July 26, 2025

The Real Food Revival - Why Seed Oils Are the New Smoking

The Real Food Revival - Why Seed Oils Are the New Smoking
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Welcome back to Chasing Eden, the podcast where we reconnect

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to what's real, what's natural, and what truly heals. I'm

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your host, Carolyn Thompson, and today we're tapping into the

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most viral and most vital wellness movements of our time,

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the real food revival and the growing backlash against industrial

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seed oils. You've probably heard the phrase eat like your

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great grandparents, or maybe this one seed oils are the

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new smoking, But this movement goes way beyond trendy buzzwords.

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This is about reversing metabolic disease, clearing inflammation, healing our

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guts and brains, and waking up to the reality that

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our modern food supply has become our greatest threat. Today day,

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we'll dive into why seed oils are so damaging and

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how they took over your pantry, how ancestral and carnivore

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diets are changing lives, what real food really means, and

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the science and philosophies behind it, with insights from Gary Brecca,

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Dave Aspury, doctor Josh Axe, doctor Berg, doctor Brian Artists,

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and doctor Barbara O'Neil. So let's get back to the

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garden and take back our health. We're living through a

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food awakening. People are waking up to the fact that

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low fat, high carb seed oil laden processed foods have

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failed us. Chronic illness is rampant, obesity is normalized, and

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people are asking now the right question, what did the

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humans ate before we got sick? Gary Breca, human biologist

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and longevity expert, says, quote, the most toxic thing you

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can do is the man made food. When you consume foods,

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your body doesn't recognize, your genes don't know what to

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do with it. That creates dysfunction at the cellular level. Unquote.

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This is why the real food movement is going viral.

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We're not talking about trends. We're talking about a return

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to logic, biology and ancestral truth. So let's talk about

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the enemy hiding in plain sight seed oils. We're talking

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about canola oil, also known as rape seed oil, soybean oil,

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corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, cotton seed oil, and

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grape seed oil. They were never meant for human consumption.

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Their industrial byproducts chemically extracted with hexane and bleached and

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then loaded with unstable omega six polyunsaturated fats p UFA's

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for short. That oxidize in your body. Doctor Eric Berg

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explains it like this quote. These oils create oxidative stress

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and inflammation, which leads to insulin resistance, weight gain, brain fog,

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and heart disease. Unquote. Here's what Dave Asprey calls them,

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quote the biggest scam and nutrition worse than sugar, worse

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than carbs. They're in everything, and they're wrecking your mitochondria. Unquote.

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Seed oils are cheap, shelf stable, and profitable, and that's

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why they're everywhere, from salad dressings to your protein bars.

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But they destroy your cell membranes, your hormones, your brain function,

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and your body's ability to burn fat efficiently. In response,

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many people are turning to ancestral or even carnivore diets,

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stripping away processed foods and returning to the foods we

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evolved eating pasta, raised meat, organs, eggs, raw dairy, seasonal vet, vegetables,

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bone broth, fermented foods, wildfish, and animal fats like tallow

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and lard. Doctor Josh Ax says this quote. Ancestral eating

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focuses on nutrient dense, anti inflammatory, whole foods, the way

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our ancestors ate before food became chemistry unquote. Doctor Brian

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Artists often refers to how many modern conditions like autoimmunity

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and thyroid dysfunction can be improved simply by removing toxins

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like seed oils and returning to a high fat, mineral

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rich diet. Doctor Barbara O'Neil, a nature path and grandmother

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of natural health, says, quote, the food you eat becomes

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your blood, your cells, your tissues. If you want to heal,

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begin with what you put on your plate. Quote. For decades,

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saturated fat was demonized, but now people are learning that

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grass fed butter, tallow, lard, and liver are actually superfoods.

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Gary Brecath emphasizes this quote, Every cell in your body

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has a lipid membrane, and it's made of saturated fat.

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Your body needs healthy animal fats to function period unquote. Liver,

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for example, contains more bioavailable vitamin A than carrots, iron

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in a form your body can absorb co Q ten

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B twelve, coaling and copper. Doctor Axe and doctor Berg

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have both recommended eating liver once or twice a week,

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especially for women with with fatigue, hormonal imbalance, or iron deficiency.

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These were called sacred foods in many traditional cultures and

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we've all but forgotten them. So how do you start?

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Start by cutting seed oils, Toss the canola, corn and soy.

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Check labels they're in everything. Cook with tallow ghee, avocado oil,

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coconut oil, or butter. To rebuild your health, eat whole

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foods with ingredients that you recognize. Make bone broth a

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staple of your diet. Eat animal protein from clean sources

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and fermented foods like sauer Kraut or Kiefer supplement with magnesium,

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trace minerals and electrolytes. Doctor Artists has warned that seed

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oils and the glyphosate heavy processed foods they come in

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are one of the fastest ways to wreck your gut,

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lining and endocrine system. Detok starts with real food. Let's

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end with a question, what did your great grandmother eat?

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She didn't count macros, she didn't read labels, she didn't

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eat food invented in a lab. She ate butter, eggs,

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meat broth, home grown vegetables, sour dough, and herbs. And

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that's the foundation we need to return to. This isn't

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about going backward, It's about going deeper, returning to food

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that fuels life. Not disease. Dave Aspy said it best quote,

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the farther we get from nature, the sicker we become, unquote.

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And here on Chasing Eden, we're choosing to come home

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to nature, one meal at a time. Thanks for joining

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me for this eye opening episode of Chasing Eden. If

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this message resonated with you, please share it with someone

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you care about. Let's spark a food revelation, not with fear,

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but with truth, tradition, and a whole lot of butter.

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Follow us at Chasing Eden podcast on Instagram and subscribe

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stay nourished, stay rooted, and keep Chasing Eden,