Game Changing Science: The Truth About Vegan Athletes
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 11 September 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
"Someone asked me how could you get as strong as an ox without eating meat? My answer was, 'have you ever seen an ox eating meat?'" - Patrik Baboumian, record-setting Strongman, from The Game Changers.
That is the epiphany of a hulking gentleman who squats the equivalent of five kegs of beer or two and half full-grown panda bears. Baboumian is truly one of the strongest men in the world and he is fueled exclusively a vegan diet.
On this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll goes one-on-one with Dr. Jim Loomis who is featured in The Game Changers documentary. For years he was tasked with keeping million dollar athletes healthy as a team physician for both the St. Louis Cardinals baseball franchise as well as the Rams NFL franchise.
Loomis reveals the mind-boggling list of foods the average player will eat on game day and why switching their diet could improve their performance on the field.
More importantly, he also details how he overcame a series of health issues after switching to a plant-based diet himself. The change was so dramatic that he was able to complete an iron man triathlon shortly after his 60th birthday!
We also hear from a young man who is trying a plant-based diet for the first time. He is fairly athletic, loves to play sports recreationally, and looking for a little bit of an edge. So what will he discover? Find out with us as we track his "vegan curious" journey.
Dr. Loomis' Shake Recipe
Dr. Loomis' shake recipe is available in our free "Food Power for Athletes" e-book. Download from the Vegan Nutrition for Athlete Page.
Download: http://bit.ly/loomisshake
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| 0:00.0 | One of my lifelong goals has always been to do an Ironman |
| 0:02.5 | Thraft Lawn and being able to do that two weeks after my 60th |
| 0:06.3 | birthday, to me it was almost miraculous. |
| 0:09.6 | And to experience the things I hear from these really |
| 0:13.1 | amazing professional Olympic athletes and be able to |
| 0:16.5 | experience that myself as far as performance and recovery, |
| 0:19.5 | was really pretty amazing. |
| 0:20.9 | Well hello there and welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the |
| 0:33.7 | Physicians Committee. Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thanks so |
| 0:37.3 | much for giving the show a listen this week. A download of you wherever it is in |
| 0:41.9 | the world that you are. We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm going to start this week by telling you a little story. |
| 0:53.0 | The NFL it kicked off the season last week. They're one hundredth season by the |
| 0:58.6 | way. And in Philadelphia the Eagles found themselves down 20 to 7 to |
| 1:05.3 | Washington. And then Carson Wentz and Company rattled off 25 straight points |
| 1:13.5 | dominating the second half in route to a 32 to 27 victory. |
| 1:20.2 | And then meanwhile just outside of Boston Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl |
| 1:25.6 | champion New England Patriots trampled absolutely trampled the Pittsburgh |
| 1:30.8 | Steelers 33 to 3. And then over in the Wendy City |
| 1:36.7 | Aaron Rogers and the Green Bay Packers upset the Chicago Bears 10 to 3. |
| 1:43.8 | And Wesley Woodyard and the Tennessee Titans they went up to Cleveland and put a |
| 1:48.7 | damper on the Browns opening day celebration, |
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