Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

by Catherine Shanahan M.D.

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:	9781250113825
Publisher:	Flatiron Books
Publication date:	01/03/2017
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	464,029
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.70(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 enthnobotany, 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 vii

Introduction xix

Part 1 The Wisdom of Tradition

1 Reclaiming Your Health 3

The Origins of Deep Nutrition

2 The Intelligent Gene 21

Epigenetics and the Language of DNA

3 The Greatest Gift 37

The Creation and Preservation of Genetic Wealth

4 Dynamic Symmetry 53

The Beauty-Health Connection

5 Letting Your Body Create a Perfect Baby 73

The Sibling Strategy

Part 2 The Dangers of the Modern Diet

6 The Great Nutrition Migration 103

From the Culinary Garden of Eden to Outer Space

7 Good Fats and Bad 121

How the. Cholesterol Theory Created a Sickness Epidemic

8 Brain Killer 163

Why Vegetable Oil Is Your Brains Worst Enemy

9 Sickly Sweet 207

How a Carbohydrate-Rich Diet Blocks Metabolic Function

Part 3 Living the Deep Nutrition Way

10 The Four Pillars of the Human Diet 237

Foods That Program Your Body for Health, Brains, and Beauty

11 Beyond Calories 279

Using Food as a Language to Achieve the Ideal Body Weight

12 Forever Young 303

Collagen Health and Life Span

13 Deep Nutrition 327

How to Get Started Eating the Human Diet

14 Frequently Asked Questions 389

Epilogue: Health Without Healthcare 425

Acknowledgments 427

Resources

Carb-Counting Tool: Simply Counting Carbs 431

Protein-Counting Tool: Simply Counting Protein 433

Helpful Websites 435

Recommended Brands 436

Doctors in Your Area 437

Suggested Reading 439

Notes 441

Illustration Credits 475

Index 477

Editorial Reviews

"If you want to understand the big picture of how optimal health starts with food, start with Dr. Cate. Her bookDeep Nutrition leaves you with a deep appreciation of the profound relationship between our genes and the planet, inspiring us to be good shepherds of both.”
—Dallas Hartwig, author of The Whole 30

“I have based to my work on the idea that getting the right kinds of healthy fats into your body and avoiding the worst fats is essential to optimal health. I've interviewed dozens of the world's top experts about this, and I know of no one who speaks more eloquently on this topic than Dr Cate. If she’s talking fats, pull up a chair. Take notes."
—Dave Asprey, author of the Bulletproof Diet

“[Deep Nutrition is] a different philosophy, It's something that we all had to adjust to, but we trust Dr. Cate implicitly. I've seen great results from it from when I started doing it—it’s worked well for me.”
--Kobe Bryant, NBA player with the L.A. Lakers

"Dr. Cate has emerged as one of the most important voices in the Primal/Paleo movement. She gives you the big picture and the nitty gritty bedrock science of why this way of eating works."
—Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint

“Deep Nutrition explains in a very detailed and easy-to-understand way how our diets affect us on a cellular level. Dr. Cate Shanahan provides the best explanation I’ve found for how many modern foods are not simply causing us to gain weight, but are literally creating disease within our cells. She shows the connection between diet and gene health, and details how poor diet choices can literally affect future generations!”
—Wellness Mama

“Deep Nutrition really helped me with endurance. I started to feel better as a player. I was able to run more, I was able to be more active because of my diet change, and I just decided to keep going with it to this day.”
—Dwight Howard, NBA player with the Houston Rockets

"Dr. Cate Shanahan beautifully presents the scientific evidence why traditional foods enjoyed by our ancestors thousands of years ago can keep us lean and disease-free today. Deep Nutrition is an eye-opening, engaging book that is sure to change your life and the life of your family."
--Vani Hari, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Food Babe Way

"With a wealth of detail, Shanahan shows how changing what you eat can improve everything from bone strength to memory."
— Bookpage

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