#300 - Cate Shanahan, MD: Dark Calories, How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health, Seed Oils & The Hateful 8, Inflammatory Body Fat, PUFA Depletion, Oxidative Stress, Vitamin E Supplementation, The Four Pillars Of Nutrition, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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0:00.0	I recognize that the chemistry of these fatty acids could be very dangerous.
0:09.0	There are eight bad oils.
0:12.0	Corn, canola, cotton seed, soy, sunflower, sunflower, rice bran and grape seed.
0:20.0	Only the refined oils have these high smoke points, right?
0:23.9	It is a selling point for busy restaurants so that they can cook everything on extremely
0:28.1	high heat and just throw stuff into a deep friar without worrying about it boiling over.
0:32.9	Welcome to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast, where we meet the world's top experts to explore the
0:39.1	secrets of health, mindset, longevity, and so much more. Are you ready to take charge of your
0:45.0	existence and biohack your life? This show is for you. Please keep in mind. We're not dispensing
0:51.5	medical advice and are not responsible for any outcomes you may
0:55.3	experience from implementing the tactics lying herein. So friends, are you ready to join me?
1:01.3	Let's do this. Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon biohacking podcast. Friends, we have a legend on the show today.
1:12.6	You've probably heard about the dangers of seed oils.
1:15.3	If you have, that is because of the incredible Dr. Kate Shanahan.
1:19.5	And in her newest book, Dark Calories, you will learn and understand more about why these certain types of oils can be potentially so bad for our bodies. In today's show,
1:28.8	we talk about how vegetable oils destroy your health, what the hateful eight are, the concept of
1:34.3	inflammatory body fat, whether or not you should do poofa depletion, the role of vitamin E supplementation,
1:41.3	the four pillars of nutrition, and so much more. I cannot wait to hear what you
1:45.4	guys think. These show notes for today's episode will be at Melanieavalon.com
1:49.9	slash dark calories. Those show notes will have a full transcript as well as links to
1:54.9	everything that we talked about, so definitely check that out. There will be two episode
1:58.6	giveaways for this episode. One will be in my Facebook
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