Catherine Shanahan

I was 19 years old, and-

By Dr. Cate Shanahan

... yeah, Cate Shanahan, friend of the show.

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She's the coolest.

... yeah, on avocado oils, and 90% of avocado oil is mixed with- You know, fricking seed oils.

So anyway, back to the seed oil revelation of 2019.

I read that book, and I was just shocked by Dr. Cate Shanahan's revelations.

Yeah.

There's this concept in, um, I think Dr. Catherine Shanahan talks about it quite a bit in her book, Deep Nutrition, where she talks about the food you eat, as it is becoming the cells that you are, choose the food with the highest genetic purity.

You know, food that-

Mm-hmm

So the deal with seed oils, it's such a story.

I do think that, um, Cate Shanahan's book, Dark Calories, is a great one to read about this.

There's a couple different viewpoints on seed oils because when you look at the research, and Ben Greenfield actually did a great exposé on this on his podcast, Boundless, because it showed that people with... who ate more seed oils had better LDL.

But then when they really got to it and unpacked it, it appeared that they, while they did, they had more oxidized LDL, and so this wasn't a good thing.

It's like 20 to one 6 to 3, versus where we should be four to one.

So that's issue number one.

Issue number two is the way that they have been extracted, and that's one of the problems that Cate Shanahan talks about is that in order to ex- extrude some of these oils, the processing they have to do creates these harmful toxic byproducts that are problematic.

And so the question with them that is up on the table is: Do they create more insulin resistance? Do they create more problems? And that's the big question.

Okay.

Please welcome the mother of the no seed oil movement, Dr. Cate Shanahan, to Modern Ancestral Mamas.

Thank you so much, mamas, for having me on your show.

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Um, are you on social media at all, or is there any, any other...

Um, yeah, you can follow me on Twitter.

It's @drcate Shanahan, and, um, and on LinkedIn at Dr. Cate Shanahan, and on Facebook at Dr. Cate Shanahan, and on Instagram-

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So then I was listening to a podcast with a couple of ladies that I called my paleo friends and their podcast was called balance bites.

And they've had a doctor on who was talking about bone broth and And not only bone broth, but this doctor, whose name is Catherine Shanahan, I sell her book in my store, Deep Nutrition, changed my world.

And so for the first time, and her big shtick at that point was going back to what she calls the pillars of the human diet.

which is eating the whole animal.