#159 IronLady Triathlete - Dr Ruth Heidrich

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Paul Vogelzang

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🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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IronLady Triathlete - Dr Ruth Heidrich

Fitness Friday Series

Soon to be 83 years young, Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D., is a seasoned raw vegan Ironman (or as she likes to say, “IronLADY”) Triathlete and is my guest today on The Not Old Better Show, Friday Fitness series. She is the winner of more than 1000 trophies, 6 Ironman Triathlons, 8 Gold Medals in the U.S. Senior Olympics, and 67 marathons including Boston, New York, & Moscow. Named One of the Ten Fittest Women in North America, she is also a breast cancer survivor and author of A Race for Life, Senior Fitness, The CHEF Cook/Rawbook, and her most recent book, Lifelong Running: How to Overcome the 11 Myths of Running & Live a Healthier Life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the not all better show. I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zag.
0:07.0	Today's show is part of our Fitness Friday series sponsored by Health IQ.
0:11.7	Remember, Health IQ is an insurance agency that helps health
0:15.2	conscious people like runners, cyclists, triathletes, and vegans get lower rates
0:21.0	on their life insurance. Go to health IQ.com slash NOBS to support the show
0:27.5	and learn more about the great healthy fitness related life insurance
0:31.1	quotes from Health IQ.
0:33.4	Well, today's show is another great one in our series.
0:36.5	Our guest today is Dr. Ruth Heydrich.
0:39.1	Dr. Heydrich is a seasoned raw vegan iron man or as she likes to say iron lady triathlete
0:47.0	she is the winner of more than a thousand trophies six iron man triathlons 8 Gold Medals in the U.S. Senior Olympics, and 67 plus marathons including
0:59.4	Boston, New York, and Moscow.
1:02.4	Named one of the 10 fittest women in North America,
1:05.0	Dr. Heydrich will give us her insights,
1:08.0	tips, and advice about how to get fit and stay fit.
1:12.0	Living a good, long, healthy, about how to get fit and stay fit.
1:13.0	Living a good, long, healthy life depends so much
1:17.0	on the food that you put into your body
1:19.8	and the exercise you get to move it around. I found this out the hard way in many cases.
1:27.0	I was running marathons and got breast cancer and this and I thought I was eating a healthy diet but as it turns out I was eating a healthy diet
1:36.7	but as it turns out I was eating a very unhealthy diet so that's when I learned how to get both the diet and the exercise
1:46.8	right and I'm supposedly the poster child for elder fitness.
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