The Truth About Seed Oils and How to Avoid Them with Dr. Cate Shanahan: Episode Rerun
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, we navigate the impact of seed oils on your health and how to make healthier choices with Dr. Cate Shanahan. You’ll hear us discuss: 1. The "hateful eight" toxic seed oils impacting your health 2. The impact of seed oils on mitochondria and hormones 3. Seed oils and menopause 4. Prioritizing nutritious foods over seed oils Dr. Cate Shanahan is a leading expert in nutrition and human metabolism with more than 20 years of clinical experience and a New York Times bestselling author of "The FatBurn Fix," "Deep Nutrition," and "Food Rules." Her specialty is addressing the root causes of metabolic damage and inflammation, which can lead to issues like autoimmunity, weight gain, diabetes, cancer, and accelerated aging. Alongside Dr. Tim DiFrancesco and NBA legend Gary Vitti, Dr. Cate created the PRO Nutrition program for the LA Lakers and helped develop a partnership between Whole Foods Market and multiple NBA teams. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | When I went to medical school, type 2 diabetes was called adult onset diabetes to distinguish it from type 1, which was called juvenile onset when you're younger. |
| 0:14.0 | But now more kids have type 2 diabetes than the juvenile onset type diabetes. It's crazy. And why? Well, I blame seed oils |
| 0:25.1 | first and foremost. And yes, there's other ingredients in the food supply that are bad and promoting all |
| 0:30.4 | of it. But the seed oils are the one thing that nobody is talking about and have been way |
| 0:36.5 | underestimated in terms of their role in making |
| 0:40.4 | people sick. Hello, I'm your co-host for today, Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am so excited to bring on |
| 0:46.6 | Dr. Kate Shanahan to answer all your questions about seed oils. Yes, seed oils. They are very |
| 0:53.0 | controversial. You've probably heard about them on social media and have a lot of questions. Yes, seed oils. They are very controversial. You've probably heard about them on |
| 0:55.5 | social media and have a lot of questions. Well, Dr. Shanahan is a board-certified family physician |
| 1:01.3 | with over 20 years in clinical experience. Her areas of expertise are in nutrition and human |
| 1:06.8 | metabolism. She's also a New York Times best-selling author. Now, Dr. Kate and I go in depth |
| 1:13.0 | into the different types of seed oils, what they actually do to the body, how we can get them |
| 1:17.2 | out of the body, and maybe what oils or fats are better for you to use every day or when you're |
| 1:22.8 | cooking, high-temperature cooking. So definitely give it a listen as I think you're going to learn a lot. |
| 1:28.5 | Before we get started, though, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty often on |
| 1:33.0 | this podcast. And that, of course, are supplements. There is a lot of confusion around supplements. |
| 1:39.5 | And you only want to take the best quality that uses top-tier certified manufacturers, and most |
| 1:45.2 | importantly, do third-party independent testing to make sure what's on the label is in the capsule. |
| 1:52.4 | That's why I've teamed up with new ethics formulations as their chief medical officer. |
| 1:57.0 | The team already had a strong history in the supplement world, but started the company to really |
| 2:01.9 | focus on bettering your health and helping to enhance your physique or performance goals. |
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