Nina Teicholz
Appearances
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
For some reason, we've been told that the Mediterranean dietary pattern, as it's lauded in the Western medical literature, involves canola oil and all of these crap oils and that you can't cook with extra virgin olive oil.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
It's actually a myth that you can't cook with extra virgin olive oil. In the Mediterranean region of the world, they use extra virgin olive oil not just to cook with, but they use it as a sauce.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
It's actually a myth that you can't cook with extra virgin olive oil. In the Mediterranean region of the world, they use extra virgin olive oil not just to cook with, but they use it as a sauce.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
And somehow, for some reason, we've been told that the Mediterranean dietary pattern, as it's lauded in the Western medical literature, involves canola oil and all of these crap oils and that you can't cook with extra virgin olive oil. But that's a total myth.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
Well, I'll say that it's much safer to cook at high temperatures with olive oil than it is to cook at high temperatures with a grain and seed oil like a soybean oil or a corn oil. And you have to ask what olive oil is constructed with that might predispose it to oxidation. And when you actually look at extra virgin olive oil, it's about 85% monounsaturated fat, very chemically stable.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
I mean, think about it. Avocado oil, which is praised for its high smoking point, is mostly monounsaturated, right? So if monounsaturated fat was prone to oxidation, avocado oil would not be a high heat cooking oil, right? And then 15% of extra virgin olive oil is saturated fat. which we know is highly heat stable.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
So you're right in that the polyphenols might degrade to a point when you cook with olive oil at high temperatures. But what's not going to happen with extra virgin olive oil, you can rest assured that it's not going to become the cancer causing mutagenic disfigured oil product that you get when you cook with soybean oil or corn oil to high temperatures.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
I'm not a fan of grain and seed oils.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
Yeah, the nutritional and medical orthodoxy can't see beyond the fact that these grain and seed oils do lower LDL cholesterol, which according to the orthodoxy is the end all be all indicator of cardiovascular risk, right? Yeah. So they're unable to see past that. And it's true that grain and seed oils do reduce your LDL and APOB. when compared to saturated fats and certain saturated fats.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
Because as you mentioned, a fat is not a fat is not a fat. Not all saturated fats are created equal. We have stearic acid, which has a neutral effect on cardiovascular risk.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
there are other problems with grain and seed oils that we that that we need to talk about they're prone to oxidation and these oxidized fats integrate themselves into all aspects of our physiology they get tugged along by lipoproteins in our blood so you've got these um these lipoproteins that that that carry triglycerides and cholesterol around our bodies dropping off nutrients right yeah and when we we ingest these oxidized fats
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
get tugged around by these ldl um by these lipoproteins by chylomicrons by the ldl lipoprotein and that makes them that that gives them an inflammatory phenotype makes them more prone to adhering to immune cells which we know is early uh an early occurrence in the development of atherosclerosis right um we know that they integrate themselves into our fat tissue and they provide the precursor molecules to our inflammation pathway
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Industry Secret Keeping You Inflamed, Tired, & Bloated | Nina Teicholz & Max Lugavere
We also know that these grain and seed oils have a small but significant amount of trans fats, man-made trans fats, due to the production process. They undergo a step in the production process called deodorization, which creates trans fats. And we cook with them. They become oxidized. They generate free radicals. And what generates are also oxidative byproducts like aldehydes.