The amount you pay for covered health care services before your insurance plan starts to pay. With a $2,000 deductible, for example, you pay the first $2,000 of covered services yourself. After you pay your deductible, you usually pay only a copayment or coinsurance for covered services. Your insurance company pays the rest. Many plans pay for certain services, like a checkup or disease management programs, before you've met your deductible. Check your plan details.
What are MCTs? Before we can begin our comparison of MCT oil and coconut oil, the first thing we have to do is define âMCT.â MCTs stands for medium chain triglycerides. Another term for âtriglyceridesâ is fatty acids. So another way of referring to MCTs is MCFA (medium chain fatty acids). âMediumâ references the chain length of the fatty acids.
Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) are triglycerides whose fatty acids have an aliphatic tail of 6â12 carbon atoms. The fatty acids found in MCTs are called medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs). Like all triglycerides, MCTs are composed of a glycerol backbone and three fatty acids. In the case of MCTs, 2 or 3 of the fatty acid chains attached to glycerol are medium-chain in length. Rich sources for commercial extraction of beneficial MCTs include palm kernel oil and coconut oil.