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Long before chronic disease management programs, emergency rooms, joint replacements, antibiotics, or even things like eyeglasses, people’s survival depended more directly on their own optimal health. Our ancestors would be acutely aware, far more-so than the average person today, how lack of nourishment affects growth and impairs health. Though they would not have known about DNA, they possessed the awareness to recognize cause and effect connections even if separated by years or decades. Among indigenous peoples today, specific foods are known to influence a child’s constitution and couples and their families go to great lengths to acquire those foods before conception and continuing through childhood and adolescence. Clearly, our ancestors could have done the same kinds of things. In doing so, in exploiting the Earth’s wild abundance to obtain a nutritional bounty, they would engineer bodies of extraordinary health and beauty. Today, we owe the length of our limbs, the shape of our eyes, the proper function of our organs—and all that makes us human—to our ancestors’ collective skill.
Deep Nutrition identifies the foods and techniques common to every culture and divides them into four categories, called the Four Pillars of World Cuisine. From the Maasai and ancient Egyptian to the Japanese and the French, you’ll learn how the same Four Pillars form the foundation of all the healthiest diets. Using the latest research in physiology and genetics, the authors explain why your family’s health depends on eating these foods. In a world of competing nutritional ideologies, Deep Nutrition gives us the full picture, empowering us to take control of our destiny in ways we might never have imagined.
Learn How:
- Your genes are always changing
- Traditional food creates beautiful bodies
- Beauty and health are connected
- We instinctively recognize the healthiest mates
- To see beyond calories and learn the language of food
- To loose weight and stay young
- To prevent cancer, heart disease, Alzheimers and more
- To use diet to turn your child’s behavior around
- To prepare the foods that have stood the test of time
- Symmetry and health are connected
- The cholesterol theory of heart disease created a sickness epidemic!
About The Authors
Luke Shanahan, MFA: Has studied enology and the culinary arts during and since graduate school. He has taught, lectured, and worked with chefs around the country and is currently working on a cookbook based on The Four Pillars of World Cuisine
Dr. Cate Shanahan: Trained at Cornell University’s Molecular Biology Program where she learned how nutrients direct physiologic growth. She has continued to study nutrition and alternative medicine since residency training in Tucson, AZ. Dr. Shanahan’s lecture’s have revolutionized how fellow health professionals think about nutrition and health.
Praise for Deep Nutrition:
Jo Robinson, Author ofThe Omega Diet, and Eat Wild.Com says:
“Immediately I was struck by the clarity and simplicity of the writing. I didn’t realize that fat cells could wander around the body and turn into different cell types. Fascinating. I’m going to jump on my stair-stepper and pound away!”
Sally Fallon, Author of Nourishing Traditions says:
“Extremely interesting and insightful; written in a brilliant, engaging, an witty style.”
Marjorie Tietjen, Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation says:
“Even readers who are very familiar with the works of Weston Price will still discover new and fascinating information within these pages. I enjoyed Deep Nutrition so much that I honestly did not want to finish it.”
JoAnn Deck, Vice President of Ten Speed Press says:
“Dr. Shanahan is the Michael Pollan of medicine, telling us what to eat and why to eat it.”
Dr. Ron Sigler, Medical Director of the Highline Medical Group in Seattle says,
“I have just finished reading Deep Nutrition and have already recommended it to one of my daughters with the intent to insist that all my 5 adult children read this book as well. Everyone was required to read Fast Food Nation and Omnivore’s Dilemma.
Dr. Lowell Gerber, Medical Director of the Freeport Cardiology clinic in Freeport, ME says,
I just finished reading Deep Nutrition, Twice. Dr. Shanahan provides a fascinating presentation of nutrition, genetics, anthropology, history, medicine, metabolism, and cooking. It is a book that I can refer to my patients as a resource, and to colleagues as a reference.
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[...] on that later prelude…may never get into the book, but, I will now provide info) It is called “Deep Nutrition” by Catherine and Luke Shanahan. Very interesting nutritional info and ideas, basically reminding us of how bad the [...]
Dr. Cate, I’m just getting to the end of Deep Nutrition, and found that many parts reinforced previous knowledge (in great detail!), and other parts were strange and new to me. One thing I’d love some clarification on is the notion of pluripotency of cells. My takeaway was that you were asserting that all cells have the potential to transdifferentiate from, say, fat to muscle or bone, or the other way around. Applying my layman’s eye to some of the footnotes, it seems to me that not all cells have such pluripotency, but rather that it might be limited to certain types of cells (mesenchymal stem cells) or specialized cells such as the epithelial cells in mammary glands.
Is the ability of cells to transdifferentiate therefore limited to a very few and specific kinds of cells, or are you indeed saying it is more of a universal phenomenon within the body? For instance, the remaining part of my “spare tire” could, through continuing the Four Pillars eating principles, transdifferentiate into bone and muscle? I find that incredible, and I’m not sure I follow the conclusion from the cites. Help?
Jim
It is incredible. Cell identity is driven by context, and cells placed in different context will alter their identity. By eating fewer carbs/trans fats and more nutrients combined with getting enough sleep and exercise to generate hormones and growth factors, your spare tire fat cells will empty out and some may actually de-differentiate into pre-adipocytes which can then become muscle, bone, and other cell types. According to the literature, it’s all possible. Heres some more cool research: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19088398 and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014482703005494
Plug dedifferentiation or transdifferentiation and some cell types into pubmed and read more. The ‘intelligence’ built into every cell is astounding.
Dr Cate,
In the list of oils to avoid there is no mention of sesame oil. Should I avoid this ingredient? I use it frequently in Chinese and japanese recipes.
Thanks.
Sesame oil is on the list of good oils P 14 of Food Rules and, that’s why its not on the bad list
Thanks! I couldn’t find any mention on “Deep Nutrition”. I just got “Food Rules”, but its not supposed to arrive until tomorrow. I’m very excited to open the shipping box, as I am about not having to get rid of that one oil
I just finished your book, Deep Nutrition and am going to go back over it today to highlight some things. Is there a list of food items with the grams of sugar? Not buying too many foods in packages these days, so will find it hard to calculate. If it’s in your book, I’ll search again, or maybe you could direct me to a list online or another book? Just had 1/3 cup of blueberries with my homemade plain whole milk yogurt and am wondering, “How much sugar did I just start my day with?”
Just finished reading your book and found it fascinating. I went out and bought some Bubbies Sauerkraut but had a question. I microwave some eggs every morning for breakfast and have been adding the sauerkraut. Am I destroying the nutrients in the sauerkraut by microwaving or am I ok?
Thanks,
Gerry
All heating can kill bacteria and damage nutrients, microwaving included. If you nuke it to steaming hot, there may not be many surviving bacteria. So I recommend just warming it enough to meld nicely with the eggs.
Is there a spanish version of Deep Nutrition? If not, what would it take to make that happen?
No spanish translation at this time. To make it happen would need a foreign literary agency interested in distribution rights to contact us. Or…a professional translator with lots of time on their hands would have to generously volunteer.
Hi Dr. Cate,
Really enjoying your book right now, as well as your podcasts with UGW and LLVLC. Just listened to your podcast with Jimmy where you spoke about the role of low carb in hormone balance. A few days ago a certain paleo person (ck) did a podcast on thyroid where he explained some studies which corellated low carb with a down regulation in t3 and t4. He was clear that it depends on the individual, but I am struggling with hypothyroid and not sure which way to go.
Comments?:)
If you haven’t already seen it, this post should add to your understanding: http://drcate.com/going-low-carb-too-fast-may-trigger-thyroid-troubles-and-hormone-imbalance/
Dear Dr. Cate,
I’ve just finished reading your excellent book. Thanks for putting all of this information in a succinct and concise manner that makes it accessible to all. I’m quite delighted to find the lipid hypothesis is being steadily debunked as I’m a big butter fan. I understand that we need saturated fats. However, I want to know what constitutes too much saturated fat and what are the health consequences in an otherwise healthy diet/lifestyle.
Kindest regards, John Jones (NZ)
I have been very impressed with your books so far, and have gotten them for the rest of my family! Do you have any plans to publish it in digital format? I would love to be able to “gift” it to other people on their iPads, and I would love to keep the food rules with me while I am still learning!
Thank you so much for the complements!
Our books are available on Kindle and we are in the process of making them available on iPad and other formats. We will announce the new arrival when available.
Hi Dr. Cate,
I just bought Deep Nutrition today on the Kindle and the tables with the tests at the end are too small to actually read even after zooming. (Tests to Measure Your Health) Do you have these available as PDFs? I’m pretty sad to have to miss out on this part of the book because they aren’t viewable on eInk Kindles. (And pretty bummed that I bought it on Kindle at all.)
Thanks!
-Kimberly
I am so sorry you are having this problem. Kindle converts the tables into images and the resolution just may make things appear blurry. I suspect others will have this problem so I will be finding a pdf for you and send that out as soon as possible to the email you provided and also make a downloadable file available on the website for anyone else having problems with their kindle viewing and meanwhile we will request that the kindle team fix this somehow. Thank you for contacting us about this issue.