029: Graham Phillips – Seed Oils and Why They Are Bad For Us

Graham Phillips

Graham Phillips BPharm FRPharmS is a second generation community pharmacist. He describes himself as “The Pharmacist who Gave Up Drugs! “

Having played a very senior leadership role in the pharmacy profession he became disillusioned with the NHS one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare with its emphasis on waiting for symptoms to arise before treating (suppressing?) them with drugs. He pioneered a new approach using his scientific knowledge, clinical expertise and new technology which resulted in the ProLongevity service.

The ProLongevity programme helps people who want to lose weight, improve wellbeing and avoid/reverse diabetes, by using new technology to monitor real-time blood sugar levels. We provide personalised advice based on your data to help you make changes to your diet and lifestyle. We avoid traditional approaches that treat symptoms after the damage has been done. Prevention is better than cure.

Graham has two sons, one is also a pharmacist and the other a corporate lawyer. He lives with his partner, Karen (a GP also passionate about lifestyle medicine) in North London.

Like Jackie, Graham is also an ambassador for the Public Health Collaboration. He believes that the world has become dominated by Big Food on the one hand (makes you sick) and Big Pharma on the other (makes you 10% better). In the end science must prevail.

Following on from Episode 19, community pharmacist, Graham Phillips, the Pharmacist that Gave Up Drugs comes back to take a deep dive into the topic of seed oils and how damaging they are to our bodies.

Graham's Top Tip

1. Read the labels on the back of food products
2. Understand the nutritional labels on the back of food products
3. If there are more than 5 ingredients on a food label put it back Summarised in a phrase “Eat real food”

Resources Mentioned

The Big Fat Surprise - Nina Teicholz

https://amzn.to/3k9t4Ts

Chris Knobbe

https://www.peak-human.com/post/chris-knobbe-md-on-vegetable-oils-the-hidden-killer

Ivor Cummings with Tucker Goodrich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY8pq8GwLVo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM

PHC UK

https://phcuk.org/

Tucker Goodrich

http://yelling-stop.blogspot.com/

Nina and Mark Hyman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc_e5ME_5Cg

Weston A. Price Foundation

https://www.westonaprice.org/

Quotes by Graham Phillips

“Medicine is important and it saves many lives, but when I looked at the fact that people just never got better and this new pathway, I can see people improving literally week by week in front of my eyes and I'm busy de-prescribing. You can't unlearn this stuff and you can't unsee it as a health professional and as a practiti