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The Primal Kitchen Podcast

#151: Dr. Cate Shanahan, Part I

The Primal Kitchen Podcast

Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti

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

4.4717 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Brad Kearns welcomes back one of the most popular guests from the old days! Dr. Cate has been hard at work preparing the launch of her revised and updated bestseller DEEP NUTRITION originally published in 2008 and relaunching a 512-page masterpiece in 2017. Cate gives you the straight scoop on her favorite topics, particularly the disastrous misinformation about dietary fats that has been entrenched in conventional wisdom for decades. Cate details why "natural fats" are so critical to human health, and how refined high polyunsaturated vegetable oils are directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of premature deaths annually. They disrupt normal cellular function immediately upon ingestion, increase oxidative stress throughout the body, and damage brain function in particular; this is the #1 disease catalyst in modern life, an underlying factor in every chronic disease study.

Cate outs conventional wisdom as conducting a massive experiment to "feed modern humans the cheapest possible food and see what will happen." She outs researcher Ancel Keys as the dude who drove us toward bad fats and away from healthy fats ("he knew he was wrong too!," laments Cate). Speaking of losing weight, refined polyunsaturated vegetable oils are more likely to be stored and less likely to be burned than natural fats. In summary, here's how to save your life and optimize your health: Ditch refined high polyunsaturated vegetable oils (watch out when dining out; most restaurant food--fast food to fine dining--is soaked in these gnarly oils); eat more natural fats (eggs, meat, cheese, coconut products, olives/olive oil, avocados/avocado oil, etc.).

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, featuring fresh and lively commentary on all things Primal,

0:06.9

including Q&A sessions with Primal Blueprint founder Mark Sisson, special guest interviews hosted by Mark Sisson,

0:14.0

and conversations with Primal Blueprint authors and other health and fitness experts.

0:18.9

The show is presented by Primal Master Formula,

0:21.9

the world's most potent multivitamin, mineral,

0:25.7

antioxidant, and anti-aging supplement,

0:28.6

available at primalblueprint.com.

0:31.6

Past episodes are available for download

0:33.9

or to review written summaries

0:35.6

at blog.primalblueprint.com.

0:39.4

And now here's your host, Brad Kearns.

0:43.4

Back with me. Finally, after a long break from being one of our favorite podcast guests ever back in the old days, but you've been really busy. We'll find out why.

0:52.8

It's Dr. Kate Shanahan. Hey, Brad. Thanks.

0:55.9

Happy to be here. Yes, so glad to have you on. We had a wonderful visit in May in Denver,

1:03.3

we did a lot of filming for the Primal Endurance Online course, and we got heavy into the topic

1:09.1

of fat burning for athletes and also the things to watch out for in

1:13.2

the diet. The viewers can go on YouTube and watch that epic video where we had Luke and you

1:19.9

talking about the dangers of refined vegetable oils. It was a nice one-off production that we

1:25.6

put on YouTube.

1:27.7

So here we are of the world's foremost resource on healthy eating and fat burning.

1:33.1

And I wanted to catch up and first talk about this massive project that you and Luke have

1:38.4

undertaken for the past many months, which is to kind of update, revise, expand your best-selling book,

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