Olive oil: a true ‘essential oil’

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

If you’ve ever been stopped dead in your tracks during exercise by a muscle cramp, you know you’ll try almost anything to make it stop. There have been countless theories and remedies put forward to explain and treat a dreaded muscle cramp, but science still has a bit of catching ...  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