Are Seed Oils Really As Bad As They Say? w/ Liana Werner-Gray

Just Ingredients

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In this episode, I sit down with four-time bestselling author and natural health advocate Liana Warner-Gray to hear her powerful story of healing and transformation. Liana shares how being diagnosed with early-stage cancer at just 21 became a turning point that changed everything. Raised in the Australian outback on real, whole foods, she eventually drifted into years of binge eating and processed foods—until a serious health crisis brought her back to the foundations she grew up with. She walks us through the holistic steps she took to heal, including working with a naturopath, detoxing her body, and focusing on whole, nutrient-dense foods. One of the most impactful tools she shares is “Replacement Therapy,” where she recreated healthier versions of her favorite junk foods, helping her break cravings and support her healing journey. We also dive into her upcoming book The Truth About Seed Oils and talk about how industrial seed oils may contribute to inflammation, gut issues, hormonal imbalance, and chronic disease. Liana breaks down how to spot them on labels and why the type of fats we eat truly matters. Her story is a powerful reminder that healing is possible when we get back to real food and start paying attention to what’s in our everyday diet. Bio: Liana Werner-Gray is a certified nutritionist, natural food chef, and four-time best-selling author of The Earth Diet, Cancer-Free with Food, 10-Minute Recipes, and Anxiety-Free with Food. Cancer-Free with Food has a foreword by Mark Hyman MD and is one of the top 100 cancer books of all time. She founded Liana’s Organics, a supplement line for anxiety, and overcame various health issues including a golf-ball size tumor, digestive issues, chronic fatigue and parasites through nutrition, faith and believing food is medicine. After healing Liana started a blog called The Earth Diet in 2009 which went viral. Liana frequently appears on TV shows like ABC News, Fox News, KTLA and has been featured on Dr Oz, Dr’s TV and more. Born and raised in Outback Australia, Liana has been a dual citizen to America since 2010. Connect with Liana Werner-Gray: Instagram: lianawernergray We love Active Skin Repair! Save 20% with code JUSTINGREDIENTS: https://shop.bldgactive.com/JUSTINGREDIENTS Looking for more Just Ingredients content? Instagram Stories: @just.ingredients Podcast Instagram: @just.ingredients.podcast Facebook Community: Join our group Discover our non-toxic product line: Shop Just Ingredients Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Just Ingredients podcast. I'm Karin Lynn and here we dive deep into the journey of healing and wellness.
0:07.3	If you're ready to learn, feel empowered and take charge of your health, you're in the right place.
0:15.8	Welcome back to the show. Today, you guys, I am really excited for our guests because it is Leanna Warner Gray. Some of you
0:22.5	might know her. She is a four-time selling best author. And you guys, she has such an incredible
0:28.2	healing story. So I'm excited for her to talk to you about that. But she also has a new book coming
0:32.6	out. And so we're going to talk about so many fun things today. So thank you for being here.
0:38.2	Thank you so much, Carolyn, for having me back on your podcast. Last time we did it virtually.
0:42.7	We did.
0:43.5	In person. I know. And it's been so fun seeing you at like Expo West and different things and running into you.
0:49.8	And you just are a gem of a person. So I just love that you're out there trying to help people heal.
0:56.2	Yes, yeah. My mission is just to help as many people as possible. Well, that's incredible. To bring them this information because it's not mainstream news. It's becoming more and more. It is. There's a lot of pushback, which we're going to talk about. A lot of such back. and people just know what they've been taught and programmed in the system.
1:12.7	So here we are just exposing all of that. which we're going to talk about. A lot of such back. And people just know what they've been taught and programmed in the system.
1:12.7	So here we are just exposing all of that.
1:15.2	I love it.
1:16.1	Well, you have such an incredible healing journey.
1:19.0	And that's why I believe you have such a passion to help others.
1:22.3	And so tell them your story and why that got you started and everything that you're doing.
1:27.1	Yeah, well, praise me to God.
1:28.8	So 17 years ago, I had early stages of cancer when I was 21.
1:33.4	So super young.
1:34.7	Yeah.
1:35.2	I had a golf ball-sized tumor, 3.7 centimeters right here in my throat on my lymphatic system.
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