The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 26. Seed Oils, The Dirty 8 That Are Destroying Your Health | Ultimate Human Short with Gary Brecka

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey guys, I'm Gary Brekka, and this week, let's talk about seed oils. Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, Gary Brekka, human biologist, and we go down the road of everything anti-aging, longevity, biohacking, and everything in between. Today's podcast short is going to be one of my favorites because it is one in a series of things that I think every human being should permanently remove from their life. Today's podcast is about seed oils. Lots of confusion on this topic, so I'm going to try to clear up some of the confusion, give you some of the research on seed oils and the detriments thereof so that you can make a decision on how to get these questionable oils, these industrial processed oils permanently out

Starting point is 00:00:54 of your life. And then I'm going to give you some suggestions on what you can put in your kitchen to change the health trajectory of how you are cooking and preparing your foods. There's no question that we have a chronic disease crisis in this country and that the reasons for this are multifactorial, but you've heard me speak before about things that I think every human should remove from our diets. These are things that are destroying our health,

Starting point is 00:01:18 our longevity, and our lifespan as well as our healthspan. By way of background, there are two basic types of fatty acids that we find in the human body based on how their carbon bonds are paired with hydrogen. We have saturated fats, which are usually solid at room temperature, and we have unsaturated fats, which are liquid at room temperature. Unsaturated fats are further divided into mono-unsaturated fats and poly-unsaturated fats, the PUFAs, depending on how many pairs of hydrogen atoms they're missing. Most of the tissues in our body

Starting point is 00:01:51 are made up of saturated and monounsaturated fats. This is why we have an increased intake need for saturated and monounsaturated fats. However, we need to significantly reduce the polyunsaturated fats because these are not as highly required in human beings. Human beings need relatively little of these PUFAs or polyunsaturated fatty acids. PUFAs are commonly known as the omega-3 and omega-6 fats, but now evidence is emerging that it's the high consumption of the omega-6 version of these PUFAs and

Starting point is 00:02:25 specifically the omega-6 fatty acid linoleic acid that may be the main contributor to the endemic of chronic disease and should dramatically be limited in our diets. These omega-6 fatty acids and specifically the linoleic acids are the ones that I'm going to target and talk about today. As we discuss the topic of seed oils, it's important to point out that all seed oils are high in PUFAs and low in saturated fats, while animal fats are high in saturated fats. So these omega-6 fatty acids are easily oxidized, meaning they can cause free radical damage to cell membranes, and even more importantly, can damage your mitochondria, which is the powerhouse

Starting point is 00:03:05 of our cells. These oxidized fats literally get trapped in your healthy cell membranes, and they cause inflammation, and they cause poor cellular function. The majority of vegetable and seed oils did not even exist prior to the late 1800s when machine lubricants were hydrogenated into synthetic seed oils like Crisco. Processed foods contain abnormally high percentages of these damaging seed oils, especially high concentrations of the omega-6 fatty acid linoleic acid. Human beings were not meant to consume this level of processed foods and certainly not this level of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Oxidized PUFAs damage our cell membranes, they cause damage and inflammation in the lining of our blood vessels, and even reduce the liver's production of glutathione.

Starting point is 00:03:55 Now, as you may or may not know, glutathione is the major antioxidant in the human body. It's called the mother of all antioxidants. In fact, every single cell in the human body contains glutathione. So anything that will reduce the liver's production of this vital antioxidant will reduce the ability for human beings to eliminate waste, repair, detoxify, and regenerate at a cellular level.

Starting point is 00:04:20 Seed oil oxidation has also been linked to poor immune system function and even increased insulin resistance. I will put those links to the studies below. Remember that cardiovascular disease is the leading killer in the Western world. And although it may, in many cases, we blame increased cardiovascular disease on cholesterol, the science does not support a straight linear connection between increased cholesterol alone and the incidence of cardiovascular disease. While LDL cholesterol may be at the scene of some of these crimes, it is not pulling the trigger.

Starting point is 00:04:52 Seed oils cause this LDL cholesterol to oxidize, which causes the formation of something called a foam cell. So the LDL cholesterol is not itself the danger, it's the oxidized LDL cholesterol, which may be directly linked to linoleic acid and polyunsaturated fatty acids found in sea oils. Most Americans should be getting about 2% of their daily intake of calories from seed oils, and yet the average is close to 25%. A recent clinical study that was published

Starting point is 00:05:23 in the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology linked seed oil consumption in the diet to increased ultraviolet radiation damage and hence an increased risk of skin cancer. A story published in the Oncology Advisor also summarized the links between high polyunsaturated fatty acid intake or high intake of seed oils and the increased link to skin cancers. So seed oils often contain harmful additives. They're processed with hexane chemicals. They're heated to industrial high temperatures, which turns them rancid. They sometimes are even degummed or deodorized with sodium hydroxide, a known carcinogen. Hexane, which is a known neurotoxin, heated to make them

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Starting point is 00:10:08 So I don't just want to sit on this podcast and fear monger. I want to give you some ideas of what could you put into your kitchen to do cooking without seed oils? What kind of oils could you use at room temperature? And how can you navigate the maze of getting these highly processed seed oils out of your diet? Well, first of all, you can try to dramatically limit the maze of getting these highly processed seed oils out of your diet. Well, first of all, you can try to dramatically limit the amount of processed foods that you eat. Processed food contains abnormally high amounts of seed oils. Also try to avoid dressings that contain these seed oils. Commit that dirty eight to memory, spin the bottle around, look at the back of your labels, and if it contains one of

Starting point is 00:10:45 those or any of those eight seed oils that I mentioned above, just put it right back on the shelf. There are lots of really good organic brands that are emerging now. I will try to find some of these brands and put them on the Ultimate Human website, and they do not contain these industrial processed seed oils. Here's what you need in your kitchen. A grass-fed butter, a ghee butter, or grass-fed tallow, or coconut oil for cooking. I am not saying that these are by any means only things that you can use for cooking, but these four do not denature at high temperatures. They have excellent ratios of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids. They contain very, very limited amounts of

Starting point is 00:11:26 linoleic acid, and at high temperatures, they're not going to oxidize or become putrid. At room temperature, I suggest that you use an extra virgin olive oil, but a word of caution, spin your extra virgin olive oils around. I prefer that you get a brand that's actually from Italy that's cold pressed, but spin your olive oils around, look at the back of the label, and make sure that it is not actually infused or diluted with some of these seed oils. There's a large percentage of seed oils that is allowed to be put into these olive oils. And even the extra virgin olive oils that are not extra virgin olive oil, they are fillers and they are seed oils, but they are usually listed on the back of the label. I eat a lot of nuts.

Starting point is 00:12:09 The nuts that are the lowest in linoleic acid are macadamias, cashews, and pistachios, also hazelnuts. They happen to be my favorites. So if you are also a nut eater, try to stick to those four nuts. Also, the difference between wild caught and farm raised fish is night and day. So if you're a fish eater, go for the wild caught fish. If you do eat meats, make sure that you have grass fed, grass finished meats. Check the back of your dressing labels. Start looking at the labels for these highly processed seed oils and do your best to get these out of your life for you and

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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 26. Seed Oils, The Dirty 8 That Are Destroying Your Health | Ultimate Human Short with Gary Brecka

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