Chasing Body Ideals: The Role of Skeletal Proportion
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.
How Eliminating Vegetable Oil (AKA the Hateful 8 Seed Oil) Helps Weight Loss
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.
Menopause, weight gain, and metabolic health.
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!
This ‘Handy’ Cough Medication Might Save You $400 to $28,000
More people get asthma as adults than ‘grow out’ of asthma they had as kids. Many people who had asthma as a kid assume they grew out of it. But you know those bouts of bronchitis you get every year or so, the ones the urgent care doctor gives you antibiotics for and the antibiotics don’t always work very well? You get those because you don’t really grow out of asthma—not entirely. And that means when you get a cold or a sinus infection, or when your allergies get really bad, it can stir up enough inflammation that it triggers…
Do Collagen Supplements Work?
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.
Why is Junk Food Bad for Your Health? It’s the FAT (mostly) but NOT the Saturated Fat
Processed food can make us fat, but it may have effects that are more profound, including the disruption of facial geometry.
Cholesterol: What the American Heart Association is Hiding from You (Part 3)
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.
Cholesterol: What the American Heart Association is Hiding from You (Part 2)
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.
Deep Nutrition
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.
Dr. Cate on Real Time with Bill Maher
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 so hard by COVID they needed ICU care (and does not have a known immune deficiency disease or chronic infection), let me know. [Link to full 60 minute audio on stitcher] It’s been over a week now, and…. So far,…
The Fats Making Us Sugar Addicts
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. Cate Shanahan’s book: The FatBurn Fix
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.
List of Good Fats and Oils versus Bad
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.
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.
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…
Cholesterol Is Good, The American Heart Association is Bad
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.
Study: PUFA-Rich Soy Oil Promotes Obesity and Fatty Liver
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.
