Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Catherine Shanahan, M.D.

Jan 2017 · Sold by Flatiron Books

About this ebook

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

Ratings and reviews

Simple logic meets the complexity of navigating today's American diet dilemma. Thanks to Dr Cate I've lost 20 lbs but more importantly feel as healthy as I can remember. I recommend this book and the Fatburn Fix to anyone looking for help in the health and wellness arena.

it's not perfect book, but it gives you very straight idea what heathy food is and why without any dieting stuff. IMHO it could be written in 20 pages if you come for only pure advice, tho the full background was fun to read.

Excellent information, let down by terrible markup and long rambling exposition. No hyperlinks, and the index has no page numbers, so finding anything is a nightmare. Still trying to find the recipes!

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.