglycerols (… the stomach contents of acyl ghrelin , and we further showed that the carbon-chain length of the acyl groups that … the nascent ghrelin peptides corresponded to that of the ingested MCFAs or MCTs.”