Seed Oils, Chrons, Downside of Coffee | THRR156

Please Subscribe and Review: Apple Podcasts | RSS Submit your questions for the podcast here News Topic: Comparison of the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet and a higher-fat DASH diet on blood pressure and lipids and lipoproteins: a randomized controlled trial Show Notes:   Questions:  Downside of coffee Steve writes: What do you think about coffee? I hear a lot of talk on coffee. Mainly about sleep cycles and blocking adenosine. And then the usual worship of loving coffee. I have a stressful job and I find that giving up coffee does wonders for anger management, stress, burnout, and all around negative feelings. I do occasionally use it when I have a morning of zero motivation as I think it increases cortisol. I usually stick to gunpowder green tea, it doesn't take me to dark places. I wonder how many people have kept drinking 5 cups a day and then got on Lexapro or something like that without taking stock of the situation. Should there be more talk around the negative aspects of coffee on mental health?   Chron’s Hi Robb & Nicki, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the work you have done over the years.  I’ll jump to the punchline that last year (at the age of 54) I was diagnosed with Chron’s.  The Chron’s is under control with biologics infusion and I’m just trying to get back to health and fitness and I was wondering if you had nutrition recommendations in living with Chron’s.  Are there resources you recommend? I live in Vancouver Canada, 55 years old (6ft, 215lbs) have been reasonably athletic in my life, playing football, hockey, lacrosse, boxing into my mid 20’s and then got into running, then with young kids took a break from fitness and then got into road cycling, started playing lacrosse again and finally got into powerlifting 10 years ago.  I’ve been doing keto off and on since 2016 and bone broth fasting.  I’ve never been sick then the wheels fell off last year when I got sick and was diagnosed with Chron’s.  The Chron’s is under control with medication and I’ve resumed powerlifting and road cycling (I have a 100 mile bike race in July).  Apologies for the long message and thanks again for the years of great information you provide.  With kindest regards, Fred   Seed Oils Mae writes: Hi Robb and Nikki, I love your guys podcast-it’s always the highlight of my week to listen. You both have such a balanced view on health issues I wanted to ask about seed oils. I know they are not good for us in large amounts (or am I wrong about that?) but what about small amounts here and there? Like if we go out to eat a couple times a month or have a few tortilla chips here and there? Is that still super damaging to health? I see so many health influencers talking about how bad seed oils are and how we shouldn’t touch the things with a ten foot pole. Wondering your views on occasional seed oil ingestion?   Sponsor: The Healthy Rebellion Radio is sponsored by our electrolyte company, LMNT. Proper hydration is more than just drinking water. You need electrolytes too! Check out The Healthy Rebellion Radio sponsor LMNT for grab-and-go electrolyte packets to keep you at your peak! They give you all the electrolytes want, none of the stuff you don’t. Click here to get your LMNT electrolytes