Mary T. Newport, M.D. grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA and was educated at Xavier University and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, both located in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is board certified in pediatrics and neonatology, and completed her training at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, and Medical University Hospital in Charleston, SC. She practiced neonatology in Florida for thirty years and was founding medical director of two newborn intensive care units in the Tampa Bay area. Dr. Newport then practiced for three years at the opposite end of the spectrum, providing care for hospice patients in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. She currently focuses on writing and speaking around the world as a messenger for the many benefits of ketones.

Dr. Newport was caregiver for fifteen years for her husband of forty-three years, Steve, who suffered from early onset Alzheimer's disease and died in January 2016. They have two daughters and a grandson. She is author of Alzheimer's Disease:What If There Was a Cure? The Story of Ketones (Turner Publishing, 2011), now in its second edition (2013), with multiple foreign language translations, and is also author of The Coconut Oil and Low Carb Solution for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Other Diseases (Turner Publishing, 2015). Dr. Newport has been an invited speaker on this subject for symposia and conferences in the USA, Canada, France, Greece, Germany, Japan, Singapore and Thailand, University of South Florida, the American College of Nutrition, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, the Fellowship in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, the International College of Integrative Medicine, Weston A. Price Foundation. She has given numerous presentations to university students and to the public. She has been featured in television segments and provided interviews for many radio programs, podcasts, print media stories and newsletters. Her website is www.coconutketones.com and Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/CoconutOilandAlzheimers/?ref=hl.