Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Deep Nutrition illustrates how our ancestors used nourishment to sculpt their anatomy, engineering bodies of extraordinary health and beauty. The length of our limbs, the shape of our eyes, and the proper function of our organs are all gifts of our ancestor's collective culinary wisdom. Citing the foods of traditional cultures from the Ancient Egyptians and the Maasai to the Japanese and the French, the Shanahans identify four food categories all the world's healthiest diets have in common, the Four Pillars of World Cuisine. Using the latest research in physiology and genetics, Dr. Shanahan explains why your family's health depends on eating these foods. In a world of competing nutritional ideologies, Deep Nutrition gives us the full picture, empowering us to take control of our destiny in ways we might never have imagined.

Cate Shanahan, MD is a leading authority on nutrition. Trained in biochemistry and genetics at Cornell, Dr. Cate has two decades of experience examining the effects of food choices on a person's metabolism, brain health, immune and reproductive systems and skeletal and muscle development. 

While living in Hawaii, she found that older patients tended to be the healthiest in their family. Unlike their descendants, they were raised on traditional foods, typically endowed with strong joints and sturdy bones, and relatively few needed glasses or braces as children. Dr. Cate now helps patients obtain those same kinds of foods in order to repair damaged metabolic pathways and optimize gene expression. 

Luke Shanahan, MFA graduated from University of Iowa where he attended the prestigious Writers' Workshop as an undergrad. Since graduate school, he has taught and lectured around the country and continued to pursue his interests in literature, art, and science.

The couple designed the Los Angeles Lakers new diet, and, for the benefit of adults and children everywhere, hope to make well-sourced foods a bigger part of sports-coolness than sugary drinks.

The Shanahan's full bio can be found at: drcate.com/about-drcatecom/