Is canola oil toxic? | Gil Carvhalo, Md, PhD

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Simon Hill

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Episode #288. Discover the truth about the canola oil debate with Dr Gil Carvalho. A respected physician and research scientist, Dr Carvalho unpacks the complexities of canola oil's role in our health. With no ties to industry, his unbiased perspective sheds light on how canola oil affects our bodies, its comparison to other oils, and the science behind the headlines. Tune in for a candid conversation that promises to enhance your understanding help you make informed dietary decisions. Specifically, we discuss: Introduction (00:00) What Inspired the Canola Oil Video (01:58) Defining Canola Oil: Origins and Composition (06:35) The Most Common Claims About Canola Oil (12:13) Research Methodology in Canola Oil Investigation (17:45) The Significance of Human Data in Canola Oil Research (22:48) Understanding Meta-analysis Studies and Epidemiological Approaches (26:37) Assessing the Adequacy of Canola Oil Research (42:07) Canola Oil's Impact on Blood Lipids and Cardiovascular Health (46:20) Canola Oil vs. Nuts and Seeds for Weight Loss (50:36) Canola Oil Consumption and the Risk of Heart Attack/Stroke (56:48) Canola Oil and Blood Glucose Control (1:00:57) Canola Oil's Influence on Body Weight (1:04:29) Is Canola Oil Inflammatory? (1:08:54) Examining the "Wash-IN-DIET Canola Oil" Study by Junker R and Kratz M (1:11:24) Lipid Peroxidation: Canola Oil Oxidation (1:14:44) Research on Liver Fat and Canola Oil (1:21:50) Linoleic Acid Consumption and Total Mortality (1:23:10) Reception of the Canola Oil Video within the NutritionMadeSimple Community (1:25:59) Addressing Common Questions About Canola Oil (1:33:02) Assessing Research Funding from the Canola Industry (1:37:19) Making the Case for Canola Oil Toxicity (1:40:19) Is Canola Oil Classified as an Ultra-Processed Food? (1:42:48) Future Studies Required for a Comprehensive Understanding of Canola Oil and Human Health (1:46:50) Conclusion (1:48:07) You can learn more about Dr Gil Carvalho here, and connect with him on Twitter/X and Facebook. For straightforward, science-based nutrition information, visit his YouTube channel Nutrition Made Simple. You can also access his research publications for more. Optimise your health with InsideTracker’s biomarker analysis. Get exclusive access to InsideTracker’s new ApoB test and a 20% discount on your first order at insidetracker.com/simon. Enjoy, friends. Simon Want to support the show? The best way to support the show is to use the products and services offered by our sponsors. To check them out, and enjoy great savings, visit theproof.com/friends. You can also show your support by leaving a review on the Apple Podcast app and/or sharing your favourite episodes with your friends and family. Simon Hill, MSc, BSc (Hons) Creator of theproof.com and host of The Proof with Simon Hill Author of The Proof is in the Plants Watch the episodes on YouTube or listen on Apple/Spotify Connect with me on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook Nourish your gut with my Plant-Based Ferments Guide Download my complimentary Two-Week Meal Plan and high protein Plant Performance recipe book

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0:00.0	We gave one example in the video because it's one of the largest and also one of the most complete statistical adjustment models and it followed half a million people over 16 years.
0:12.8	Essentially people cooking with canola
0:15.0	had a lower risk of cardiovascular mortality
0:17.4	than people cooking with butter.
0:19.0	And then if you look at the canola and the olive oil,
0:21.6	they look identical.
0:22.6	The evidence certainly doesn't seem to support this idea that
0:25.6	canola oil is giving us heart attacks and strokes and these things you hear on
0:29.4	social media.
0:30.4	There was one trial that we included where everybody has had a fatty liver at baseline,
0:37.1	non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, so Nafel D, and then they were given olive oil or canola oil were the two exposures and in both groups
0:47.0	there was an improvement in Nafoldi metrics.
0:49.5	Pretty impressive 60 something to-something percent of participants went into the normal range for
0:57.4	for the liver metrics doesn't seem to compute at all with these ideas that it's making you
1:04.3	metabolically sick it's making you fat it's making you diabetic my shock with
1:10.4	where the evidence is and where the social media discourse is and what people are being exposed to consistently from the majority of influencers and then what's been shown scientifically is almost night and day.
1:24.0	When it comes to nutrition, there is a little more controversial than seed oils.
1:32.0	Within this category of plant-derived oils sits the notorious
1:36.2	canola or rape seed oil. Online you find many likening canola oil to machine
1:41.7	lubricant claiming that it's highly
1:43.8	inflammatory, causes cardio metabolic disease, and should be avoided like the
1:48.4	plague. Is this well supported by the evidence? Do we really need to fear canola oil? That's what I
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