Harvard’s New Study on Butter - Fact or Fiction?

Here we go again.

Another study claims,

seed oils are healthy and butter is unhealthy.

The study is only a few days old and the press is

running with the headlines already.

And many are saying that

this data reinforces what we've known to

be true all along that butter is

unhealthy. But does it?

Unfortunately not. I mean this is just

another example of extremely low

certainty science being

touted as high level evidence that

meaningfully answers the question of

butter versus seed oils.

But that's unfortunately far from the truth.

So let's get into the details.

Now if you followed our channel before,

you've likely heard us say

"The strength of the recommendation should

match the strength of the evidence"

or you know something similar to that effect.

Well, when it comes to nutrition

epidemiology studies like this one in question,

the strength of the

recommendation is often very strong,

despite the strength of the study being very weak.

So let's talk about that.

But in my opinion, the worst thing that can happen

from a study like this is that,

someone who eats butter or saturated fat

as part of a therapeutic low-carb or keto diet

that's improving their mental and metabolic health,

they'll see a headline like this and start to worry like

"Oh wait a second,

like maybe the diet I'm eating isn't

healthy and maybe I need to make a change,

and by making a change,

maybe they lessen the therapeutic