302. The Truth About Seed Oils: Fighting the Root of Chronic Disease, Low Energy & Advanced Aging with Dr. Cate Shanahan
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Cate Shanahan’s groundbreaking work has inspired entire movements involving bone broth, live culture ferments, and seed-oil-free business empires. In this episode, I welcome Dr. Cate back on the podcast to chat about the latest research in her new book, Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back.
We covered Seed Oils 101 in our last conversation (episode 210); so here, we take it even deeper, talking about seed oil’s connection to cellular damage, uncontrollable hunger, blood sugar instability, and gut inflammation. We also address headlines stating that the ketogenic diet is just as good as a high-carbohydrate diet for managing diabetes.
Dr. Cate explains how to replete our cells and fuel our mitochondria, cut through the anti-inflammatory diet noise and learn what foods to prioritize to fight oxidative stress and get more energy to our cells. We also learn how to build meals that prevent energy dips and debunk myths about snacking and fasting.
By taking this science seriously and making informed dietary choices, we can improve our health and the health of our families. Our wellbeing is worth the effort!
We also cover:
(00:00:41) Hidden Dangers of Seed Oils: The Brain’s Worst Enemy
(00:11:59) Connecting Oxidative Stress to Damaged Cells & Chronic Disease
(00:26:16) Support Mitochondria By Fueling Cells & Combating Oxidative Stress
(00:35:53) Dr. Cate on the Keto Diet & Insulin Resistance
(00:51:15) Debunking Popular Snacking & Fasting Myths
Resources:
• Click here for full show notes
• Read: Dark Calories by Dr. Cate
• Website: drcate.com
• Instagram: @drcateshanahan
• Read: Comparing foods cooked in seed oils to smoking cigarettes
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. |
| 0:01.0 | Kate is a |
| 0:02.0 | Dr. Kate is a |
| 0:05.0 | Dr. Kate is a coronel trained physician scientist whose work has inspired entire movements involving bone broth, live culture ferments, and seed oil-free business empires. |
| 0:21.0 | Dedicated to her field, she runs a telehealth practice |
| 0:24.6 | as well as a health education website. |
| 0:27.3 | And today I welcome Dr. Kate back on the podcast |
| 0:30.5 | to chat about the latest research in her new book, Dark Calories, how |
| 0:34.6 | vegetable oils destroy our health and how we can get it back. |
| 0:39.8 | All right, Dr. Kate Shanahan, welcome back to the show. This is part two for you because I love talking about vegetable oils and seed oils and the damage that they're causing down to the cellular level and you've taken the last four years |
| 0:54.7 | to write an amazing new book called Dark Calories. So first of all, thank you for your time and effort |
| 1:00.7 | in fighting the good fight and really teasing out the research so people understand |
| 1:05.6 | how these are implicating and causing damage to our bodies and our health and for going upstream. |
| 1:13.2 | Truly you're like a salmon swimming as hard as you can upstream, |
| 1:16.4 | fighting the good fight for all of us and distilling down the research and I really appreciate |
| 1:22.2 | your time and effort and I want to be a megaphone for you. |
| 1:25.8 | Well thank you so much Kelly because yes I do need all the help I can get because I'm fighting |
| 1:30.7 | the American Heart Association I'm fighting the health care industry I'm fighting the American Heart Association. I'm fighting the health care industry. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm fighting the food giants. It's just like, oh my God. |
| 1:38.0 | And also now there's all the debunkers on social media out there volunteering to defend seed whales goodness gracious. |
| 1:44.3 | They believe, you know, they believe there's no evidence right, they truly believe it. |
| 1:48.6 | So we need to set the record straight. We do and you do that in your book and we're going to do that on |
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