Vegetable Oils are Bad: Tucker Goodrich, Peak Human podcast takeaways (Part 2)

Part 1 of this post (overview)
Part 3 of this post (podcast listening companion, notes)

The Peak Human podcast with host Brian Sanders and guest Tucker Goodrich is my favorite health podcast episode of 2018.

This episode spurred a million thoughts, but here are my takeaways from this podcast:

• You are much more likely to heal chronic conditions by self-research than by relying on mainstream medicine
• You can overcome ridiculous conditions (stroke-like event at age 38, decades of IBS, and diverticulitis, in Tucker’s example) and make yourself healthy again via dietary change
• You will probably have to learn how on your own
• For non-acute harms, mainstream medicine generally doesn’t touch root cause
• Diseases of civilization are not genetic
• Weston A. Price’s work shows diseases becoming prevalent in a single generation
• Dramatic lifespan, healthspan decrease in a single generation in Okinawa upon adopting Western foods
• Diseases of civilization are not environmental
• People living in tropical (pristine) environments, eating Western foods, are unhealthy
• Diseases of civilization are not due to lack of exercise
• We expend about as much energy today as many hunter-gatherers
• We know of lots of healthy populations that have eaten high-carbohydrate diets
• Can even reverse NAFLD with high-carb diet
• It does not work in combination with vegetable (seed) oils
• We don’t know of any healthy populations with high seed oil consumption
• Low-carb probably ideal, especially if one already has less than ideal metabolic health
• Carbohydrates are bad for dental health
• With seed oils, carbohydrates are a co-factor and an accelerant for causing diseases of civilization
• Cutting carbs and vegetable oils is the quickest way to improve metabolic health
• Increased consumption of seed oils corresponds with marked increase in heart disease and other diseases of civilization
• Seed oils being healthy does not make sense from an evolutionary perspective
• Saturated fat being unhealthy does not make sense from an evolutionary perspective
• Eating healthy can be liberating
• It's a "cheat code"
• Now Tucker can athletically outperform people much younger than him
• Epidemiology can be useful, but only within context
• There are very plausible mechanisms for how seed oils are harmful
• There are interventional trials showing seed oils to be harmful
• There are lots of animal models showing seed oils to be harmful
• You can increase your sun tolerance remarkably by cutting seed oils from your diet