Dr. Cate on: The Four Pillars of World Cuisine
In this excerpt from the Primal Endurance Mastery Course, Dr. Cate Shanahan and Brad Kearns weigh in on the four pillars of world cuisine.
Good Fats vs Bad Fats: The Truth About Seed Oils
This page was created to serve as a resource listing good fats and oils versus bad fats and oils. The goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for discussions around why a given fat or oil is good or bad for human health, and to include recommendations for the healthiest cooking practices.
Can a low-PUFA Diet Really Increase Your IQ?
Learn how your diet may be affecting your IQ. We used to think that our IQ was fixed based on our genetics. But now we know that just as our genes can change during our lives, so can our neurons.
Migraine Headache Diet Treatments that Work: Cut Your PUFA Consumption
Today’s post will review two very interesting articles using very different sounding but actually similar strategies to improve migraine pain, low-fat vegan, versus targeted omega-3/omega-6 rebalancing
Dr. Cate on: Navigating Food Choices
Dr. David Perlmutter invites Dr. Cate Shanahan on Empowering Neurologist again to answer this crucial question more fundamental to our health than “What should I eat today?” It’s something we grapple with daily, and how we answer that question can set the tone for how we feel for days, weeks, or months.
Is Walking Safe with Plantar Fasciitis?
When active people get sore feet, the diagnosis is often plantar fasciitis and the prescription is often rest. This post describes how, if you have plantar fasciitis and are an active person, staying active might be more therapeutic than staying entirely off your feet.
Dr. Cate on: Why Vegan Athletes Get Injured & the True Human Diet
In this episode of Peak Human Podcast with Brian Sanders, he invited Dr. Cate Shanahan to the show where she talks about a wide variety of subjects, including fat vs. Glucose metabolisms and why vegan athletes get injured.
Overeating is Bad for Mitochondria: Calories Count, PUFA Calories Count More
We often overlook the fact that simply overeating puts a stress on the system (and PUFA-rich seed oils are the worst). I think we should include a fourth macronutrient: time between meals. The longer you can go without a meal or a snack or a beverage other than water, the healthier your mitochondria will be.
Birth Month and Autism Risk
An astute reader of Deep Nutrition points out the connection between holiday season indulgences in high carb and vegetable oil rich foods and increased risk of autism.
Vegetable Oil and Sugar Block Fat Burn and Mitochondrial Function
In 2017, mainstream medicine has taken giant step towards science backed advice. Meanwhile, sports nutrition still espouses that sugar is the best fuel for athletes, that low carb diets deplete glycogen stores, and that polyunsaturated fats are the healthy kind of fat.
Dr. Cate on: Why Kobe Bryant Drinks Bone Broth
Abel James from Fat-Burning Man Podcast invites Dr. Cate Shanahan to the show where she shares how Gwyneth Paltrow and Kobe Bryant, big-time celebs hopping on the broth train. Dr. Cate also shares how we helped Dwight Howard conquer sugar addiction.
Study Shows 100% Pre-Diabetes Remission With High Protein Diet
The first ever diet trial to 100% resolution of pre-diabetes with diet is neither low fat nor low carb. It’s high protein.
Fat Adapted Athletes Perform Better (video interview)
In this interview, we discuss the science behind real food-based, low-carb diets and sports performance. Additionally, we discuss the Four Pillars (common findings) of all healthy human diets
Dr. Cate on: Nutrition Expert With Tips On How To Eat Healthier
Dr. Cate Shanahan helps the Lakers eat better, and now she wants to do the same for you. In this interview on CBS Los Angeles, she shares her strategies and tips to help you improve your diet.
Dr. Cate on: Fat Adapted Athletes Perform Better
Mike Mutzel from High-Intensity Health interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan to discuss the science behind real food-based, low-carb diets and sports performance. Additionally, Dr. Cate discusses the Four Pillars (common findings) of all healthy human diets.
New Deep Nutrition – Available NOW!
If you’ve followed this website for any length of time, you probably noticed I don’t do a lot of posting. It’s not that I don’t like to help you stay up to date on the latest nutrition news. It’s that I always prefer to put diet information into its larger context to tell the whole story. When Luke and I set out to write the first edition of Deep Nutrition, that’s exactly what we hoped to do. When a major publisher expressed interest in re-releasing Deep Nutrition, that was very exciting because it gave me an opportunity to put all the…
Dr. Cate on: The Human Diet And How To Get Deep Nutrition
Shawn Stevenson and Jade Harrell invite Dr. Cate Shanhan to The Model Health show to discuss why analyzing healthy people is the missing link in today’s medicine. Dr. Cate also shares how Dr. Shanahan began advising the Los Angeles Lakers.
Statisticians Can Easily Mislead Doctors About Statin (or any) Drug Safety
Doctors don’t go to medical school to become expert at interpreting statistics. Yet most of the articles that tell us how safe drugs might be rely on complex statistical analyses that go far beyond what I learned in my one credit course on Statistics for Medical Practitioners.
