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76: Why Butter Is Not Really Unhealthy
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- Gubba Homestead Podcast
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- Jul 7, 2026
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Summary
Shop my all-natural skincare products at Arvoti.com . Butter sat at the center of nearly every kitchen for thousands of years. Then within a few decades, people were afraid to eat it. I'm a first-time homesteader following in the footsteps of my great-grandparents, and butter is now a daily staple in my kitchen after years of believing it was unhealthy. The shift in how I see it didn't come from a study. It came from paying attention. My great-grandmother milked her own cow and churned her own butter. By the time I was a teenager, my friends and I were chasing low-fat labels and avoiding the same food our ancestors had prized for generations. Margarine showed up in a spray bottle in my house once, and my body knew within one bite that something was off. That memory stuck for a reason. The story of butter isn't really about dairy. It's about how trusted foods get replaced, how marketing rewrites memory, and what happens to a family kitchen when you stop asking where the food came from. You’ll Learn: [0:00] Introduction [1:44] I was a teenager raised on low-fat diets and taught to fear butter [4:56] The “I Can't Believe It's Not Butter” memory that revealed the deception [11:32] What Weston A. Price discovered about traditional cultures and animal fats [13:47] Why vitamins A, E, and K2 found in butter make it essential [14:57] How margarine and factory food replaced the farm in the 20th century [18:19] The mystery-funded studies that convinced doctors saturated fat causes heart disease [20:37] Why heart disease skyrocketed after butter and lard left the kitchen [22:16] Question everything and put butter back at the centre of your kitchen Related Gubba Homestead Episodes: The Truth About Milk: What Changed and Why It Matters These Secrets Hidden in Mainstream Histor…