561: Examining The Harmful Effects Of Seed Oils With Steven Rofrano
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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You may have heard the buzz that seed oils are bad for you. But why are they so damaging, exactly? What do they do to the body? And what are the results of their effects? Steven Rofrano of Ancient Crunch goes over the specifics, along with sharing stories about his own health wake-up call and why he is so eager to invite us to go back to ancient, nourishing foods.
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| 0:00.0 | So why they're toxic. One easy way of understanding this is that it's a completely novel ingredient. So this is not a thing that humans ever ate. There are many completely synthetic ingredients, but seed oils are arguably the first one. The oldest processed food ingredient. Every other thing that humans ate up until the invention of seed oils was largely something you could obtain from a farm. And seed holes were the first like, oh, this came from a factory that you ate. Later on, we have the artificial food dyes, the preservatives, and all these other things that are common today. But seedles were the first, and still are the largest. So, yes, red 40 is bad. Yes, these food dyes are bad, whatever, all these additives. But if you are a normal American and you eat the foods that contain them, |
| 0:37.8 | what are you going to have a few milligrams of red 40 in a year? |
| 0:40.4 | You're going to have a few micograms of a certain preservative or something. |
| 0:44.4 | Like the amount of seed oils that is present in food means that if you eat an average diet, |
| 0:48.9 | you will eat the single largest source of calories comes from seed oils. |
| 0:51.9 | Like you'll eat 30% of your calories from them. |
| 0:59.8 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, |
| 1:02.3 | welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 1:08.1 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you |
| 1:12.0 | achieve optimal health. And now here is our host and producer Hilda Labrata Gore. Hey, Hilda here. |
| 1:26.1 | Seed oils are making us more inflamed and sicker than ever. |
| 1:29.3 | It's 2026. |
| 1:31.3 | The time has come to examine carefully what seed oils are and what they do to the body. |
| 1:37.3 | This is episode 561, and our guest today is Stephen Refrano. |
| 1:42.3 | He is the founder of Ancient Crunch, the company behind |
| 1:45.6 | Mossa Chips and Vandy Crisps. Stephen today explains in simple terms why seed oils exist, |
| 1:52.7 | their purpose in nature, and why they really aren't meant for human consumption. He also goes |
| 1:58.0 | over in detail the damage that they do to us and why it's high time to return to traditional foods and fats that nourish us best, the very ones that Dr. Price came across on his travels. |
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