Best Advice for Plant-Based Athletes | Sports Nutrition Q&A with Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Learn the top foods and tips for athletes to take their game to the next level without bulking up on protein from meat and dairy. It's a formula that has worked for Novak Djokovic, Lewis Hamilton, and Kyrie Irving and now it can work for you too!
Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, authors of The Plant Based Athlete, join "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to answer viewer questions about sports nutrition and improving athletic performance with a game changing approach.
- What are the best foods for runners?
- How can you gain muscle without eating meat?
- Which foods help with muscle recovery?
- What is a healthier version of Gatorade?
- What should you eat to sustain energy during a marathon?
- And many more!
Plus, Chuck reports on a study that tested vegans and meat eaters head-to-head to see which group was able to build muscle mass more efficiently. The results are a game changer for sports nutrition!
If you have a question you'd like to ask the experts on the show, tweet it to @ChuckCarrollWLC using #ExamRoomLive.
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| 0:00.0 | Are there other specific foods that you would recommend for muscle recovery? |
| 0:03.7 | Absolutely. |
| 0:04.7 | Leafy Green vegetables are fantastic. |
| 0:06.4 | Beats, anything, even nuts and seeds that have great amino acids, building blocks of |
| 0:10.5 | protein, alkaline forming, hemp seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds, foods like that. |
| 0:16.4 | Basically, anything that's not processed, let's stay away from processed foods that can |
| 0:19.6 | lead to information. |
| 0:20.9 | And let's take on these foods like the leafy greens, the beets, the cherries, the blueberries, |
| 0:25.2 | help speed up that recovery process. |
| 0:27.2 | And also, you want to replenish your glycogen stores that are burned through, you need |
| 0:30.3 | to carve a hydrate fuel and get those amino acids to repair those damaged muscle tissues |
| 0:34.9 | as well. |
| 0:41.2 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:45.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.5 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:53.4 | This is Episode 51 from Season 4, number 246 overall. |
| 0:59.6 | And this one is all about nutrition and performance. |
| 1:04.7 | Whether it's on the court or on the field or at the track or anywhere else, the fact |
| 1:10.7 | of the matter is that plant-based athletes are growing in numbers and they are dominating |
| 1:16.7 | their sports. |
| 1:19.0 | Let me rattle off a few names for you. |
| 1:21.3 | Novac Chokovic, Lewis Hamilton, Venus Williams, Kyrie Irving. |
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