585: The Worst Foods You Need to Avoid at All Costs! (No Exaggeration) | Dr. Cate Shanahan
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/tN9o1oBDX-M
Dr. Cate Shanahan (IG: @drcateshanahan) is a board certified Family Physician whose books have taught a generation of ancestral health influencers and nutrition-oriented MDs about the benefits of bone broth, organ meats, fermented foods and the damaging effects of a collection of 8 common oils (The Hateful 8) that she believes to be the ingredient in the Western Diet most responsible for obesity and inflammatory disease.
Today’s chat is focused on her New York Times bestselling book, The Fatburn Fix: Boost Energy, End Hunger, and Lose Weight by Using Body Fat for Fuel.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Vegetable oils are toxic!
- The Hateful 8
- Seed oils cause chronic disease
- Mitochondria and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)
- Sugar is not causing diabetes
- The beginning of insulin resistance
- The problem with omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids
- Should we aim to consume more omega-3s?
- How to eliminate seed oils from your body
- Hypoglycemia is a warning sign
- Practical steps to heal your mitochondria
- Chia seeds are high in PUFAs
- Beware: sources of seed oils
- Seed oil free food recommendations
- Dr. Cate’s thoughts on plant toxins
- The truth about saturated fat
- Why Dr. Cate started focusing on seed oils 24 years ago
- High LDL is actually good for you
- It's time to stop snacking
- Learning to cook is empowering
- The misconceptions about ketones
- Is the carnivore diet healthy long term?
- How to eat more organ meats
- The best and worst supplements
- What is liver support?
- Stop fearing salt
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | The only way you can get the dots drawn there is in the books that I've written because there's |
| 0:08.9 | no one else that's looking at these oils to the extent that I've been looking at them. They build up in our body |
| 0:15.2 | fat in ways that give us type 2 diabetes eventually. Along the way, they make us gain weight, |
| 0:22.1 | they change our appetites they make us crave sugar the whole idea |
| 0:26.6 | that cholesterol is bad again we have to look at who's talking here what's the |
| 0:31.3 | source of this information that comes comes from Ansel Keys and nobody else. So we can't trust him. So don't trust him. |
| 0:37.8 | Our body fed is the biggest organ in our body, and its job is to fuel ourselves and we can have so much polyunsaturated fat in it |
| 0:47.2 | that it can't do its basic job and nobody's paying attention to this. |
| 0:51.8 | That's the craziest part of all. |
| 0:53.4 | What I'm saying is you're on a collision course |
| 0:57.0 | with some sort of deadly disease |
| 0:58.8 | as long as you have these oils in your diet and your body fat. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 585. I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 1:15.3 | Each week I'll bring you long-form conversations with health and wellness |
| 1:19.0 | leaders from around the world. This week I'm speaking with Dr Kate Shanahan. Dr Kate is a board certified |
| 1:25.1 | family physician whose books have taught a generation of ancestral health |
| 1:29.0 | influencers and nutrition-oriented MDs about the benefits of bone-brough, organ meats, fermented foods, |
| 1:36.0 | and the damaging effects of a collection of eight common oils, the hateful eight, |
| 1:40.5 | that she believes to be the ingredient in the Western diet |
| 1:43.6 | most responsible for obesity and inflammatory disease. |
| 1:47.6 | Today's chat is focused on her New York Times best-selling book, The Fat Burn Fix, boost energy and hunger and |
| 1:54.8 | lose weight by using body fat for fuel. Highlights of our conversation include |
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