Plant-Based Diet for Athletes: Eat to Optimize Performance | Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
How can an athlete succeed by eating so much differently than their competitors? What does a plant-based diet for athletes look like? The fundamentals of eating a plant-based diet to optimize athletic performance are revealed as Olympic medalist Dotsie Bausch and Dr. Nanci Guest join “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
Topics Discussed
- Sports nutrition science
- Injury prevention
- Recovery time
- Getting enough protein
- Best plant-based protein sources
- Enhanced oxygen use
- Building muscle without meat
- Best foods for endurance
- Anti-inflammatory foods
- Macro and micronutrients
- And more!
You will learn about the edge many of the world’s top athletes are getting by making the dietary change.
Bausch pedaled past competitors many years younger than she was en route to capturing a silver medal in 2012.
Dr. Guest was head dietitian at both the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and the Toronto 2015 Pan Am games. She also has served as a nutrition consultant for many members of the Canadian Olympic teams, the NHL, NBC, CFL and women's national ice hockey teams.
Bausch and Guest are co-authors of Let The Plant-based Games Begin: Optimizing Athletic Performance with Plant-based Nutrition.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the exam room, I felt like every workout I was like ready to go. |
| 0:06.3 | And before that, it was like, oh, maybe the second workout or third workout I believe. |
| 0:09.8 | All right. |
| 0:10.8 | This is enough. |
| 0:11.8 | But then, after a while, I really started noticing strength gains, which I wasn't expecting |
| 0:18.2 | at all. |
| 0:19.2 | And I was switching over, I had been a road, a professional road cyclist for 10 years. |
| 0:23.2 | So a much more life, you know, kind of slender frame. |
| 0:27.1 | So I had a lot of glute and hamstring and quad muscle that I needed to put on. |
| 0:33.5 | And so when I was eating animals, we were working at about 300 pounds times 30 reps times |
| 0:40.0 | five sets. |
| 0:41.7 | And just before Olympic Games, when I started tapering down, I was up to 585 pounds times |
| 0:48.4 | 60 reps times six sets. |
| 0:51.0 | Now we'll never know if I was going to be able to do that on animal foods, because I get |
| 0:54.3 | that all the time. |
| 0:55.3 | Correct. |
| 0:56.3 | But the point is, I did it on plants. |
| 0:58.6 | So, string. |
| 1:07.6 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:11.7 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in |
| 1:19.4 | more than 150 countries. |
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