#020 Rich Roll on Self-Transformation, Environmental Impact of Food, and the Plant-Based Diet
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Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.
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🗓️ 23 January 2016
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Rich Roll
This podcast features Rich Roll. Rich is an author, a podcaster ("Rich Roll Podcast" on iTunes), as well as founder and first person to complete the EPIC5 Challenge. The EPIC5 challenge involves completing 5 Full Iron Distance triathlons on 5 Hawaiian islands in under a week. Rich has also been a repeated top finisher in the Ultraman World Championships in Hawaii, which is a three-day, 515km (320 mile) annual endurance race held on the Big Island of Hawaii.
You can read about Rich's journey to Ultraman competitor in his book, "Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself."
If you're interested in learning more, you can read the full show notes here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my dear friends! Today's podcast features my friend Rich Role, which is an author, |
| 0:04.6 | a podcaster, as well as founder and first person to complete the Epic 5 Challenge. |
| 0:09.2 | The Epic 5 Challenge involves completing five full Iron Man distant triathlons |
| 0:13.7 | on five Hawaiian islands and under a week, which has also been a repeated top finisher in the Ultraman |
| 0:19.6 | World Championships, which is a 320-mile endurance race that is divided into three stages over three |
| 0:25.5 | days. The first stage includes a 6.2 mile ocean swim followed by a 90 mile cross-country bike ride |
| 0:31.8 | with vertical climbs that total 6,000 feet. Stage 2 is 171.4 mile bike ride with total vertical |
| 0:39.0 | climbs of over 4,000 feet. And finally, stage 3 is a 52.4 mile double marathon. Wow! With a 100% |
| 0:49.3 | confidence, I can say that Rich has accomplished some pretty amazing physical feats. In this podcast, |
| 0:55.9 | the amazing Rich, and I discuss many, many interesting topics, including Rich's journey from being |
| 1:02.8 | a self-described addict to normal but unhealthy guy to vegan and eventual super athlete. |
| 1:09.2 | The importance of clearance-specific actionable steps when you're implementing sweeping change. |
| 1:14.3 | We discuss the recent documentary, Cow Spiracy and the chilling effect of |
| 1:18.3 | ad gag laws on journalism that might otherwise expose animal rights abuses by the agricultural |
| 1:23.6 | industry. We talk about Rich's motivational shift from eating plant-based for the reasons |
| 1:28.7 | of performance to eventually being more motivated by a deeper concern for the environmental impact |
| 1:33.8 | and animal well-being impact of choosing to avoid animal products. The effect of the microbiome |
| 1:39.6 | on the type or quantity of foods that you crave and how the microbiome can predispose us or |
| 1:46.0 | conversely protect us from obesity and how focusing on getting the right bacterial substrates to |
| 1:52.4 | feed the microbiome, i.e. dietary fiber from plants, maybe a more important and more effective |
| 2:00.4 | than focusing on what foods to avoid or to remove from your diet. We talk about the role of food |
| 2:06.0 | in modulating the amount of inflammation your body experiences and how this can affect your |
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