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Devils Triad with Ivor Cummins ep 475

Scott Mulvaney — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Sugar, Refined Carbohydrates/Grains, and Seed Oils, The Devil’s Triad:

The “Devil’s Triad”, a term coined by health researcher Ivor Cummins to describe the three primary components of ultra-processed foods that he identifies as the root cause of modern chronic diseases like Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Disease. The triad consists of Sugar, Refined Carbohydrates/Grains, and Seed Oils (also referred to as vegetable oils).

Cummins argues that these three ingredients drive insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction, creating a “tsunami of chronic disease” in populations that consume them heavily. His proposed solution involves eliminating these items from the diet in favor of whole, nutrient-dense foods, such as those found in low-carb or ketogenic diets.

Quote: “Five huge randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that total fat consumption does not affect rates of coronary heart disease or stroke.” ~ Ivor Cummins

Your Co-Host Today:

Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP® completed a Chemical Engineering in 1990. He has since spent over 25 years in corporate technical leadership and management positions, and was shortlisted in 2015 as one of the top 6 of 500 applicants for “Irish Chartered Engineer of the Year”. Ivor’s focus and specialty is leading teams in complex problem-solving scenarios. He has often led worldwide teams with over 60-70 engineers working on major technical issues; the largest of these involved product issues where hundreds of millions of dollars were in the balance.

Several years ago, Ivor encountered a complex technical challenge in his personal life. Receiving poor blood test results, he was unable to get solutions via the doctors consulted. He thus embarked on an intense period of biochemical research into the science of human metabolism. Within eight weeks he had resolved and optimized all of his blood test metrics. Also, he had shed over 15Kg of bodyfat with relative ease. In the following years he continued his research on the many “root causes” of modern disease, from “cholesterol” through to insulin resistance. In order to help stem the tide of chronic disease in our modern population, he embarked on a personal mission to share the science and solutions. He began this process by giving corporate talks and releasing them on YouTube for the wider audience. He has since become a professional speaker of note, giving many public lectures and chairing interviews with worldwide health experts. Most notably he was invited by the President of the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) to give a keynote talk on heart disease root causes, at their annual conference in London last October. All of Ivor’s public lectures and interviews are available on his YouTube channel, where well over a million views have been recorded to date: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPn4FsiQP15nudug9FDhluA.

His book on chronic disease root causes and resolution strategies (co-authored with Denver doctor Jeffry Gerber MD, FAAFP) was released in the US and Canada in March 2018. It has already received around 150 reviews on Amazon, of which ~97% are 5-star:

https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Live-Long-Mastering/dp/1628602732/

His blog and other content is available at www.thefatemperor.com

From early 2018 Ivor has been fully funded by the Irish Heart Disease Awareness charity (www.IHDA.ie). This fulfils their mission in enabling all middle-risk people access the power of the Coronary Artery Calcification scan (CAC). He has thus ramped up his passion to help the people help themselves – in a journey to health, weight-loss and longevity.

Ivor lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and five children.

Today’s Top Takeaways:

Health Approach:

Ivor and Scott emphasized physical and mental strength, metabolic health, critical thinking, and resilience.
They discussed low-carbohydrate and carnivore-style eating, avoiding sugars, refined grains, and seed oils, and using detailed blood testing to evaluate individual outcomes.
They questioned incentives within conventional healthcare and discussed independent, membership-based medical practices and books such as Undoctored.

Psychology And Agency:

Ivor described the difference between fixed and growth mindsets and identified self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness, and social influence as a progression for communicating effectively.
They discussed how fear, anxiety, propaganda, and group narratives can shape public behavior, particularly during the COVID period.
The conversation repeatedly returned to focusing on personal health, local relationships, practical skills, and decisions within individual control.
How can people evaluate competing health claims without replacing one form of indoctrination with another?
How can difficult conversations encourage curiosity and growth rather than polarization?

Today’s Guest Co-Host Links:

Mentioned Influencers:

Dr. Jeffry Gerber, MD https://jgerbermd.com/
Book: UNDOCTORED by Dr. William Davis, MD https://a.co/d/01dGxRQY
Vinnie Tortorich #NSNG https://vinnietortorich.com/
Book: The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Professor Mattias Desmet https://a.co/d/00smUO9o

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FAT, Oils, Obesity, Cytokine Storm and KETO with Dr. Cate

Scott Mulvaney — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Author of the new book, The FATBURN Fix, Dr. Cate Shanahan joins us on today’s new Health Podcast talking FAT, Seed Oils, and more:

Dr. Cate Shanahan is the leading authority on nutrition and human metabolism. A board-certified Family Physician with over 20 years of clinical experience, and NY Times bestselling author of The FatBurn Fix, Deep Nutrition, and Food Rules, her expertise is fixing the underlying problems that cause metabolic damage and inflammation, leading to autoimmunity, weight gain, diabetes, cancer, and accelerated aging processes. Her passion is helping people feel their best.

My training is in Family Medicine and my background is in biochemistry and genetics, having studied at Cornell. I’ve authored three books including Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food and THE FATBURN FIX, with MacMillan, released in March 2020. In 2011 I created a nutrition program for the LA Lakers that many NBA and professional sports teams have emulated. This program, along with the 2008 edition of my first book Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food is credited with helping spark the current bone-broth and collagen craze, as well as inspiring thought leaders in the nutrition and KETO space.

Since 2018, I’ve assisted ABC Fine Wines and Spirits to optimize the health of their 1600+ employees and family members by providing concierge care and creating educational programs. Objective markers of success include biomarkers and the elimination of medications.

I’ve served as an independent advisor or consultant to dozens of companies and organizations throughout the world including the LA Lakers, OKC Thunder, Villanova Basketball, beliv – CBC Beverages, & Natural Stacks.

I have been featured in The Magic Pill documentary and The Real Skinny on Fat docu-series, interviewed by Good Morning America, Scientific American, Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal, CNN, US News and World Report, Prevention Magazine, Vogue, National Geographic, GQ, the New York Post, Woman’s World, People Magazine among others as well as numerous radio talk shows and popular podcasts.

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

Avoid Seed Oils.
Obesity and Diabetes rates are Excessive.
Get back in the garden.

Today’s Resource Links from the Podcast:

Our Mentioned Influencers:

Vinnie Tortorich and Fitness Confidential at HTTP://vinnietortorich.com

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Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30 – Introduction

10:00 – Not all FAT is created equal. The kinds of fats that are in the seeds that we’ve all been unknowingly consuming, the seed oils are those called polygon stable, they should be called polyunsaturated, and they’re unstable. So that’s why they stay liquid in the fridge, that’s why they’re softer, right? That’s why they add them because they’re unstable.

20:00 – PUFA aka Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid.

30:00 – I was a doctor and I had the symptoms of hypoglycemia myself. I would have my cereal, Raisin Bran for breakfast with my skim milk. If I was really indulgent, I’d have 2%, and added sugar, of course, had to have more sugar on that. So that would be at seven AM and then by noon or one PM, whenever I got to my lunch, my fingers were cold and I’d be shaky. I would be kind of like, oh come on, just give me my lunch already. Those symptoms, that’s hypoglycemia. So I was already on that diabetes spectrum, and I had no clue.

40:00 – At the turn of the century, 50% of Americans lived on farms. Now I would be willing to bet that would also be that of our small business world. But that was America. What made America great was the fact that we were founded on small business farmers, we were self-sufficient people, we knew how to make good food. That’s what made us great, that’s actually, by the way, a huge reason why a lot of English people left England too.

50:00 – So that’s why I have two phases in the plan that talks about the baby-steps phase for folks who are more metabolically damaged and need to spend more time with taking those baby steps. If you’re not quite so metabolically damaged, then you can jump right into a KETO diet. But the two phases are to fix your metabolism and then burn your body fat. If you have a really high-fat burn factor, you can just start right into cutting calories by intermittent fasting.

54:30 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

The thought that I want to leave people with is that food used to be this holy transcendental sensation. It wasn’t just about energy. It was about connecting with your family and your environment. It was about how good you can make something tasty and how much time you could spend in the kitchen. How much time you could spend prepping the animal’s yourselves and growing your own food.

We have completely turned that as a thing that we need to turn upside down, they talk about turning the food pyramid upside down. If we could turn our pride, our food priority upside down, and get back to where we have been for our entire humanity, human history until like the industrial era, when TV shows told us that, the kitchen was just like a place you wanted to get out of as fast as possible, you should eat microwave dinners. Before the TV told us this, we knew in our bones, that if you spent time in your garden, that food was going to be good for you. I don’t care what it is, what kind of vegetable it is, it was going to be good for you. If you raised animals yourselves, you knew that they were healthy. You knew that the food was good. Forget about saturated fat and all of this kind of stuff. That’s what matters and that’s the only thing that matters. I would love it if we could shift the conversation away from macros and calories and to things like healthy soil and healthy plants and animals.

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