Canola oil is widely marketed as a heart-healthy fat, yet its origins as an industrial lubricant and extreme processing raise serious concerns. This evidence-based breakdown explores how canola oil is made, why it lowers LDL cholesterol, what early research actually found, and whether oxidation—not cholesterol alone—may be the real driver of cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

Seed oils are often promoted as heart-healthy because they lower LDL cholesterol — but that’s only part of the story. This evidence-based breakdown explores how seed oils contribute to oxidation, toxic byproducts, and long-term metabolic stress, and why focusing on LDL alone may miss the real drivers of chronic disease.

Netflix’s You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment claims a “healthy vegan” diet outperforms an omnivorous diet — but the real story is more nuanced. In this evidence-based breakdown, I walk through what the Stanford identical-twin trial actually measured (and what it didn’t), how to interpret LDL vs HDL/triglycerides, and why short-term results don’t automatically translate to long-term health outcomes.