Dr. Cate Shanahan: Deep Nutrition
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
We are continuing our discussion on nutrition in this episode with Dr. Catherine Shanahan. Dr. Cate is a board-certified family physician with a background in biology, biochemistry, genetics, and ethnobotany. She attended medical school with an interest in how nutrition affects genetic health but graduated not having learned much about nutrition. It wasn't until she relocated to Hawaii that everything she did know about nutrition was turned upside down. Hawaii has the longest lifespans of any state and she was able to study the culinary habits of her patients – each of whom were raised in rural areas on home-grown foods prepared by simple methods. These findings were the start of her groundbreaking book, Deep Nutrition. This book is the single most important nutrition book that Juliet has ever found, and has truly changed the way the Starretts think about food and the way they eat.
For more info on Deep Nutrition, check out Dr. Cate's website!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:14.0 | And this is the Ready State. |
| 0:16.0 | You got it. You've got it. You've got it. |
| 0:23.1 | You've got it. |
| 0:24.3 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:25.3 | We're back at the Ready State. |
| 0:30.6 | And today we're talking to Dr. Kate Shanahan, who frankly wrote a book last year that dominated the way we eat and the way we think about nutrition. |
| 0:33.7 | Now, if we're talking about first principles, and Juliet, we'll get into the book in |
| 0:36.3 | a second. |
| 0:37.5 | What's amazing about Dr. Kate Shanahan's well-researched book is that it turns out that it is fundamentally about eating the way human beings are supposed to. |
| 0:47.4 | And it's changed everything for us. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm so excited to talk to Dr. Kate today. |
| 0:52.2 | She wrote my single favorite nutrition book I have ever read called Deep Nutrition, Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food. |
| 0:59.3 | In this book, she basically does this extensive study of traditional diets and comes up with what she calls the four pillars that every traditional diet has in common and what basically makes up the healthiest diets |
| 1:12.9 | in the world. And I'm not going to spoiler what those four pillars are, because we'll talk |
| 1:16.6 | about that extensively in the episodes. But I can tell you that this book was so influential |
| 1:22.4 | that I actually now try to eat Ophill on a maybe weekly basis. |
| 1:26.7 | As in the back, we met Dr. Kate Shanahan through our work with the Lakers, and she was spending |
| 1:32.2 | time helping the sort of high-level sports teams wrap their heads around this big problem. |
| 1:38.0 | How do we fuel nutrition and play the long game? |
| 1:41.6 | And I would be remiss in not mentioning that Dr. Kate is a board |
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