Seed oils and antibiotics are the main culprits behind rising obesity, according to this argument. Antibiotics destroy gut bacteria and slow metabolism, while seed oils replace saturated fats that speed it up. The speaker traces their own metabolic problems to chronic antibiotic use for strep throat.
Our seed oil consumption has gone up hand in hand with obesity. There's also the destruction of our microbiome in soil by antibiotics that we only really started using in the 60s and 70s, just all over the place. I grew up, I took antibiotics every month for a week because I had chronic strep throat, because I lived in a house with toxic mold. So it used to be that I would have either solved the problem or moved, or maybe I wouldn't have made it, to be perfectly honest. But since we had all that medication, my gut still shows signs of someone who took antibiotics for a long period of time. Even worse, we're doing this in our animals, so the amount of saturated fat that we eat has gone down. Saturated fat accelerates your metabolism, and corn oil, soybean oils, seed oils slow your metabolism. This is provable.
