Paul Saladino

It's important to understand that olive and avocado are fruit oils. And I'll talk about those later. But those are not seeds. We don't make avocado oil from an avocado seed. We make it from the actual avocado pulp from the fruit. And olives are made from the fruit of the olive, not the seed of the olive. So there's a big difference.

When you make an olive or an avocado oil, you just press, you press the fruit, right? If you've seen an olive press, you know, they make, they either do it by centrifuge where they spin it and the oil goes out, or they have a big press and they kind of press the oil out and the oil comes out. How do you get oil out of a cotton seed or a soybean? They're not very oily.

When you make an olive or an avocado oil, you just press, you press the fruit, right? If you've seen an olive press, you know, they make, they either do it by centrifuge where they spin it and the oil goes out, or they have a big press and they kind of press the oil out and the oil comes out. How do you get oil out of a cotton seed or a soybean? They're not very oily.

When you make an olive or an avocado oil, you just press, you press the fruit, right? If you've seen an olive press, you know, they make, they either do it by centrifuge where they spin it and the oil goes out, or they have a big press and they kind of press the oil out and the oil comes out. How do you get oil out of a cotton seed or a soybean? They're not very oily.

How do you get oil out of a sunflower seed or a kernel of corn? You have to go through this complex industrial process to refine the oil out of those things. This is an interesting thing to consider. Today, in 2025, the average American eats the equivalent of around five tablespoons of seed oils per day. 1900, we had zero.

How do you get oil out of a sunflower seed or a kernel of corn? You have to go through this complex industrial process to refine the oil out of those things. This is an interesting thing to consider. Today, in 2025, the average American eats the equivalent of around five tablespoons of seed oils per day. 1900, we had zero.

How do you get oil out of a sunflower seed or a kernel of corn? You have to go through this complex industrial process to refine the oil out of those things. This is an interesting thing to consider. Today, in 2025, the average American eats the equivalent of around five tablespoons of seed oils per day. 1900, we had zero.

To get five tablespoons of seed oil from corn, you'd have to eat 70 ears of corn. So you have to use massive amounts, two and a half plus pounds of soybeans to make five tablespoons of soybean oil. Similar figure with sunflower seeds, right? So these are historically inappropriate amounts of consumption of these substances. We never would have been exposed to this historically.

To get five tablespoons of seed oil from corn, you'd have to eat 70 ears of corn. So you have to use massive amounts, two and a half plus pounds of soybeans to make five tablespoons of soybean oil. Similar figure with sunflower seeds, right? So these are historically inappropriate amounts of consumption of these substances. We never would have been exposed to this historically.

To get five tablespoons of seed oil from corn, you'd have to eat 70 ears of corn. So you have to use massive amounts, two and a half plus pounds of soybeans to make five tablespoons of soybean oil. Similar figure with sunflower seeds, right? So these are historically inappropriate amounts of consumption of these substances. We never would have been exposed to this historically.

Hunter-gatherers, they eat seeds and nuts sometimes, but mostly when they're starving. I didn't see the Hadza eat a single seed or nut when I was there. So to get oil out of these things, which we've done because of an industrial process that makes oils that are cheap, very profitable, and have very shelf-stable, you have refining, bleaching, deodorizing.

Hunter-gatherers, they eat seeds and nuts sometimes, but mostly when they're starving. I didn't see the Hadza eat a single seed or nut when I was there. So to get oil out of these things, which we've done because of an industrial process that makes oils that are cheap, very profitable, and have very shelf-stable, you have refining, bleaching, deodorizing.

Hunter-gatherers, they eat seeds and nuts sometimes, but mostly when they're starving. I didn't see the Hadza eat a single seed or nut when I was there. So to get oil out of these things, which we've done because of an industrial process that makes oils that are cheap, very profitable, and have very shelf-stable, you have refining, bleaching, deodorizing.

So you have to heat the oil to over 450 degrees Fahrenheit, which essentially damages the oil, oxidizes the oil, makes it rancid. You have to extract it with hexane, which is contaminated with benzene. You have to do sodium hydroxide washing. You have to deodorize and bleach because if they didn't do this industrial process, it wouldn't even be palatable for humans.

So you have to heat the oil to over 450 degrees Fahrenheit, which essentially damages the oil, oxidizes the oil, makes it rancid. You have to extract it with hexane, which is contaminated with benzene. You have to do sodium hydroxide washing. You have to deodorize and bleach because if they didn't do this industrial process, it wouldn't even be palatable for humans.

So you have to heat the oil to over 450 degrees Fahrenheit, which essentially damages the oil, oxidizes the oil, makes it rancid. You have to extract it with hexane, which is contaminated with benzene. You have to do sodium hydroxide washing. You have to deodorize and bleach because if they didn't do this industrial process, it wouldn't even be palatable for humans.

So what you end up with on the back end is this, historically inappropriate concoction of something that is now marketed to humans as a healthy oil. Well, how can that possibly be? It's clearly an industrial hyper-processed food. Well, the whole reason that seed oils are told to us as healthy is because of the cholesterol idea.

So what you end up with on the back end is this, historically inappropriate concoction of something that is now marketed to humans as a healthy oil. Well, how can that possibly be? It's clearly an industrial hyper-processed food. Well, the whole reason that seed oils are told to us as healthy is because of the cholesterol idea.

So what you end up with on the back end is this, historically inappropriate concoction of something that is now marketed to humans as a healthy oil. Well, how can that possibly be? It's clearly an industrial hyper-processed food. Well, the whole reason that seed oils are told to us as healthy is because of the cholesterol idea.

So we kind of have to talk about cholesterol any time we talk about seed oils. So 1900, no real heart attacks in the population. Most doctors had never even seen a heart attack. Heart attacks became a thing in the zeitgeist in the United States in the 1950s when Eisenhower had his first heart attack. And I think it was 1955 that he had his first heart attack.