When we look pretty critically at the gold standard interventions that we do have where

people are fed different diets and were tracked to various endpoints, we don't see red meat consumption

really increasing the systemic inflammatory markers the way that is oftentimes claimed.

You do see some changes in cholesterol and lipoproteins, but the cholesterol heart disease kind of

linkage is getting weaker and weaker every day. There was just a really fascinating paper

looking at fatty acid consumption and the way that it changes cholesterol and lipoproteins and

that that is totally independent of cardiovascular disease risk. So consuming more saturated fat

does elevate cholesterol and lipoproteins and that is meaningless with regards to cardiovascular

disease risk relative to things like blood pressure, blood glucose levels and systemic inflammatory

markers. Hello and welcome to pursuing health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and

former CrossFit Games athlete. Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the

gap between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self.

This week's episode is another in a series of pursuing wild health episodes,

which I'm publishing in collaboration with doctors Mike Malin and Matt Dawson of the Wild's

Health Podcast. If you're interested in learning more about them, you can take a listen to episode

number 172 of the podcast where I interview Matt and Mike. In this episode, we sit down with Rob Wolf,

who you may know as a former research biochemist and two times New York Times and Wall Street

journal bestselling author of the Paleo Solution and Wired to Eat. He and his co-author Diana Rodgers

recently released their book, Sacred Cow, which explains why well-raised meat is good for us

and good for the planet. Now Rob is also a longtime CrossFit enthusiast and he is the co-founder of

the first and fourth CrossFit affiliates in the world. He's also transformed the lives of hundreds

of thousands of people around the world through his podcast books and seminars. He's known for his

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