060: Dr. Fred Bisci | 50 years on only raw fruits and vegetables

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr. Fred Bisci tells us how to cut out processed foods from our diet to vastly improve health and athletic performance. In his case, though, “processed” also means any form of cooking. Bisci has found through fifty years of eating a raw vegan diet that meat and cooked foods are optional - and may even be detrimental. Incredibly active at age 85, Bisci certainly makes a good case. Yet he urges us not to follow his and Joe’s example: instead of taking the extreme measure of going 100% raw from the start, try making a more gradual transition.

Lessons:
1. In Bisci’s experience, athletic performance can be amazing on a diet of only raw fruits and vegetables.
2. If switching to a purely raw diet is too extreme, the most important way to improve your diet is to eliminate processed food, anything from a can or a box.
3. When coming off of the standard American diet onto this one, it’s common to go through a detox period in which you’ll feel ill. Persist through it and you’ll feel great eventually.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast. We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life to become successful no matter how they defined it.
0:12.0	We are back in Pittsfield, Vermont on a sunny day with the team. We got Colonel
0:17.8	Nyra, we've got me, Joe, we've got Johnny, and we got Melissa who has
0:22.0	changed her name to Mariette.
0:24.0	She doesn't want anybody to know that all the views we get what her real name is.
0:29.0	So anyway, we did Dr. Fred Bishi, and I think you guys are going to love him.
0:33.4	He's actually performing an experiment on himself.
0:35.7	He's only eating raw fruits and vegetables for 50 years.
0:38.1	He's 80-something years old.
0:39.6	He's still strong as an ox, although he looks thin because of what he's eating.
0:45.7	Healthy as can be and is absolutely convinced that if the game in life is longevity,
0:52.0	this is the way you do it.
0:53.0	I'm here with, Spartan up the podcast.
0:56.0	I'm here with Dr. Fred Bichy.
0:58.0	Dr. Fred Bichy is going to be 85 years old.
1:02.0	He's superhuman. 50 50 years this is all he's been eaten
1:06.0	raw fruits and vegetables 50 years right 50 or more than 50 50 50 50
1:10.4	50 years he can still run a marathon he's healthy as can be
1:16.8	does kung-foo I watched him submit a guy before
1:21.1	My phone is ringing hang hang on a second.
1:24.0	Wait a minute.
1:25.0	It might be our delivery of vegetables.
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