Hello, I'm Monica Reinagle, and you're listening to The Nutrition Diva

podcast. Welcome.

NFL Star Tom Brady's new book just hit the shelves, accompanied by massive fanfare.

Perhaps you've already heard some about it.

The book outlines his TB-12 method, and this is a holistic approach to training, nutrition and lifestyle that he promises

will help you achieve a lifetime of sustained peak performance.

Now that Tom Brady has had a long career as an elite athlete is beyond question.

How much his approach to nutrition has to do with his success is somewhat debatable. Although there is some good advice, most of the nutrition

information in this book is just nonsense, stuff that's been circulating around the

mythosphere for decades decades if not longer.

Brady and his team recycle all of that here, accompanied by the usual quasi-scientific mumbojumbo.

Some of these principles have been around for thousands of years, he writes.

Yep, that doesn't make him true, just old.

For example, Brady advises us not to drink too much water with our meals because it interferes with digestion and quote

washes away the body's natural enzymes which break down your food end quote.

As I've pointed out before this doesn't really make sense.

Some of the healthiest foods we eat, such as raw vegetables, are up to 90% water.

And no one worries about vegetables diluting your stomach acid or your enzymes.

The body is clearly designed to digest food just fine in the presence of water.

Although he doesn't want you drinking water with your meals, Brady is passionate about hydration.

And the amount of water that he suggests drinking, anywhere from 4 to 6 liters a day, is far in excess of the amount of water you would need to stay hydrated,

unless of course you're currently serving on a chain gang in Death Valley.

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