Oct 23, 2019
Hello there Sapien Tribe! That’s
right, we’re a tribe now. This is very fitting to me and we have a
lot of great people leading the way. I’m going to make pages for
each of them on http://Sapien.org
I’m talking about people like
Professor Bill Schindler who’s hosting an online video series with
a bunch of great people. Somehow I slipped in there and am kicking
it off with one of the OGs Robb Wolf on Monday, October 28th. Sign
up for free at https://www.modernstoneagediet.com/bs/
He’s having a bunch of these
other tribe leaders on like Tara Couture (my favorite person ever -
@slowdownfamstead on Instagram), Mark Sisson, Shawn Baker, all the
people. Professor Bill is a great guy, a friend, and I want to
support his project and message. That link is https://www.modernstoneagediet.com/bs/
or find it in the show
notes.
Now that I strategically brought
up show notes, I’ll mention the message I got from a Patreon
supporter who said “If I
realized you offered such extensive show notes to patreon
supporters I would of joined a hell of a lot sooner. What a
valuable perk!!! I think if you elaborate on the podcast about on
how comprehensive these google docs are (links to studies, links to
youtube videos, refined information, and links to articles) surely
more people will join for access!”
It’s all Kristi! She does an
awesome job. Support us at http://patreon.com/peakhuman
You can also get grass finished
meat delivered to your door at http://NoseToTail.org
And put a few branches on our
fire. This tribe metaphor is going to continue. You have to just
try this even if it’s just to get the ground beef with the organs
mixed in. There’s really no other way you can get grass finished
beef plus liver, heart, kidney, and spleen all ground into a
perfect little ball of nutrition for a better price, taste, or
convenience factor. Support Sapien and a family Texas ranch by
ordering at http://NoseToTail.org
The film is going great. We
don’t have a release date but you can still preorder it and get
some of the perks by clicking through http://FoodLies.org to the Indiegogo page.
And now onto the guest today,
Dr. Cate Shanahan. I read her book Deep Nutrition awhile back and
was hooked. She has a great philosophy that’s very inline with the
Sapien lifestyle. She’s a board certified family physician,
she trained in biochemistry and
genetics at Cornell University’s graduate school before attending
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She helped create the PRO
nutrition program for the LA Lakers which helped Kobe start eating
an ancestral diet and boost his performance as he went later into
his career. She’s got a new book coming out early next year called
Fatburn Fix which you can already preorder on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Fatburn-Fix-Great-Weight-Using/dp/1250114497
And she’s an amazing person all
around - here’s Dr. Cate.
SHOW NOTES
- Cate
Shanahan is a practicing medical doctor and author of Deep
Nutrition
- She
was inspired to write Deep Nutrition because we are currently
living longer lives but not healthier lives
- There
is a difference between life expectancy and life span
- Past
generations grew up without GMOs, pesticides, so basically eating
all organic, free-range, foods and no processed foods
- Genetic momentum will carry you forward even
when diet might fall apart and this is how a lot of people live
very long lives
- Your
connective tissue determines your lifespan and your connective
tissue is determined in your teens and twenties
- Cate
has genetically poor connective tissues and experienced various
repetitive injuries
- Status of connective tissue is the number one
predictor of injury and duration of athletic
career
- The
problem that can occur with vegan athletes is that they are
deprived of animal-based components that support connective
tissue
- Many
traditional diets include bones and products you get when you break
down/boil bones
- Gelatin can help our joints and
injuries
- Bone
broth is the youth serum for connective tissue and extending
athletic career
- Cate
worked with the LA Lakers and various other professional athletes
and has seen the power of nutrition and specifically bone broth in
athletic performance, recovery, and career
longevity
- How
LDL and HDL cholesterol levels matter
- Brian’s theory: the only people that don’t
benefit either didn’t try it or did it wrong
- Many
high-level athletes adopting low-carb diets
- Sugar
isn’t good, but vegetable oils are the worst thing we could
possibly eat
- Cate
believes that if we didn’t have vegetable oils we wouldn’t have all
these chronic diseases
- Mitochondria produce 30% more energy (ATP)
using fatty acids and ketones for fuel than
glucose
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids from vegetable oils
shut down mitochondrial metabolism and can trigger
apoptosis
- As
your cells demand more and more sugar, the brain responds by
keeping your fasting blood sugar up in an unhealthy range and this
is what is diagnosed as diabetes
- Vegetable oils play a role in
diabetes
- Short
fasts can be a part of a healthy lifestyle but a lot of people
aren’t even healthy enough to fast
- Eating between meals blocks fat
burning
- You
shouldn’t need a snack if you have body fat
- People underestimate how many calories they eat
a day, and these hidden calories come from snacking
- There’s a difference between burning fat and
burning body fat
- There
are toxins in the vegetable oils that have accumulated in body fat,
so when you fast and start burning body fat, you release them and
get a pro-inflammatory effect
- If
you have toxic body fat and you try and push through to fast, it
could be harmful
- The
reason some people can’t access their body fat goes beyond lowering
insulin
- Some
people aren’t even ready to go low-carb
- Carbs
are not the enemy, if you do it right, you can have your carbs and
lose weight and be healthy
- MCTs
can be used directly by the brain for fuel
- Your
body makes most of its antioxidants
- The
antioxidants in food probably have a negligible contribution in
your cells
- If
you do carnivore, you should be doing it nose-to-tail
- Cate’s 4 pillars for a maximally healthy
diet
- The
RDAs are almost irrelevant
- Ancestral diets were based on farming, culinary
practices, and traditions
- Our
intuitions were so good for so long and we’ve lost our
ways
- Diet
can impact how our children physically look and grow
- Feed
your genetics what they are expecting to receive
- You
have a gene in your bones for growing more bone matrix
- The
raw materials in our food can act as switches for our
genes
- Cate
tells people to supplement with vitamins (e.g. vitamin D), minerals
(e.g. calcium), and superfoods (e.g. probiotics) if your diet is
not rich in what you are supplementing with
- Vegans who believe “just don’t eat meat and
you’ll be fine” can turn into a really unhealthy
diet
- DHA
requirements go down when you remove vegetable
oils
- Epidemiology is just like “voting” on what a
healthy diet is and shouldn’t be what we make dietary
recommendations on
- When
we eat damaging dietary fats for the brain we see mental
illness
- Stress isn’t a new phenomenon, we are just not
wired to deal with it with the food we’re eating
- Humans are being built wrong and if we continue
down this path, humans will become extinct
Where to find Dr. Cate
Shanahan
https://drcate.com/
https://twitter.com/drcateshanahan
https://www.facebook.com/DoctorCate
SHOW NOTES
- Cate
Shanahan is a practicing medical doctor and author of Deep
Nutrition
- She
was inspired to write Deep Nutrition because we are currently
living longer lives but not healthier lives
- There
is a difference between life expectancy and life span
- Past
generations grew up without GMOs, pesticides, so basically eating
all organic, free-range, foods and no processed foods
- Genetic momentum will carry you forward even
when diet might fall apart and this is how a lot of people live
very long lives
- Your
connective tissue determines your lifespan and your connective
tissue is determined in your teens and twenties
- Cate
has genetically poor connective tissues and experienced various
repetitive injuries
- Status of connective tissue is the number one
predictor of injury and duration of athletic
career
- The
problem that can occur with vegan athletes is that they are
deprived of animal-based components that support connective
tissue
- Many
traditional diets include bones and products you get when you break
down/boil bones
- Gelatin can help our joints and
injuries
- Bone
broth is the youth serum for connective tissue and extending
athletic career
- Cate
worked with the LA Lakers and various other professional athletes
and has seen the power of nutrition and specifically bone broth in
athletic performance, recovery, and career
longevity
- How
LDL and HDL cholesterol levels matter
- Brian’s theory: the only people that don’t
benefit either didn’t try it or did it wrong
- Many
high-level athletes adopting low-carb diets
- Sugar
isn’t good, but vegetable oils are the worst thing we could
possibly eat
- Cate
believes that if we didn’t have vegetable oils we wouldn’t have all
these chronic diseases
- Mitochondria produce 30% more energy (ATP)
using fatty acids and ketones for fuel than
glucose
- Polyunsaturated fatty acids from vegetable oils
shut down mitochondrial metabolism and can trigger
apoptosis
- As
your cells demand more and more sugar, the brain responds by
keeping your fasting blood sugar up in an unhealthy range and this
is what is diagnosed as diabetes
- Vegetable oils play a role in
diabetes
- Short
fasts can be a part of a healthy lifestyle but a lot of people
aren’t even healthy enough to fast
- Eating between meals blocks fat
burning
- You
shouldn’t need a snack if you have body fat
- People underestimate how many calories they eat
a day, and these hidden calories come from snacking
- There’s a difference between burning fat and
burning body fat
- There
are toxins in the vegetable oils that have accumulated in body fat,
so when you fast and start burning body fat, you release them and
get a pro-inflammatory effect
- If
you have toxic body fat and you try and push through to fast, it
could be harmful
- The
reason some people can’t access their body fat goes beyond lowering
insulin
- Some
people aren’t even ready to go low-carb
- Carbs
are not the enemy, if you do it right, you can have your carbs and
lose weight and be healthy
- MCTs
can be used directly by the brain for fuel
- Your
body makes most of its antioxidants
- The
antioxidants in food probably have a negligible contribution in
your cells
- If
you do carnivore, you should be doing it nose-to-tail
- Cate’s 4 pillars for a maximally healthy
diet
- The
RDAs are almost irrelevant
- Ancestral diets were based on farming, culinary
practices, and traditions
- Our
intuitions were so good for so long and we’ve lost our
ways
- Diet
can impact how our children physically look and grow
- Feed
your genetics what they are expecting to receive
- You
have a gene in your bones for growing more bone matrix
- The
raw materials in our food can act as switches for our
genes
- Cate
tells people to supplement with vitamins (e.g. vitamin D), minerals
(e.g. calcium), and superfoods (e.g. probiotics) if your diet is
not rich in what you are supplementing with
- Vegans who believe “just don’t eat meat and
you’ll be fine” can turn into a really unhealthy
diet
- DHA
requirements go down when you remove vegetable
oils
- Epidemiology is just like “voting” on what a
healthy diet is and shouldn’t be what we make dietary
recommendations on
- When
we eat damaging dietary fats for the brain we see mental
illness
- Stress isn’t a new phenomenon, we are just not
wired to deal with it with the food we’re eating
- Humans are being built wrong and if we continue
down this path, humans will become extinct
Where to find Dr. Cate
Shanahan
https://drcate.com/
https://twitter.com/drcateshanahan
https://www.facebook.com/DoctorCate