Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

by Catherine Shanahan M.D.
Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

by Catherine Shanahan M.D.

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Overview

One of the Best Health and Wellness Books of 2017 — Sports Illustrated

Deep Nutrition cuts through today’s culture of conflicting nutritional ideologies, showing how the habits of our ancestors can help us lead longer, healthier, more vital lives.


Physician and biochemist Catherine Shanahan, M.D. examined diets around the world known to help people live longer, healthier lives—diets like the Mediterranean, Okinawa, and “Blue Zone”—and identified the four common nutritional habits, developed over millennia, that unfailingly produce strong, healthy, intelligent children, and active, vital elders, generation after generation. These four nutritional strategies—fresh food, fermented and sprouted foods, meat cooked on the bone, and organ meats—form the basis of what Dr. Cate calls “The Human Diet.”

Rooted in her experience as an elite athlete who used traditional foods to cure her own debilitating injuries, and combining her research with the latest discoveries in the field of epigenetics, 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.

Deep Nutrition offers a prescriptive plan for how anyone can begin eating The Human Diet to:

*Improve mood
*Eliminate cravings and the need to snack
*Boost fertility and have healthier children
*Sharpen cognition and memory
*Eliminate allergies and disease
*Build stronger bones and joints
*Get younger, smoother skin


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781250113849
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publication date: 05/29/2018
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 512
Sales rank: 49,742
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Catherine Shanahan, M.D. is a board certified family physician. She trained in biochemistry and genetics at Cornell University before attending Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She practiced medicine in Hawaii for a decade, where she studied ethnobotany, as well as the culinary habits of her healthiest patients. She currently runs a metabolic health clinic in Denver, Colorado and serves as the Director of the Los Angeles Lakers PRO Nutrition Program.

Table of Contents

Author's Note
Introduction

PART I: THE WISDOM OF TRADITION
1. Reclaiming Your Health: The Origins of Deep Nutrition
2. The Intelligence Gene: Epigenetics and the Language of DNA
3. The Greatest Gift: The Creation and Preservation of Genetic Wealth
4. Dynamic Symmetry: The Beauty-Health Connection
5. The Sibling Strategy: Letting Your Body Create a Perfect Baby

PART II: THE DANGERS OF THE MODERN DIET
6. The Great Nutrition Migration: From the Culinary Garden of Eden to Outer Space
7. Good Fats and Bad: How the Cholesterol Theory Created a Sickness Epidemic
8. Brain Killer: Why Vegetable Oil is Your Brain's Worst Enemy
9. Sickly Sweet: How a Carbohydrate-Rich Diet Blocks Metabolic Function

PART III: LIVING THE DEEP NUTRITION WAY
10. The Four Pillars of the Human Diet: Foods that Program Your Body for Health, Brains, and Beauty
11. Beyond Calories: Using Food as a Language to Achieve the Ideal Body Weight
12. Forever Young: Callagen Health and Life Span
13. Deep Nutrition: How to Get Started Eating the Human Diet
14. Frequently Asked Questions

Epilogue: Health Without Healthcare
Resources: Carb-Counting Tool, Protein-Counting Tool, Helpful Websites, Recommended Brands, Doctors in Your Area
Suggested Reading

Notes
Index

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