Data Deception

Most nutrition experts claim that the majority of evidence shows seed oils are healthy. But that evidence is not real. Most nutrition experts overlook, or make excuses for, the selective use of flawed, self-reported dietary data that makes seed oils appear beneficial.

Are fruits and veggies equally healthy? When it comes to micronutrient density, fiber content, and metabolic impact, there’s a clear winner.

Table of ContentsNew study examines how different fats affect fat cells. Reporters and scientists hide the data on seed oil harms.This Study Doesn’t Look at Olive Oil in the Context of Normal Human DietsHere’s the distraction:A Sign of Adaptation — Not a DangerMaking These Wild Claims Prevents Other Scientists From Seeing The Evidence of Seed…

Medical science has misunderstood obesity for decades. It’s not the cause of insulin resistance. It’s the result. Learn how seed oils contribute, as described in my Energy Model of Insulin Resistance, published in Frontiers in Nutrition Science.

What a bummer. The day after Christmas, I took a fall and hurt my knee. At the time, I didn’t think much of it—just a bad bruise, maybe a strain. I kept walking on it, waiting for it to get better. But it didn’t. After a couple of months with no improvement, I finally got…

Table of ContentsIntroduction: Clearing Up Confusion About Omega-6 Linoleic Acid in Seed OilsThe real problem is OxidationThe Origins of the Omega-6 MisunderstandingThe Real Problem: Harsh Extraction and Refining Make Seed Oils Toxic (Damaging Their Fragile Fats, Including Omega-6 Linoleic Acid)Mechanical Extraction: Hexane Extraction: Dissolving Every Last DropRefining and Cleaning the OilMore Toxins Form After Leaving the…

Table of ContentsFrench fries are a beloved indulgence, but the toxic seed oils used to fry them can transform this treat into a health hazard.To understand any food’s impact on our health, we have to know what happens between the field and our plate.The high temperatures required for frying accelerate reactions, so toxins form much…

Table of ContentsWhy Seed Oils Are the Biggest Threat to Your HealthOxidative stress: the great disease promoter.Seed Oils Are Everywhere!Research linking these refined, high PUFA oils to disease receives almost no funding.Read my latest academic publication linking seed oils to metabolic disease and cancer. Why Seed Oils Are the Biggest Threat to Your Health Seed…

Table of ContentsJAMA Internal Medicine published the first-ever study comparing butter to seed oils. But they skewed the data to the point of absurdity.Exchanging 10 grams of butter for seed oil reduces total mortality and cancer mortality by 17%, while also reducing heart disease mortality.Butter and Seed Oil Intakes Difficult to Believe.Reported butter intake from…

Table of ContentsHangry is not normal hunger.Hypoglycemia makes us hangry.My research suggests our unhealthy food supply is making us hangry.Related: Want to know if you’re insulin resistant? It’s a simple blood test you can ask your doctor to do.Medical science is not even paying attention to hangry.Discovering the Effects of Toxic Processed Seed Oils: The…

Table of ContentsTLDR: I use and recommend Magnesium Oxide because it is more compact and easier to swallow. Also, being physically smaller, we only need to swallow a single pill. Studies claiming it doesn’t get absorbed are suspect.What types of magnesium supplements are there?Does the body use organic magnesium supplements better than inorganic ones?Animal studies…

Table of ContentsFellow members of the keto community, keto dieters everywhere, we need to talk.That’s why I’m so excited for the opportunity to partner with the Metabolic Health InitiativeFellow keto leaders: we must align our health advice with the science.But Wait…Why Does Atkins-Style Keto Work?Common False Claim about KETO:Have you heard of something that keto…

If you’re a health professional you should know that you can’t implicitly trust medical news outlets. They may be manipulating you!

Table of ContentsOlive Oil has a Low Smoke Point. Can you still cook with it?Invisible Oxidation Makes Oils Toxic BEFORE They Start to SmokeRefining Raises Smoke PointOlive oil smoke point, by grade.Removing Antioxidants Exposes Polyunsaturates to Toxin-Generating Oxygen ReactionsWhere do toxins in refined oils come from?Virgin Olive Oil Has A Lower Smoke Point Than Refined…

Since avoiding seed oils has become a trend, the newest trend debunks the idea that we need to avoid them. This post debunks the debunkers.

Table of ContentsYou might think salt makes you bloated. It’s actually something else.Ignoring How Healthy Kidneys Easily Deal With SaltA sprinkling of circular reasoning about salt.Disregarding toxins that damage kidneys.RBD Vegetable Seed Oils (The Hateful Eight) Contain Dangerous ToxinsThe Awful AldehydesOverlooking the role of malnutrition.How to make food cheaper.Making recommendations before doing any research.We need…

We can’t all exercise our way into that ideal body shape. Some of us can, but many of us are limited by the geometry of our bones.

The Blue Zones book has powerfully influenced medical thinking on nutrition. But the Blue Zones website and Adventist Healthcare system contradict the reality of people’s diets that are presented in the book itself.

Did you know that the cut off for “high” cholesterol used to be nearly twice as high as it is today? The number considered low enough has had to shift downward multiple times. Cholesterol-lowering “targets” are lower today than ever before. And lately, heart attacks are increasing.

If dairying began in the Paleolithic era, as I believe it did, then our genes have been depending on these nutrients for thousands of generations. Learn how your skeletal development can be sculpted by dairy products.

Breeding low fat animals has altered muscle metabolism, and contributed to flavorless meat for reasons that go way beyond the lack of fat.

Synthetic meat producers claim nutritional, ethical, and environmental benefits. The media often repeats the claims. Are they misleading us?

Is the calorie-free sweetener erythritol safe? The FDA did not evaluate long-term use, and new research suggests it may cause blood clots in people with high blood pressure and other risk factors.

Is fasting more effective for weight loss than regular dieting and calorie counting? Dr. Cate reviews the most important studies and wraps with her recommendations based on 20 years of experience.

If you struggle to lose weight you may feel like your metabolism is “slowing down.” But what’s really going on is your metabolism is breaking down. This is not normal aging, and it’s fixable. But you have to understand what’s broken if you want to fix it

Do you feel weird after drinking flavored sparkling water on an empty stomach? Find out about the new leeway the natural flavor industry has to add drug-like compounds to our drinks. I’ll focus on a natural flavor called linalool.

Kelly, from the Be Well podcast, interviews Dr. Cate on the hateful eight toxic factory-made seed oils. But the conversation also takes listeners all over the nutritional spectrum in this great conversation.

People with lactose intolerance can actually enjoy many delicious types of dairy products. Find out what dairy products are naturally lactose free, what has the most lactose, and what strategies people are using to become more lactose tolerant.

Library of videos on statin harms and how the industry continues to suppress the truth about these cholesterol-lowering pills.

Find out why seed oils make sunburned skin more inflamed and how avoiding them protects your collagen and keeps you looking young

Toxicologist finds same toxins in French Fries cooked in seed oils and cigarettes. This may explain why fries are the most fattening food.

To lose weight we need to burn more body fat than we build. But the hateful 8 seed oils block fat burning. Find out how.

Jack Murphy invites Dr. Cate Shanahan, MD, to discuss her book Deep Nutrition. Dr. Cate also shares how food and environment affect your epigenetics and could create a separate nutritional class in America.

Going through menopause is miserable for millions of women. But it can be (almost) a breeze! if you eat to optimize your metabolic health. In fact, while I was living in Hawaii, I noticed a particular group of patients breezed through menopause. Discover their secrets!

All the answers to your health questions about how seed oils are harmful to your health. And which vegetable oils and fats are good and which are bad.

Infant formula is 98% ultra-processed oil, sugar, and protein powder. Homemade infant formula can help a child thrive in many of the same ways as breast fed babies.

Parents are struggling to find baby formula after recalls & supply chain issues left store shelves empty. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says homemade recipes are unsafe… but do parents have any healthy options? NYT bestselling author Dr. Cate Shanahan shares her nutrition advice LIVE on Ask Dr. Drew

Megan Kelly interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan to discuss diet and nutrition, the importance of avoiding snacking, and the truth about “metabolic flexibility.” Dr. Cate also answers questions on how to apply diet and nutrition to kids, why walking is so important, how to exercise without a gym, and more.

Dr. Cate gives you the peer-reviewed research revealing cholesterol pills are much more dangerous to your brain than doctors have been led to believe.

Comparing the nutritional value of almond, coconut, oat, rice and soy milk to cow’s milk reveals a clear winner in the plant-based milk-alternative category. But is milk really causing your problems?

David Gornoski interviews Dr. Cate to talk about the primary cause of metabolic damage in our bodies, namely the effects of PUFAs from seed and vegetable oils on our immune system and more.

In this episode, we explain how your food determines the health, fitness, and beauty of your children, and the warped financial incentives of modern fiat medicine.

Four of my best videos that explain how vegetable seed oils are the root cause behind conditions currently blamed on genetics and bad luck.

Today’s obesity and disease epidemics are the results. Yet Harvard denies any connection between this experimental processed oil diet, obesity, and chronic disease. This lecture with Dr. Cate will enable listeners to recognize how experts at prestigious institutions tricked the public and more.

Zero Acre Farms invites Dr. Cate Shanahan to have a presentation on how unstable fatty acids from seed oils can build up in our body fat and why that makes us gain weight and develop inflammatory diseases.

Table of ContentsMore people get asthma as adults than ‘grow out’ of asthma they had as kids.Adults can get “cough variant” asthma even if they never had asthma as a kid.What does it mean to “grow out” of asthma?Don’t wait until you wheeze. Ask for a Rescue InhalerVisit your doctor for a prescription every year to…

In his podcast episode of Keto Kamp with Ben Azadi, he invited Dr. Cate Shanahan to reveal the 8 worst oils to consume on your diet. Dr. Cate also talks about these seed oils, also called vegetable oils, and how they create more inflammation in your body than sugar.

Kids need love—that goes without saying. But kids need good nutrition too, and that very often is left unsaid in the conversations over the USDA’s National school lunch program. Or, only raised as a follow-up after what it costs, who is paying, and its calorie content. Jesse Watters hosts a National news and talk show…

Soy lecithin is unavoidable in all but a few chocolates. How important is it to avoid? What are the best brands of chocolate?

Sarah Kleiner interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan to discuss how seed oils are slowing down your metabolism and ruining your health by contributing to rapid aging, insulin resistance, and mental health disorders. Dr. Cate also shares how we can fix what’s broken about our metabolism.

Thin people are very often protein deficient, especially women. Learn how much protein you need, where to get plant protein, the pitfalls of protein powders, and a few more fun facts about protein.

Ben Azadi from Keto Kamp interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan as she reveal 8 inflammatory fats to avoid on the ketogenic diet at all costs. Dr. Cate also discusses the dangers of fish oil, the best fats in keto & more.

Dave Asprey from Bulletproof Radio invites Dr. Cate Shanahan to talk about the benefits of healthy animal-based fats and the destructive effects unleashed on the human body from their toxic cousins, vegetable oils. 

Milk and cheese are two of the healthiest fast foods I know. But many people are lactose intolerant, have milk allergies, or other reasons that dairy gives them trouble.  A sad thing, because dairy is the ultimate healthy fast food. I recently composed a post (complete with video) explaining why we develop allergies to processed food proteins.…

Beef stock is harder to make than chicken stock, but when you reduce it down and pour over steak, the flavor is to die for!

One of the unintended consequences of the low-fat era has been to deprive us of the nutrients that support our collagen-rich tissues. Collagen supplementation is therefore not a fad, but rather a way to provide nutrients from this missing food group.

Find out what fish oil supplement companies don’t want you to know about the effects of processing on omega-3 fatty acids. Learn how to find the best fish oil.

Unrelenting brain fog. Disabling body aches for weeks after the fevers have cleared. Recurring daily headaches that make it hard to concentrate. Vertigo and tinnitus that you’ve never had before. If you’re young, healthy, eat well, and—especially important—have been avoiding vegetable oils, COVID is fairly mild. But when it’s not mild, it can hit hard.

Have you heard all the rage about bone broth? From Gwyneth Paltrow to Kobe Bryant, big-time celebs are hopping on the bone broth train. Not to mention, our guest this week helped Dwight Howard conquer sugar addiction. You’re about to learn how.

Processed food can make us fat, but it may have effects that are more profound, including the disruption of facial geometry.

Dr. Cate Shanahan, MD, presented how saturated fat took cigarettes’ blame, toxic seed oils, and the dirty AHA at the Journey Through Our Evolutionary Past event at the Eastern Shore Food Lab.

In this podcast episode with Dr. Michelle Gordon and Dr. Cate Shanahan, they talk about the dangers of seed oils and their history. They also discuss how saturated fat got labeled as ‘bad’ and the role that nutrition plays in migraines.

New studies show fatty liver makes COVID not just deadly but also disabling by increasing the chance you’ll develop “long covid.” You can reverse fatty liver to prevent long Covid by avoiding seed oils, cutting soda and juice, and keeping alcohol under 4 drinks per week. Of the above three factors, the most important is…

Shanna Swain, author of Countdown, makes some shocking claims about human genitalia and the future of the human race. She focuses on persistent environmental toxins, but there’s a more powerful factor that reproductive endocrinologists like Swain know little to nothing about.

Angela Foster interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan on why she helps people to feel their best through a healthy diet. She also shares great content on the changes to our diet and why it’s worth looking at traditional diets to understand more about how and what a healthy human diet looks like. In a world where often the information we access is incomplete, this is an excellent opportunity to understand more about creating a starting point for a healthy human diet.

Many people who didn’t think they like yogurt really like Greek yogurt, because it’s is thicker, creamier and less sour than regular yogurt. But is it as good for you as regular yogurt? The answer may surprise you!

Brian Sanders of Peak Human Podcast interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan and Tucker Goodrich, and they cover how people get fat & sick down to the mitochondrial level. We also discuss the different players in this process, including seed oils (or, more specifically, excess omega-6), refined grains, and sugar.

Your ability to control cravings takes energy. Brain energy. But if you’ve been eating seed oils, they can deprive your brain of energy, hijacking your willpower.

In part 3 of this series exposing the truth about cholesterol I show you the documents the American Heart Association use to trick doctors into believing there is ample evidence linking cholesterol to heart disease.

In Part 2 of this series we learn about a large human clinical trial that the American Heart Association leadership buried. This trial disproves the cholesterol theory of heart disease, shows that lower cholesterol correlates with greater death, and offers solid evidence that vegetable oils increase your risk of dying.

In this jam-packed episode, Connie Nightingale interviews Dr. Cate and talks about epigenetics, our medical system, and how one man’s thoughts turned the whole world into fat-a-phobiacs, polyunsaturated fats, PUFAs, and more!

Part 1 of my 3 article series explains that cholesterol is a nutrient and not the root cause of heart disease. The root cause is a chemical process called oxidation. After all, smoking doesn’t raise cholesterol. It causes oxidation.

The company I work for, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, takes employee health seriously. We also take personal liberties very seriously and have never required employees to get flu shots. I was asked to review the pros and cons of flu shots and present this information to the ABC Family.

Unknown to most mayo lovers, the mayo in the store is a metabolism-breaking fat bomb, greased up with highly toxic seed oils.

Vanessa Spina, SNS of Fast Keto Podcast invites Dr. Cate to discuss the underlying problems that cause metabolic damage and inflammation, leading to autoimmunity, weight gain, diabetes, cancer, and accelerated aging processes. Dr. Cate also discuss how PUFAs are a perfect catalyst that makes the process faster.

Table of ContentsMission:Basic Principles: Refined, High-PUFA Oils Promote Oxidative Stress The Excessive Seed Oil HypothesisHistorically adipose tissue contained a fraction of the PUFA found in adipose tissue today.Reference supporting the notion that excessive PUFA intake causes oxidative stressHow Seed Oils Lead to Obesity and Diabetes:Seed Oils Make You Crave Carbs, SugarHow Genetics Plays a Role: The…

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dave interviews Dr. Cate to talk about good fats and bad fats. Dr. Cate also discusses the confusion about how fats affect your health, what kinds of fats your body needs, and why seed oils aren’t ever the right choice.

In this episode, we reveal how much omega 3 vs omega 6 we really need, why fish oil is toxic, metabolism myths & more.

Dr. David Perl Mutter from Empowering Neurologist interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan to discuss her new book and makes it very clear that we need to reassess our notions of fearing dietary fat and embrace the idea that making good decisions as it relates to the type of fats we consume will help ensure our health.

Luke and I cover Joe Biden’s mental health, cognitive function and potential risk factors for dementia

Dr. Cate Shanahan returns to the Fat-Burning Man show with Abel James to help us look at some everyday ingredients that we would do well to remove from our diets altogether, including vegetable oils.  

Shawn Stevenson from The Model Health Show invites Dr. Cate Shanahan on his podcast to discuss how to make your body crave exercise. Dr. Cate also discusses how body fat is the number one determinant of our health.

In this book, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.

In this book, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.

Why do African Americans die from COVID at roughly twice the rate of whites? The mainstream media pundits won’t bring up anything immediately actionable by a single individual.

In this episode, we share some health information to millions on Bill Maher. We discuss ancestral nutrition, running on fat, the dangers of seed oils, developing a strong immune system, and being metabolically healthy for life.

Every Friday in June I will be sending out a free signed copy of any one of my books with a personal message to one lucky reader to either keep for themselves or give to someone in need.

4 Minute Read In case you missed it, last week I spoke to Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time to impeach the poster boy of the junk food/pharmaceutical-industrial complex—seed oils (aka vegetable oils). I also threw down a challenge: If anyone in America has been diligently avoiding vegetable oils for five years and got hit…

Eliminating the eight high-PUFA seed oils that are overabundant in the food supply is the NUMBER ONE best thing you can do to help your immune system beat coronavirus. Here’s why.

If you are worried about coronavirus, you should be more worried about low cholesterol according to a new study that shows lower HDL and LDL predicts poor outcomes

If you want to get off sugar you need to know if your metabolism depends on it as a cellular fuel. Learn 11 common signs of metabolic sugar dependence, and why fixing your metabolism is the first step to controlling a sweet tooth.

Dr. Paul Saladino of Fundamental Health interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan to discuss how coronavirus kills healthy people. Dr. Cate also shares the problem with medical specialties, Ancel Keys and the demonization of fat.

In this episode of Health Coach Radio with Erin Power and Laura Rupsis, they invited Dr. Cate Shanahan to talk about metabolic health and my area of expertise. They fast-tracked releasing this episode of Health Coach Radio because metabolic dysfunction is an alarming risk factor for the COVID-19 virus.

Table of ContentsGOOD NEWS! Physical copies of Deep Nutrition and The FATBURN Fix sold out from Amazon but ebooks and audiobooks are still available. Deep Nutrition is available from BooksAMillion.com and The FATBURN Fix is available from Barnes and Noble. Food Rules is available in all formats on Amazon.This article coversWhy coronavirus is “like a flu”…

It’s not you that wants to overeat. It’s not you that doesn’t have the energy to exercise. It’s your metabolism. If you’ve gained and been unable to lose or lost and regained, it’s not lack of willpower. It’s lack of FATBURN.

I’m definitely NOT saying tonic water works to prevent coronavirus! Here’s why I think it might do more than nothing.

Brad Kearns of Get Over Yourself Podcast interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan to explain just why the nasty industrial seed oils (canola, soybean, corn, etc.), which are still very prevalent in the diet thanks to widespread use in restaurants and processed foods, will royally mess up the number one attribute for healthy living.

Shawn Stevenson of The Model Health Show invites Dr. Cate Shanahan on his show again to discuss the number one risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Dr. Cate also shares how vegetable oils can promote inflammation and more.

Table of ContentsPage Content:What is Lecithin and why is it in so many foods?Is soy lecithin bad (high PUFA)? What about Sunflower?How much soy lecithin is there in chocolate, ice cream and other products?Should I avoid chocolate or other foods that contain soy lecithin?What about other problems with soy like GMOs and phytoestrogens?What is Lecithin…

The whole concept of smoke point may have been created by the edible oil industry to sell us their cheap, flavorless and (now we know) unfortunately quite toxic products.

In this episode of Futuretech Podcast, Richard Jacobs interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan to explain why the meats we typically have available to us are subpar (our pets often eat better than us!) and why it is best to raise meat yourself or get it from a local farmer. Dr. Cate also suggests the option of avoiding meat altogether and eating lots of herbs and spices

Advocates for Plant-Based diets, as well as advocates for low-carb and keto diet joined by Dr. Cate Shanahan, claims we forgot how to hunt, fish, and make bone broth/stock. She also talks about America’s Health crisis.

The origin of the idea that cholesterol and saturated fat cause heart attacks is bizarre. It involves a US President and a former eel physiologist who put cigarettes in the US military K-rations and got millions of WWII soldiers addicted to tobacco.

I found three websites loaded with useful, time saving ideas for making good, lower carb, high healthy fat (and keto) foods.

Mellisa Ambrosini invites Dr. Cate Shanahan on her podcast to talk about the silent killer in your food that way too many are consuming every day, what this silent killer does to your body, and more.

If you’ve been wondering what’s up with Dr Cate, here’s a brief summary of what’s going on and where you can go to listen to Dr Cate discuss how low-carb, keto, Paleo and foodies can help their vegetarian and vegan friends optimize their health without changing teams.

Mellisa Ambrosini invites Dr. Cate Shanahan on her podcast to talk about the silent killer in your food that way too many are consuming every day, what this silent killer does to your body, and more.

Dr. Mark Bubbs invites Dr. Cate Shanahan on the Performance Podcast to discuss how crucial your diet and food choices are to your DNA and health, how traditional diets provide insights into the optimal human diet, and more.

In this excerpt from the Primal Endurance Mastery Course, Dr. Cate Shanahan and Brad Kearns weigh in on the four pillars of world cuisine.

Mike Matthews from Muscle for Life Podcast interviews Dr. Cate Shanahan to discuss the two biggest problems with most people’s diets. Dr. Cate also shares one simple dietary change everyone can make to improve their health immediately and possibly even body composition.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The first ever diet trial to 100% resolution of pre-diabetes with diet is neither low fat nor low carb. It’s high protein.

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 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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

There’s never been any credible evidence to support the idea that eating eggs is generally unhealthy. In fact, some evidence supports the opposite; that egg-eaters have lower cholesterol than non egg-eaters. I myself was surprised that it had been studied at all, because the results were not widely reported.

Are you watching your cholesterol? Then you might be interested to read this story, describing the American Heart Association’s role in creating mass cholesterol-phobia, including evidence that they actively suppressed information that would have changed the course of medical history.

THE MOST common cause of all tummy pain and belly aches that I see in busy people is not food allergies, gluten intolerance or even irritable bowel. It’s called functional constipation.

American’s are now consuming 1000x more soy oil than we did 100 years ago. Soy oil promotes oxidative stress, which makes it more fattening than it’s caloric content would suggest.

If you’ve had bothersome breast pain that’s been diagnosed as nothing serious and are now wanting to know what to do about it, this article is for you. This article will address what you can do to alleviate the two most common causes of benign breast pain: Cyclic breast pain occurring around your period. Cyclic pain…

The Low Carb Down Under invites Dr. Cate Shanahan where she shares the dramatic declines in the health of her patient’s bone structure, immune-system function, and behavioral development in subsequent generations of patients in the same family. We also attribute these changes to the two most potent toxins in the food supply: Vegetable oils and sugars.

Reverse Atherosclerosis, Prevent Heart Attacks, Clear Your Arteries!

Have you had a heart attack?

Do you have a stent?

Do cholesterol medications make you tired or forgetful?

Heart disease is a MANUFACTURED problem. You CAN reverse it.

If you or someone you know has been hospitalized this year you might have noticed that essential information is often poorly communicated and the cost of care can be shocking. How to cope?

If you are someone with heart disease, or are at risk for heart disease or simply want to make the right nutritional choices, this article will help you understand how statisticians have misled us into being afraid of natural saturated fats, and fats in general.

Today’s post is designed to air out some of the points of contention about Paleo, to best assure your Paleo plans result in you enjoying the success you are hoping for.

I’ve written quite a bit about the Paleo diet over the years, but never a simple primer for people who are completely new. So this is long overdue!

Female athletes getting an average of 257 grams of dietary sugar/carb are encouraged to eat more. Sugar is toxic, so this is an unhealthy practice.

Primal Blueprint recently started selling mayonnaise! So I’ve been eating a lot of mayo. And it dawned on me that my heaping teaspoons might be much bigger than the serving size that says 100 calories on the label. So I did a quick experiment to learn how many calories of mayo it takes to make canned tuna yummy.

Cholesterol is now blamed for breast cancer. Learn what the science quoted in the media actually says.

It’s hard to be terrified when you’re laughing! With some training and practice, the principles of improv can be harnessed to help social anxiety sufferers enjoy lasting recovery

Compared to non milk drinkers, those who drank the most milk, had the least loss of joint space by the end of the 4 year study period. Every increase of 10 glasses per week was associated with 0.06 mm less decline in joint space width over the entire 4 years.

As a doctor, I’ve discovered that most chronic conditions occur because two thirds of our calories come either toxic seed oils or blood sugar elevating carbohydrates and sweets. These are themain ingredients in junk food. But many products containing these same unhealthy ingredients are disguised as health foods.

One of the most distressing things about practicing medicine these days is the blind faith that most people, doctors and patients, have in cholesterol pills like Lipitor, Crestor, Vytorin, and Zocor, just to name a few of the most popular statin drugs available today. This faith comes not from gullibility, but from carefully crafted drug…

Angelina Jolie’s medical choice was a brave one, and the decision to share it even braver. However it looks as though, if my sources are accurate, it appears there is little benefit, actually no benefit, to prophylactic mastectomy (prophylactic meaning to prevent ever developing cancer) over screening in terms of mortality. Was Jolie’s choice influenced by culture more than by the science? And will her decision spark of a conversation that moves us in a new direction?

Recent evidence suggests that people taking calcium supplementation are more likely to develop heart attacks, strokes, kidney stones, and painful bone spurs affecting their soft tissues and joints. Learn why this would be and what you should do to keep your bones healthy and strong.

Table of ContentsTo be, or not to be, labeled Paleo: that is the question.I’m thrilled to have been invited to be a speaker. And I think it’s time I made one thing clear:Canola oil may be the farthest thing from Paleo ever invented.So are you Deep Paleo? Here’s the test:ADDENDUM A superficial understanding of the…

In addition to all their athletic accolades, Los Angeles Lakers may be on course to make sports nutrition history by ditching powder and processed in favor of whole foods.

Rich Food, Poor Food, a new book by Jayson and Mira Calton, answers many of the practical shopping questions my health-conscious patients ask.

I was recently surprised to learn that there’s never been any compelling research showing that routine flossing offers oral health benefits.

Perhaps because many still believe corn and soy are the foundation of a heart healthy diet (and GMO dependence is a logical extension of monoculture dependence), CA Prop 37 did not pass. Better perhaps to simply avoid soy- and corn-based products.

It seems counterintuitive that we need to eat (natural) fats to burn fat, but we do. You are what you eat, but that’s not the whole story! Many people on a low-fat diet lose their ability to burn fat, though they can still store it very effectively.

The best way to lose weight is to avoid empty calories. But even nutrient-dense foods can, for some people, be converted to body fat. Dr Cate shares solutions.

Who has influenced your health the most over the last year?

If you’re listening to Sean’s summit and are full of new questions, don’t miss your chance to quiz DrCate about anything real-food related, live on Sean’ s show Friday the 13th at 12 noon Pacific time. (Since it’s not safe to travel anyway, stay home and call in).

Sean Croxton has put together an amazing series of interviews and this summit offers you a chance to ask the experts questions, live! Plus, the Low-Carb Poop Out Contest continues with Round Two: More stories means more winners!

Are you following a low carb diet and running into troubles? Learn the most common reasons cutting carbs causes fatigue and share your story to win autographed copies of Dr Cate’s books!

The cause of gluten intolerance is not gluten. It’s immune system dysfunction. Learn why your immune system starts to go off track, and what you can do to right your immune system’s wrongs.

Breastfeeding but thinking of quitting? If you worry about aluminum in vaccines, you may be surprised at how much aluminum is found in popular infant formulas.

Germs have been strategizing against the effects of antimicrobial agents from a variety of sources (including other microbes) for billions of years. So as far as bacteria are concerned, manmade antibiotics represent just another challenge, the most recent of a long series of biological puzzles to solve. Instead of killing good and bad bacteria (like MRSA) indiscriminately with antimicrobials, it makes more sense to support your immune system and the good bacteria who will fight off the bad guys for you!

Twenty years ago diabetes was assumed to be a genetic disorder. Now we understand that diabetes is a consequence of unhealthy diet and other lifestyle factors. Just as those of us physicians in the low-carb community currently use diet to prevent and even reverse diabetes and its complications, I believe we will soon see similar progress in treating and preventing autism.

Canola oil can constitute up to 1/3 of the calories in even a high-end restaurant meal, making your $50 plate a health hazard. Luke and I are on a campaign to get this trans-fat containing “neutral” oil out of restaurants. Take back the tables! Wouldn’t you love it if there were restaurants where people who care about their health could dine with confidence?

This week I got a letter from a newlywed couple telling me how happy they were to learn the specific dietary changes they can make to better ensure the health of their future baby. Most people who read Deep Nutrition, I’m happy to say, wind up liking it. But every once in a while we get a hate mail or a negative review on Amazon explaining in explicit detail exactly why we should pack our bags and return to whatever corner of Hell we came from.

Listen live to Dr Cate on Sean Croxton’s Paleo summit Saturday March 3! If you’re considering Paleo (a low-carb, grain-free diet) my latest post will discuss my recommendations about who needs to avoid wheat and who doesn’t.

Some folks who’ve taken the Primal leap—particularly those who were previously on a high-carb diet—have been faced with unexpected side effects waving them back to the world of bread, sugary fruits and sweet potato casserole. Dr Cate discusses newly discovered thyronamine compounds that trigger a hibernation sydrome.

The epidemic of obesity is also an epidemic of hormone malfunction, including thyroid, testosterone, estrogen, growth hormone, cortisol, and more.
If you eat a Standard American Diet, not only are your fat-burn enzymes likely to be totally blocked, your hormonal systems fail to communicate properly and the effect is like a kind of accellerated aging.

A few decades ago, people of Paleo were universally against dairy. Today, the attitude towards dairy is undergoing a transformation. Still, the official word on dairy is a luke-warm maybe rather than the resounding yes I think it deserves to be. I believe many of us can add dairy into our diet not just for good health, but also to more accurately reproduce a true Paleolithic era diet.

If you are like most Americans, you’ve made plenty of weight loss resolutions over the years and failed to follow through. It’s probably not that you lack willpower; it’s that you never trained your body to burn fat.

The headlines claim that Pippa might be even more beautiful than Kate. But based on her relative lack of dynamic symmetry, I have to predict that she is the less healthy of the two (all things in their diet being equal).

The Paleo diet, also known as the Primal diet or the Ancestral diet, is a low-carb, high-protein diet that’s helping people all over the modernized world rid themselves of excess pounds and prescription medications. If you don’t have friends or relatives following a Paleo diet now, chances are you will very soon.

A lot of folks keen on losing weight have been convinced that a diet low in fat and protein and high in carbohydrates is the way to go. Seems intuitive, doesn’t it?: Don’t eat fat and you won’t get fat. That’s why, odds are, this year someone at your Thanksgiving table will be giving thanks…

My latest post on coconut oil can help you determine if you should add coconut to you diet for weight loss, thyroid health, or other metabolism-optimizing purposes.

Luke reveals how his appearance has altered his life, and why Deep Nutrition highlights science showing that looks matter to more than just our ego, and why the ideal dietary program must be one that provides for ideal growth. When doctors advise pregnant women about a good diet for their baby’s future, if they get it wrong, not only will the pregnancy suffer, the child’s growth will suffer and he or she may not be as tall, as strong, as smart, or as attractive.

Luke reveals how his appearance has altered his life, and why Deep Nutrition highlights science showing that looks matter to more than just our ego, and why the ideal dietary program must be one that provides for ideal growth. When doctors (we get an average of 1 credit hour of nutrition training) advise pregnant women about a good diet for their baby’s future, if they get it wrong, not only will the pregnancy suffer, the child’s growth will suffer and he or she may not be as tall, as strong, as smart, or as attractive.

New insights into the cause of guten intolerance can help those suffering from all food allergies recover faster.

The China Study advises a vegan diet but author T. Colin Campbell also admits it cuts a woman’s hormone levels so low that it stunts growth, delays puberty, and leads to early menopause. Dr Cate advises caution for anyone on a vegan diet.

Dr Cate and Luke have always wanted to live in Napa, CA. Now’s our chance!

When insurance companies pay doctors based on their prescribing patterns, you may not be told about potential medication side effects. This is particularly true when it comes to side effects of cholesterol medications called statins.

CNN keeps airing “The Last Heart Attack,” in which Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells the story of how and why President Bill Clinton was put on a vegan diet by Dr. Dean Ornish, and how Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s #1 selling book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease echos the same dietary advice. As you know, reversing disease is…

Whether you are a fitness guru, athlete, or recovering couch potato, a ketogenic diet can help you push your body farther and faster.

Grass fed steak is not marbled, and therefore easy to overcook which produces a gamey flavor that many people don’t like. We recommend cooking your grass fed steaks no more than medium!

In his interview with TV Guide, Bourdain said, “the worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen. She revels in unholy connections with evil corporations and she’s proud of the fact that her food is f—ing bad for you.”

As expected, most of the media response has focused on Paula Deen’s love of butter (as well as sugar and deep-fried foods). But they’re missing Bourdain’s larger point.

For gardeners — and gardener’s neighbors — coping with the mid summer zucchini run, you may think you’ve got too much zucchini until you’ve tried this delicious no-noodle, low-carb optionally vegetarian lasagne. (Just skip the pepperoni if you’d prefer the vegetarian version.) We ate this low-carb lasagne as a side with baked chicken, actually we…

Taking the most rudimentary tenets of eating and flipping them over like organic flapjacks, Dr. Catherine Shanahan, of Bedford, illustrates the correlations between “eating mindfully” and establishing an uncomplicated diet – especially as we lumber through the dog days of summer.

TRIM Program participants have voted these recipes as their favorites! Clicking on recipes will link you to an outside website called Sparkpeople.com–a huge website with many recipes only a few of which are suitable for TRIM program participants. Those are all included here at DrCate.com as either breakfast, lunch, or dinner selections. Dinner Menu Selections Seared Pork Chops Great…

TRIM Program participants have voted these recipes as their favorites! Clicking on recipes will link you to an outside website called Sparkpeople.com–a huge website with many recipes only a few of which are suitable for TRIM program participants. Those are all included here at DrCate.com as either breakfast, lunch, or dinner selections. Lunch Menu Selections Salmon Salad Use bone-in…

TRIM Program participants have voted these recipes as their favorites! Clicking on recipes will link you to an outside website called Sparkpeople.com–a huge website with many recipes only a few of which are suitable for TRIM program participants. . Those are all included here at DrCate.com as either breakfast, lunch, or dinner selections. Breakfast Menu Selections Buttermilk Scrambled Egg…

The old model describes arteries as so many mechanical tubes that have no way to protect themselves from the inevitable clogging that comes from the consumption of cholesterol and saturated fat. The other, new model sees arteries as living dynamic tissue that, in the context of a healthy diet, is capable of growth, repair, and rising to the challenge of rigorous exercise.

In 12 minutes flat we went from hungry to well-fed, using this steamed mahimahi recipe with tarragon beurre-blanc sauce.

In much of the world, urban homesteading is an intrinsic aspect of daily life. The fact that people living below the poverty line in Africa, Asia, and South America still produce healthier babies than their counterparts in America should tell us something about the value of home-grown food and the farming skills involved in producing it.

We’ve all grown up equating sugar to energy, but new research suggests our bodies are engineered to run on fat…

Coconut oil provides lauric acid, which just may be the key that unblocks certain metabolic pathways often blocked by trans fat or excessive carb consumption

Learn how bad fats promote the buildup of stubborn fat around your intestines, and what you need to do, diet-wise, to start clearing it out.

Healthy lasting weight loss depends on cutting carbs, switching out good fats for bad, and adding back missing elements. These ten steps provide a framework for you to adapt almost any other diet you already enjoy, from Paleo to Primal to Atkins to Vegetarian.

The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, which has recently tarnished its reputation by refusing to publish articles unfavorable to popular prescription drugs, is barreling forward this week with its anti-natural, anti-health approach to medicine in asserting that vitamin D should not be universally recommended for postmenopausal women with low levels of vitamin D, and stating…

Higher fat diets in pregnancy appears to benefit learning and immune system. Yet in spite of the evidence to the contrary the researchers concluded high-fat diets are harmful.

Little wonder people eat fewer veggies than starches and sweets. Even though we all know they’re great for us, they’re more expensive and making them taste their best requires time and the use of natural fats, which we keep hearing over and over are bad for us.

Inbreeding is supposed to be a bad thing. That’s why researchers were startled to discover the extent of inbreeding evident among residents of the orderly and not-exactly-lascivious Island nation of Iceland.

My thinking on hormone replacement is that if a woman is having uncomfortable hot flashes and can’t sleep, then hormones are likely to help and should be used (preferably natural hormones). Hormones are not a “life extension” tool.

Some sociologists and psychologists say we favor attractive people based on advertising and our image-saturated world, while others say it’s biology and these preferences exist to hep us select the most genetically fit mates.

If you have Alzheimer’s or even a family history of Alzheimer’s, your best bet is to treat your brain to a healthy, inflammation-fighting diet.

Worried you child may be depressed? Want to help them? Take them to a beautiful place outside. Nature heals.

Calcium supplements have been found to cause heart attacks. If you have osteoporosis, you may wonder: What should I be doing for my bones?

Collagen is an overlooked factor in bone health, and a missing food group from the American diet.

Abnormal sexual development from unclear cause, environmental changes suspected. According to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, 1 in 10 girls in second and third grade, of Caucasian descent, showed stage 2 breast development (small mounds of tissue under the nipple area), which is considered the first sign of sexual maturation. This is…

Big bellies bulge when a person’s diet is particularly bad. Belly flab is an important external sign of metabolic inflammation. According to new research, even thin people with a little bit of belly flab are looking at problems down the road. A study published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that relatively…

Have you ever had the experience of meeting the doctor who is going to perform your surgery only to discover that this surgeon had all the charm and charisma of a villain out of a Stephen King novel? Guys, have you ever, during an initial consultation for, say, a vasectomy, noticed something strange about the…

If you’re lucky enough to live in a state where raw milk is available in stores and you don’t buy it, you are passing up a huge opportunity to improve your health immediately.

The advice to cut cholesterol almost always leads to eating more carbs, which increases triglyceride and often LDL levels, which leads to being placed on cholesterol pills, which can cause diabetes.

According to a leading researcher of Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials, Dr. Paul Aisen (photo), our drugs don’t work because doctor’s like me are not prescribing them early enough. But I think doctors should not promote extended use of drugs without proven benefit.

When I first saw those helicopter shots of red oil plumes staining the ocean, my only thought was: How could any animal survive in that? As a person who loves animals, this tragedy is too awful to think about. But as a doctor concerned with the prevention of human illness, I can’t help thinking about…

I don’t actually know anyone who sees drug reps anymore. The programming by we are influenced these days is much harder for our patients to see—even reporters seem not to know to write about it. It’s called “Pay for Performance,” or P4P.

If you are the kind of person who wants to see an independently minded physician who treats you as an individual rather than a disease state to be fitted into a predetermined algorithm, you might not like the direction medicine will be headed if people like Dr. Pearson have their way.

If you’re wondering if cancer can go away by itself, you may be very interested to learn that some cancers seem to do that MOST of the time.

If you have diabetes, fatigue may be a sign that your medication dosages may bee too high and you are at risk of dying from fatal arrhythmia. If your medications make you tired, schedule an urgent visit with your doctor and bring the reference I cite at the bottom of the article so they are up to date.

After relocating to New Hampshire I’m finally bidding farewell, officially, to beloved Kauai. It was a wonderful 10 years of living in paradise, enjoying beautiful scenery, weather, fresh local foods and of course the company of so many wonderful people that make up this very special island community. Thanks to Malama Kauai, Unity Church, Borders…

A new study suggests Dr. Atkins was right: A high carb diet is not a healthy diet, and cutting carbs trims more than just your waistline. While both low-carb and low-fat diets can help you loose weight, Duke University’s well-designed study makes it pretty clear that if you want to reduce your weight and your pressure, a…

Imagine a world where everyone is on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs. Not just sick people. Everyone. Astra Zeneca has imagined it, and now they’re going to see their dream come true. On December 16, the FDA announced their approval of Astra Zeneca’s cholesterol-lowering drug Crestor for use in people without high cholesterol despite the fact that…

I am not a vaccine skeptic. I think that most of our vaccines are safe enough for widespread utilization as long as they don’t do anything stupid during the production process, like contaminate them with squalene or mercury which they often do.

The USPSTF has recognized that by treating tiny, early stage breast cancers so aggressively, doctors may also have unknowingly subjected hundreds of thousands of American women to unnecessary procedures, leading to needless complications including disfigurement and even death, all the while assuming they were saving people’s lives.

Tiger Woods recently had a single car accident–a nasty one. Reports say he was out for as long as six minutes when his wife found him. When a doctor hears that a patient has suffered a brain injury severe enough to alter consciousness, they get concerned. Loosing consciousness altogether suggests a significant insult to the…

One of the most important overlooked factors in running is that of connective tissue strength.

The two big questions I’ve been getting about the flu this year are, Should I get the H1N1 vaccine? and Is the H1N1 flu as scary as people seem to be saying? Let’s start with the second question first. Is the N1H1 flu especially dangerous? The N1H1 swine flu virus is, like any other flu…

You may have heard Oprah’s Dr. Oz talking about an amazing new diet that, he claims, might allow us to live 150 years. I noticed that Dr. Oz seemed to be doing his best to highlight the benefits of this diet and downplay any risks, though he wasn’t following the diet himself – and I…

We all know our skin makes vitamin D during sun exposure, so you’d think that most of us here in Hawaii would have plenty of vitamin D, right? Wrong. A study done on prototypical surfer-dudes in Honolulu, titled: Low Vitamin D Status Despite Abundant Sun Exposure (Binkely, 2007) found that, amazingly, more than half (51…

Discussion and book signing of Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Coffee: Friend or Foe? Coffee is one of the most popular breakfast items on the most popular diet (a Paleo Diet) menu. Indeed, I’ve read reports claiming that coffee has antioxidants that may prevent heart disease and other compounds that may help to prevent certain cancers. At the other end of the argument, many natural…

“Vitamin D’s star is on the rise and researchers say it’s about time.” –AMA News, April 27, 2009 The government’s recommended intake (RDA) for D may underestimate the true amount we need by a factor of ten, according to Michael Holick MD, Ph.D., at Boston University Medical center. Current recommendations are for 200-400 I.U. per…

Thermograms detect infrared rays to show patterns of body temperature. What most people I know who have gotten a thermogram don’t seem to have been told is that thermograms only detect surface bloodflow, so any cancer growth deeper than a few millimeters may not be detected unless it also happens to be large enough to…

When it comes to breast cancer, not all “cancer” is really cancer, study says. According to the ACS, something like one in seven women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetimes. That’s scary, not only for women but for the family and friends who love them. But a recent study from the well-respected…

Supplement hucksters are never going to stop. But my longest-lived patients are not thriving on supplements; they’re thriving on real food.

If you have been diagnosed with heart failure, statin drugs, which most cardiologists will prescribe to you if your cholesterol levels are not where they recommend, may need to be stopped.

Birth order and spacing may affect our looks more than we realize. Quite often, the most photogenic member of the family is the oldest, as seen in the celebrity sibling pairs shown here. While not a universal rule, this principle bears investigation.

Table of ContentsMeat on the BoneOrgan MeatsFermented and Sprouted: Truly Live!Fresh: The Benefits of Raw FoodThere are many more benefits of Four Pillar Foods! French Paradox, Mediterranean Diet, Okinawa Diet…Oh my! How do you chose? You don’t have to choose, you can enjoy them all. All authentic cuisines the world over include foods that belong…

Have you lost your job and your insurance? Or is your employer cutting back on your benefits? Protecting your health naturally is better than health insurance. Learn how!

Many people believe diabetes (type 2) is incurable if they have a family history. Learn how diet can cause diabetes or cure your diabetes.

We used to think a single cell of cancer was a death sentence. New research shows how a healthy immune system can eradicate cancer cells.

If you read Good Calories, Bad Calories, you know carb make you gain weight beyond the calories. Learn about another food with the same effect.

Drugs like Boniva, Fosomax, and Actonel increase bone density by keeping old, calcified bone around longer than normal and this is likely the reason these drugs are increasingly found to cause bone disease including fractures.

The healthiest diets all share four common food categories. And we call these categories the Four Pillars of World Cuisine. In the past, they were part of every successful human culture. This website explores the many benefits of those culinary traditions, and will help you learn to cook the same dishes and enjoy the same, delicious meals that the healthiest people on Earth all do.

Your doctor may be too busy to read the articles. It’s always a good idea to research the drugs you take from a trusted website!

90 percent of insurance plans pay doctors to prescribe drugs to manage your health according to guidelines. Is that a good idea?

An important study was stopped early, for reasons they don’t explain. What has me worried is that the study appears to have stopped just as the death rates rose

I went for a job interview and was told that if I failed to get my patients LDL levels down to 100 (with drugs) “someone will sit down and talk with you.”

If you were told your “bad” cholesterol is high, before you change your diet, it’s useful to know that in reality cholesterol particles are neither “good” nor “bad.”

Opt for grass-fed beef for its triple advantage – it provides an exceptional taste experience, nurtures your health with nutrient-rich content, and promotes the well-being of the animals by aligning with their natural diets. Let’s cherish every bite, knowing we’re making ethical, healthier choices.

Supplement companies want you to belive the antioxidants, flavinoids, and other compounds they provide can only come from their pills. Nonsense.

Look for vegetable oils on every label. They promote inflammation starting in the gut and extending into the arteries, nervous system, and everywhere else.

How you cook your steak makes the difference between having a healthy meal and you-may-as-well-be-eating-pink-slime.

Which is better for you, beef or chicken?
The answer depends on what the animals eat and how healthy they are

Cholesterol pills can disrupt the function of every cell in your body in different ways, as described in this post, impairing brain, kidney, and heart hearth.

Buying (and marinating) dry aged steak is the ultimate secret weapon to creating unforgettable steak dinners!

If your switch from fries to salads hasn’t helped you, it’s because you are pouring deadly trans fat onto those crispy, vitamin-rich greens.

You know cholesterol pills will lower your cholesterol. But do you know cholesterol pills don’t prevent heart attacks by lowering cholesterol? They work by what the pharmaceutical companies call “a pleitropic effect” meaning they have so many effects we can’t understand or predict them all. Isoprene: A Building Block for Cellular Health Cholesterol pills called…

Here’s the story about what led me to first to question and then to condemn the theory that cholesterol causes heart disease.

For years I’ve avoided putting my patients on fosamax and related drugs for “bone health,” because according to the package insert, these drugs don’t make bones healthy. They prevent part of the natural cycle of bone growth, called bone resorption, and by doing so make them denser looking on bone scans. Dense bones might sound…