Catherine Shanahan MD - Deep Nutrition

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Deep Nutrition
Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Copyright 2009 by Catherine Shanahan, MD, Luke Shanahan, MFA

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Cover and Book Design: Catherine & Luke Shanahan
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Amarna Tablet clay replica by Luke Shanahan
Interior cartoons by Catherine Shanahan

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shanahan, Catherine MD

Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Catherine Shanahan, MD; Luke Shanahan, MFA

Includes bibliographical references and index

Library of Congress Control Number: 200890981

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ISBN-10: 0-615-22838-0
ISBN-13 13:978-0-615-22838-9
E-Book ISBN: 978-1-61397-266-3

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To Buddy
Of all the souls we have met, he was the most human.

Special Thanks

To dozens of physicians at UCLA and UCSF for interviews and opinions. To Dr. Stephen Marquardt for insights into his groundbreaking research. To Jo Robinson for her story of the discovery of omega-3 fatty acids. To the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation for making the extensive works of Weston A. Price and Dr. Francis Pottenger publicly available. To Yvette Bambas for questions from healthcare consumers. To George Brown for design. To my brother Dan Shanahan for cartoons. To Sandra Yue for countless hours of editing. To Jeff Tucker and Rob Kvidt of Techspokes.com for social media marketing. To Carol Pimental, Leona Soares, Lizelle Hernandez, and the staff of West Kauai Clinic Kalaheo for being so caring to my patients through the years. And to all the scientists and researchers who still believe in the scientific method.

Table Of Contents

This book describes the diet to end all diets.

Thats easy to say, of course. All kinds of nutrition books claim to describe the one and only, best-of-all dietthe last one youll ever need. The truth is, there really are a lot of good diets out there. Youre already familiar with some of them: the Okinawan, the Mediterranean, and the Frenchwho paradoxically live long, healthy lives though their foods are so heavy and rich.

As a physician, Ive often wonderedas have many of my patientswhat it is, exactly, that makes all these good diets so special. If the people in Japan, eating lots of fish and fresh vegetables, and the people of the Mediterranean, eating dairy and foods drenched in olive oil, can enjoy superior health, and attribute their good health to the foods they eat, then how is it thatenjoying apparently different foodsthey can both lay claim to the number one, best diet on Earth? Could it be that many cultures hold equal claim to a fantastically successful nutritional program? Might it be that people all over the world are doing things right, acquiring the nutrients their bodies need to stay healthy and feel young by eating what appear to be different foods but which are, in reality, nutritionally equivalent?

This book comprehensively describes what could be called The Human Diet . It is the first to identify and describe the commonalities between all the most successful nutritional programs people the world over have depended on for millennia to protect their health and encourage the birth of healthy children so that the heritage of optimum health can be gifted to the next generation, and the generations that follow.

We like to talk about leaving a sustainable, healthy environment for our children. The latest science fuses the environmental discussion with the genetic one; when we talk environmental sustainability, we are necessarily talking about our genomic sustainability.

This is also the first book to discuss health across generations. Because of a new science called epigenetics , it will no longer make sense to consider our health purely on the personal level. When we think of our health, we think of our own bodies, as in I feel good, I like my weight, Im doing fine. Epigenetics is teaching us that our genes can be healthy or sick, just like we can. And if our genes are healthy when we have children, that health is imparted to them. If our genes are ailing, then that illness can be inherited as well. Because epigenetics allows us to consider health in the context of a longer timeline, we are now able to understand how what we eat as parents can change everything about our children, even the way they look. Well talk about how, with the right foods, we can get our genome into shape to give our kids a fighting chance.