Summary of Catherine Shanahan with Luke Shanahan's Deep Nutrition

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Get the Summary of Catherine Shanahan with Luke Shanahan's Deep Nutrition in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A self-published phenomenon examining the habits that kept our ancestors disease-free - now with a prescriptive plan for the Human Diet to help us all live long, vital, healthy lives.

Physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan, MD, 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638152712

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Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

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Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food (2008) by Catherine Shanahan, a physician and nutrition expert, explores how ancient nutritional wisdom can be applied to today’s lifestyle for maximum health and wellness benefits. Shanahan studied global cuisines and discovered basic commonalities, which she calls the Four Pillars of World Cuisine. In their own ways, these nutritional strategies support optimal gene functioning, which leads to heightened health.

Though average lifespan has steadily increased, human health has not improved along a similar trajectory. Despite advances in science and technology, rates of cancer and heart disease are on the rise. Obesity and diabetes are reaching epidemic levels. The culprit is poor nutrition. The modern American diet relies on processed, sugary