Dr. Cate Shanahan
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Dr. Cate Shanahan

Family physician · author

A family physician who reads nutrition through biochemistry — and who gave the problem a name. She coined the “Hateful Eight,” the shorthand for the industrial seed oils worth cutting first.

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A board-certified family physician who trained in biochemistry and genetics before medicine, and has advised professional athletes on how they eat.

Her books argue that the healthiest human diets are the traditional ones our ancestors refined over generations — and that the modern collapse in metabolic health tracks with what replaced them.

In Dark Calories she makes the case that industrial vegetable oils are a primary, and avoidable, driver of the oxidative stress behind chronic disease — and hands readers a concrete way to get them out of the kitchen.

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