Episode #42: Ask the Primal Doctor – Q&A with Dr. Cate Shanahan

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

Fitness, Entrepreneur, Sisson, Parenting, Health, Wellness, Weightloss, Primal, Paleo, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Primal Blueprint Podcast welcomes Dr. Cate Shanahan, who will join the podcast to answer questions on a monthly rotation. In this show, we learn some fascinating insights about Cate's unique approach to optimal eating–a Primal-friendly philosophy that's based on her unique "4 Pillars of World Cuisine" philosophy, which examines the dietary habits of traditional cultures for similar health-promoting themes.

Cate suggests that a collective downfall in diet occurred around 1950, when the post-war momentum drove us toward chemically-altered, heavily-processed foods that inflicted deep harm on a genetic level.

She discusses how her interest in the genetic effects of food first took shape when she was a frequently injured collegiate runner, and later when she noticed the exceptional health of her patients in rural Kauai who ate a nutritious native islander diet.

As a longtime primary care practitioner, Cate then discusses the conflict between her dietary philosophy and the traditional medical care system, especially in the field of cardiology.

Finally, Cate explains how the momentum is turning in mainstream medicine to respect the success of low-carb eating for weight loss and the idea that carbohydrates are the primary driver of lifelong weight gain and the metabolic syndrome epidemic.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, featuring fresh and lively commentary on all things Primal,
0:06.7	including Q&A sessions with Primal Blueprint founder, Mark Sisson.
0:11.3	Special guest interviews hosted by Mark Sisson in conversations with Primal Blueprint authors and other health and fitness experts.
0:19.7	The show is presented by damage control, master formula,
0:23.3	the world's most potent multivitamin, mineral, antioxidant, anti-aging supplement,
0:28.9	available at primal blueprint.com.
0:32.6	Past episodes are available for download
0:34.7	or to review written summaries at blog.
0:37.2	com.
0:40.4	And now, here's your host, Brad Kearns.
0:45.2	Welcome, listeners. It's your host, Brad Kearns. So exciting to have back,
0:50.2	keeping our promise that we're going to have a regular occurring episode with Dr. Kate or the Ask
0:56.9	Dr. Kate Show. How you doing, Kate? I'm doing really good, Brad. Thanks. So Kate Shanahan, Primal
1:03.5	Advantage. We had the exciting launch of this program earlier in the summer. This is 2014. And we talked
1:09.9	a good bit last time about what the offering is all
1:13.4	about, what the one-on-one metabolic consulting program is all about. So listeners that didn't hear
1:19.2	that, go back and check out that podcast because it's a wonderful service where you're looking
1:24.4	at blood work, looking at dietary analysis, and having that wonderful
1:29.3	90-minute consultation. No more getting ushered out of the exam room for the next patient,
1:34.3	huh?
1:35.3	Yeah, I love having that luxury of time where I just, I don't feel like the Edgar Allan Poe,
1:42.3	you know, with the big thing hanging over my head going,
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