Dec 20, 20185 min read

Tucker Goodrich on Vegetable Oils Being at the Heart of Modern Disease

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*Listener Joe Kalb did a fantastic write-up including detailed show notes with timestamps, links, and extra info https://joehealthblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/vegetable-oils-are-bad-tucker-goodrich_49.html

Tucker Goodrich is a Wall Street tech extraordinaire and nutrition science enthusiast. After doctors and the healthcare system let him down in severe and avoidable ways, he took his health into his own hands and had amazing results. He’s done a ton of research on Omega 6 fatty acids otherwise known as seed oils otherwise known as vegetable oils previously known as an industrial waste product before we started feeding them to humans. He makes a compelling case for them being a major factor in many, if not all, modern diseases. You’ll definitely not want to be eating fast food fries cooked in old, rancid vegetable oils after this episode.

The sunburn stuff at the end is legit. I won’t spoil it, but just know Robb Wolf just backed this up on his podcast with science. There is a mechanism there that makes total sense and I’ve seen it anecdotally as well.

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Show Notes

Works on Wall Street and developed software that deals with trillions of dollars of assets
Had a stroke-like event at age 38
Then got acute diverticulitis
Got a colon resection and followed “healthy” diet and doctor’s advice and was still sick
He called himself “Mr. Whole Wheat” - stopped eating sugar when he was 19 so that wasn’t it
16 years of IBS… finally found Stephan Guyenet’s blog http://stephanguyenet.com
Started fixing himself in 2 days using dietary change
His surgery was probably unnecessary
He is well connected to Daniel Lieberman and The Story of the Human Body
Diseases of civilization
Agriculture allowed us to build cities, paved the way for written language to keep track of grains, etc.
We over-hunted all the very large animals
From eating grains we got shorter, got cavities, lesions on bones, all while our population exploded
We used to be more robust and have bigger brains
Diabetes used to be super rare - we have medical records of this
Cancer a huge problem in Germany
Heart disease in England
Diseases went around the world as eating patterns went around the world
We even give other species diabetes and our diseases when we feed them our foods - monkeys, dogs, cats - even racoons who eat human garbage
Weston A. Price needs to be mentioned for his great work
Realization came at the salad bar with the dressings
Cut all vegetable oils and cured himself
Cut out carbs and processed foods and exercised less and lost tons of weight
Started doing more research - lots of people said seed oils are bad, but nobody really explained the mechanism back then
Maybe the largest epidemiological study ever on saturated fat in India looking at the northern and southern populations
The south who ate like our food pyramid suggests had 7-15 times the heart disease rate
How about England? Heart disease skyrocketed with the intro of seed oils
Okinawa is a Blue Zone - place where people live abnormally long
First fast food restaurant opened in Okinawa
Okinawa went from the longest lifespan in Japan to the shortest
Seed oil consumption tracks modern disease all over the world
These cultures were eating a high carb diet so it's likely not the carbs - the carb consumption actually went down
Japanese and chinese are some of the shortest populations and they subsist on high carb, low meat diet. We know we got shorter when agriculture was invented. We know when we lower carb intake and up meat intake populations get taller
Grains are a “fallback food”
It’s funny that rich people in Santa Monica purposely try to live in the Failed Environment Metabolic State while thinking they’re morally superior to us
Tarahumara Indians eat this way - their children have a malnutrition rate of 80%
Carbohydrate is a cofactor. 5 key studies: rats and diabetes & heart failure; (Ghosh 2004); LA and obesity (Alvheim 2012) Lyon Diet Heart (De Lorgeril 1994); Seed oils and insulin resistance in India (Nigam 2014); Seed oils and NAFLD, (Maciejewska 2015)
Lyon heart study - lowered Omega 6 and raised Omega 3 to improve heart attack risk of repeat by 70%
William Lands: “I’ve studied saturated fat for 50 years and never found a mechanism that it could kill somebody”
American Heart Association’s “Prudent Diet” proved to be outright harmful to people in this study
History of LDL cholesterol and heart disease
To make LDL atherogenic omega 6 fats need to be oxidized
Researchers found this mechanism before De Lorgeril had success with replacing Omega 6s with olive oil, where he improved heart attack outcomes without knowing the mechanism
Researchers prime rats to get cancer and can’t do this unless they use omega 6s
Western Cancers and the P53 gene mutation
Japanese women moving to America breast cancer went up 7 fold
Why is there DNA damage present in all western diseases?
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of all western diseases
Avoiding heated seed oils is not good enough - damage still happens inside cells
damaged cardiolipin cause mitochondria to stop working properly and is primarily caused by excess carbohydrates in the diet
A lot of disease is teed up by excess carbs but the seed oils are what activate the damage
Asian countries and rice consumption
Knockout gene and detoxifying seed oils
Selenium deficiency in China and glutathione
Omega 6 fats combined with glucose causes oxidation and can be seen in a petri dish
Women in CHina were getting lung cancer that didn’t smoke - turned out it was cooking with seed oils and inhaling the fumes
Seed oils break down into one of the same toxins as in cigarette smoke
Seed oils used to be an industrial waste product
There’s no conspiracy theory - they thought these oils were fine. They aren't acutely toxic, it takes years to do damage
Everything has a U-shaped curve - too little or too much is bad
There’s essential fats in dairy and maybe more we don’t know about
How do vegans temporarily survive?
Kitavans
Sunburn and diet - how could they possibly be related?
His wife with dark skin and his light skin
What’s the mechanism?
His radiation research
Evolutionary context for omega 6 causing sunburn (or lack of omega 6 making us able to not get sunburned)
Now are omega 3 to omega 6 ratio is a nightmare
Giving omega 3 and a better diet to prisoners helped with their behavior
Weston Prices studied diet and its effects on troubled youth as well
Not everyone needs to cut out wheat, but just know it’s effects. Everyone should cut out sugar, refined grains, and seed oils though
Gabor Erdosi lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rcfvRGZsDs
The amount of physical grinding of starch affects your digestion and health in a negative way
Gabor is actually the next podcast guest
Japanese people eat high starch but it’s in its whole form, not ground
People are confused on what healthy even is, so it’s hard to be healthy
Going to restaurants is not even worth it anymore when you can make things better at home
Tucker’s blog http://yelling-stop.blogspot.com/
Tucker on Twitter https://twitter.com/TuckerGoodrich