Beef Tallow Is NOT HEALTHY: Doctor Explains | Dr. Neal Barnard
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Explore the true health effects of beef tallow. From cholesterol and heart disease to skin health and inflammation, this episode dives into the essential questions about the benefits and risks of cooking with animal fat.
Renowned physician and nutrition expert Dr. Neal Barnard delves into what science says about saturated fat, hormone balance, and cancer risk in this evidence-based conversation with "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast. Whether you're keto-curious or plant-based, you'll get expert insights to help you make informed dietary choices.
In This Interview
- Beef tallow and heart disease
- Skin health benefits
- Is the saturated fat in beef tallow healthier?
- Beef tallow and inflammation
- Cholesterol
- Beef tallow vs. seed oils
- Diabetes risks
- Beef tallow and nutrient absorption
- And more
This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | Their thought is beef is better. |
| 0:06.0 | What they're overlooking is all the rest of the fat that is packed in with it. |
| 0:10.0 | About a third of the saturated fat in beef, beef fat, is this stearguasted. |
| 0:14.0 | The other two-thirds are other kinds that clearly raise your cholesterol. |
| 0:25.6 | And welcome to the exam room live, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hello, I'm the weight loss champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:27.6 | Thanks so very much for watching and downloading in more than 150 countries around the world |
| 0:31.6 | and making the exam room one of the most consumed nutrition podcasts anywhere on the planet today. |
| 0:36.6 | And on this day, we are talking about one of the hottest topics on the planet, |
| 0:40.3 | beef tallow. |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah, whoever thought that this would be a talker, but nonetheless, here we are in 2025, |
| 0:46.3 | and it is all the rage. |
| 0:48.3 | There's a large group of people who say beef tallow is a healthier option than seed oils. But there's a lot of other research that says, |
| 0:56.2 | eh, pump the brakes on that idea. So where does the truth lie? We're going to find out today |
| 1:00.5 | with our good friend, the president of the Physicians Committee. Best-selling author, Dr. Neil Barnard, |
| 1:04.8 | thanks for being here, my friend. Great to be here, Chuck. Are you as surprised as I am that here we are |
| 1:09.2 | in this day and age and beef tallow is making a comeback? |
| 1:12.6 | Completely. I thought cardiologists shut the door on that about three decades ago, but apparently we're wrong. |
| 1:18.6 | We've got it, we're going to deal with it again. |
| 1:20.6 | It's amazing, and you even see these big restaurants switching over from using seed oils and their friars to now using beef tallow again. |
| 1:28.4 | And there is this large contingent who say that beef tallow is in fact the healthier option, |
| 1:33.4 | right down to the fact that the saturated fat that's found in the tallow is different from |
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