The Seed Oil Panic Is Wrong: What Science Actually Says | Jessica Knurick

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Nutrition scientist Jessica Knurick watched her grandfather struggle with preventable health problems in his early sixties, and that experience revealed a brutal truth about why most nutrition advice fails the people who need it most. She's now exposing the seed oil panic and other viral health myths with actual science, and what she's discovered will completely change how you think about what you eat.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:11.7	Is there certain types of oils that are better than others in general when using for cooking?
0:18.6	Yeah, so olive oil is a good one, but also vegetable oils are fine to use for cooking.
0:25.6	So vegetable oil is...
0:26.5	That's what the research would suggest.
0:27.6	The vegetable oil is a seed oil.
0:29.7	Is what I'm hearing you said?
0:30.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:31.0	All vegetable oil is seed oil?
0:33.8	Yeah, so if you look at a vegetable oil, it'll have a bunch of different types of oil, and that will include seed oils.
0:40.3	Interesting.
0:41.3	Yeah.
0:42.3	So it'll include like safflower oil, sunflower oil, sunflower oil, canola oil. They call it rape seed oil in other countries.
0:50.3	So all of those are considered seed oils and also vegetable oils. Gotcha.
0:54.7	Yeah.
0:55.0	So if you look on a label, a food label, it's not going to say seed oils.
0:58.9	It's going to say either the individual oil or vegetable oil.
1:01.9	Interesting.
1:02.6	So based on research and science right now, putting vegetable oil in your stir fry or in your food
1:08.8	when you're cooking it is not harmful. Is that what I'm hearing
1:12.6	based on the research? Yeah. But everyone's saying that it's like the worst thing and you have to get it
1:17.3	out of all your foods and protein bar. It's without seed oil. It's like your greatest discovery
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