October 18, 2026 · 27 min

The Remarkable Secrets of Olive Oil

Olive oil has been treated as food and medicine for thousands of years. The research is finally catching up to what the Mediterranean always assumed.

This episode is about what actually survives the bottle — polyphenols and oleocanthal, why refining strips them out, and how to tell fresh, genuine oil from the stale or counterfeit stuff sitting on the shelf.