Unlocking The Truth About Vegetable Oils: A Conversation With Dr. Cate Shanahan, MD
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Cate Shanahan, MD, joins us in this episode to discuss how vegetable oils affect the body. As a Cornell-trained physician-scientist, Dr. Cate's work has inspired entire movements involving bone broth, live-culture ferments, and seed oil-free business empires – and she sits down to elaborate on some of her most intriguing discoveries…
In her latest book, Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back, Dr. Cate shows readers how a group of eight little-known oils cause the cellular damage underlying nearly all chronic diseases, exposes the corruption that misleads doctors and consumers into using them, and provides a clear roadmap to recovery and rejuvenation.
Are you ready to reframe your understanding of vegetable oil and take control of your health? Join us now to get started!
In this conversation, we cover:
- What essential fatty acids are, and how they impact the human body.
- How Dr. Cate's own health issues inspired her work as an educator.
- Why it is so important to get down to the root causes of various health conditions.
You can follow along with Dr. Cate and her work by visiting her website.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest today is Kate Channahan, MD. She's the author of a new book called |
| 0:44.9 | Dark Calaries. Now vegetable oils destroy our health and now we can get it back. She's a |
| 0:50.7 | Cornell trained physician scientist. |
| 0:53.0 | Her works have inspired movements, |
| 0:55.0 | including bone broth, live culture, ferments, |
| 0:58.0 | seed, oil-free business empires, etc. |
| 1:01.0 | She worked with NBA legend Gary Viti and created the |
| 1:04.0 | LA Lakers pro nutrition program and that's been emulated by elite championship |
| 1:08.7 | teams around the world. So this is going to be a great call. I started working my way through her book. |
| 1:13.7 | Very informative, very scary, but I believe very helpful. So welcome Kate. |
| 1:18.2 | Oh, hi. Well, thank you so much for inviting me on to your show. |
| 1:21.4 | Yeah, no problem. Well, if you would tell, just listeners a bit about your background, how did you come to even |
| 1:27.2 | be concerned or think about seed oils? |
| 1:29.2 | Yeah, so, well, I'm a family medicine doctor and before I went to medical school I was hoping to become somebody |
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