Dave AspreyCreator of Biohacking, Longevity Expert & 4x NY Times Bestselling Author

Seed oils cause diabetes & cancer.

Name: Seed oils cause diabetes & cancer.
Uploaded: 2025-05-10T21:30:06+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Dave Asprey
Description: In this brief monologue, the speaker argues that traditional Indian diets, rich in dairy fat such as ghee, were historically free of widespread diabetes…

10 May 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker argues that traditional Indian diets, rich in dairy fat such as ghee, were historically free of widespread diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. He claims that the introduction of American‑owned vegetable (seed) oil companies into India, and the subsequent replacement of traditional fats with these oils, led to a rapid rise in obesity, diabetes, and even cancer. The speaker positions seed oils as the primary dietary culprit and promotes ghee as a healthier alternative, citing personal involvement in popularising ghee in the United States.

When India, which is largely but not entirely vegetarian, when they ate a lot of dairy fat. Ghee is clarified butter. I made ghee famous in the US by putting it in coffee. Well, they didn't have all this diabetes, all this heart attack stuff. It was only when American companies came to India and then we convinced them to get rid of their traditional oils to have healthy vegetable oil and charged them more for it, that obesity skyrocketed. So we know that it's seed oils that are causing diabetes and even cancer.