Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan advocates for a historical approach to nutrition, promoting the ‘four pillars’: eating meat on the bone, consuming organ meats, eating sprouted and fermented plants, and ensuring food freshness.
Main Lessons
- Explore historical diets for optimized nutrition.
- Modern processed foods lack essential nutrients.
- Eat meat on the bone for complete nutrition.
- Organ meats offer dense nutritional benefits.
- Fermented plants enhance nutrient absorption.
- Sprouting increases nutrient availability in plants.
- Freshness is key for nutrient retention.
- Question modern diet trends against historical practices.
- Align food choices with ancestral dietary patterns.
- Consider how industrialization changed food content.
- Balance between animal and plant-based diets based on history.
- Use historical context to simplify food choices.
- Learn from ancestral diets to counter modern health issues.