Olive oil: a true ‘essential oil’

After water, tea is the most popular drink in the world. We turn to it for comfort, for a break in the day, and increasingly, for its claimed mood‑calming powers. Scroll through social media and you’ll find no shortage of claims that tea, or more so one of its bioactive compounds ...  Show more

One of the best guides to food variety is colour. And for colour, there’s a group of natural plant chemicals called anthocyanins that are getting a lot of attention for their potential benefits on the brain. Anthocyanins are the pigments that give red, purple, and blue plants the ...  Show more

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the absolute worst food for your heart! Here are some of the side effects:

•Primary driver of heart disease

•Creates inflammation inside the arteries

•Consumption directly correlates with heart disease

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In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the best and worst oil for deep frying.

Seed oils are polyunsaturated fatty acids. Vegetable oil is actually seed oil—it doesn’t come from vegetables.

Seed oils go through industrial processing ...

Many of us grew up believing that vegetable oils were good and butter was bad. We were told, even by government and medical associations, to use more vegetable, seed and bean oils (like soybean, corn, safflower, canola). Now we know this advice was completely wrong. In this mini- ...  Show more

In this mini-episode of the Ancient Health Podcast, Courtney delves into the history of seed oils and their impact on health. Exploring how seed oils have been demonized in recent times, the conversation provides insights into the evolution of our food supply in the industrialize ...  Show more