Vitamins A, D, E & K are fat soluble vitamins, which means you need healthy fat in your diet to be able to…
#1 Get these vitamins
#2 Absorb these vitamins
#3 Get these vitamins delivered to the cells of your body…
Healthy fats are the carrier…
… but not all fats are healthy for you…
People with low vitamin D or poor hormone production, often times don’t understand fat… they either think fat makes them fat and clogs their arteries and go on a low fat diet…
… or worse… they think that vegetable oil is good for them because they associate the word “vegetable” with healthy…
The biggest challenge I have with teaching diet is that the definition of healthy food varies from person to person…
You could say that cod liver oil from wild caught fish full of EPA, DHA and Omega-3 fatty acids is healthy… but if the person consuming this product can’t digest it, then it’s not healthy to be putting that into the body…
That’s why you have to know your body and be intuitive…
Just because you can’t digest a certain food it doesn’t mean that it’s not healthy either… that simply exposes the root issue that you need to fix with your digestive system…
So the goal of this module is twofold…
#1 To get to know what options you have as far as healthy fats…
#2 Take inventory of what you can and can’t digest….
If you are following the program step by step, this will start to make sense: hydration (especially ionic magnesium) will help you absorb vitamin D… vitamin D will in turn improve your digestion… healthy fats also help you absorb vitamin D…
So if in the past you had a hard time digesting fats, you will find that as you continue to hydrate and raise your vitamin D levels, your digestion will start to improve…
So if you have a hard time digesting fats, that just means you need to spend more time with hydration and fermented cod liver oil + butter oil… and ease into adding healthy fats… use that as a gauge to see how your fat digestion is improving…
It may not happen overnight, but that’s why health is a skill… you have to practice and make small progressions everyday to inch closer to the goal line…
For this step, choose at least one healthy fat you will start to add to your diet…
Some of my personal favorite sources of healthy fat include…
- Avocado (grown using regenerative or biodynamic farming)
- Wild caught fish eggs (get 10% off from any Ancestral Supplements product using code “Hip Hip”)
- High EPA & DHA fish oil (wild caught and traceable from boat to bottle to ensure it’s mercury-free)
- Centrifuged coconut oil
… and the number one source of healthy fat that has helped most people I’ve coached through the Beer Diet Project journey is Bone Broth…
You’ll notice I am very particular about the source of food and how it’s grown… this is part of the challenge… not all bone broth is healthy for you… if it’s not made the right way, it’s probably bad for you… and the likelihood that you’ll find real bone broth at the store is very slim… you’ll probably have to go to a farmer’s market and even then it’s not guaranteed that it’s good… so you have to either make it yourself or know what to look for when shopping for bone broth…
You’ll learn more as you advance on the journey… baby steps…
Here’s a video where we talk about what I look for in bone broth.
On the next lesson you are going to learn which foods to avoid that inhibit your body’s ability to absorb and use vitamin D…
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11 replies to "Healthy Fats for Vitamin & Hormone Production"
Bone broth!
Mmmm. Love this!! U say only coconut oil for cooking, what about grapeseed oil?
I like coconut oil and ghee for cooking… sometimes I may use butter when I’m making eggs on low heat… other oils, it really depends on the source, how they are made and many of them are better if consumed raw instead of cooking with them…
You didn’t mention grass fed butter as a healthy fat source . But you did mention butter oil ? Is that another way of saying melted butter ? Or is there really a butter oil ?!?!mind blown if so!
You mentioned fermented cod liver oil! Are you making that ? Or have I just never paid close enough attention to the bottled cod liver oil section at the store ?!
I currently take Natural Factors RX Omega 3. It says it’s mercury free.
I do use grass fed butter… I didn’t mention it here because many people going through the program have gut issues and can’t do dairy, but the program does teach how to introduce dairy later on…
Fermented Cod Liver Oil + Butter Oil is a blend… I buy it… you can’t find this at the store… it’s different than regular cod liver oil… it’s magic
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If I purchased Ghee that doesn’t specifically say “cultured”, does it mean the ghee was NOT from cultured butter? I thought to make ghee you needed to start with cultured butter. Hmmm maybe not?
I love the “Old Fashioned Health Drink” 🙂
When I’ve taken fish eggs with bone broth I feel amazing.
I’m honestly sad for all the people doing low-fat diets… I used to be one of them.
Convenience is the biggest enemy of our diet success – patience is needed….
PLANNING is also really important, taking extra thought and strategy for when you know you’ll have time constraints & how you can take small steps of improvements.
As a side note, they have cowboys on horseback, which is awesome!
There is a ton we can learn from nature….
I currently use olive oil but I understand it’s tricky with cooking as at too high temperatures it can be bad. I think I’m going to include more ghee in my diet. Thanks.
I enjoy the fermented cod lover oil. I like to cook with avocado oil, coconut oil and EVOO.
Ghee is my favorite for cooking… avocado oil and EVOO, I prefer to take those raw… coconut oil is good for cooking too, but also prefer it raw 🙂
I’ve been eating avocados every day. Probably need to find better quality.