How Vegan Diets Help Athletes
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 6 February 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
You don't have to be an Olympic caliber athlete to reap the benefits of a plant-based diet! In this episode of The Exam Room™ podcast, find out why athletes from 8 to 80 years old are gaining an edge by taking meat and dairy off the table.
"The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll sits down with Dr. James Loomis, medical director of the Barnard Medical Center, and dietitian Susan Levin who are co-authors of a new review scrutinizing food and athletic performance. Their findings point to some of the strongest links yet between diet and post-workout recovery.
Chuck also sits down with a man who is living proof that plant-based eating can help make even the grandest of athletic dreams come true. Eric O'Grey returns to the show after qualifying for the elusive Boston Marathon. After losing 180 pounds and reversing Type 2 diabetes, Eric was blowing past runners many years younger than himself en route to punching a ticket to Boston and posting a personal-best time. And what happens to his body after the race is just as remarkable.
The other thing you should know about Eric: A doctor once told him to buy a grave plot because his poor health was driving him to an early grave. Talk about changing your life!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, this is the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:11.1 | I am the Weight Loss Champion, Shut Carol. |
| 0:13.3 | Thanks for checking out this show. |
| 0:15.7 | We always do so appreciate it. |
| 0:18.1 | Our goal is to make you a little bit smarter, a little bit wiser, and a whole lot healthier. |
| 0:23.8 | By the time this podcast is finished. |
| 0:27.2 | Today's show is a really interesting one, particularly if you're not a couch potato. |
| 0:33.3 | Talking about athletes here. |
| 0:35.2 | You know, there were a number of people, a number of my colleagues here at the Physicians |
| 0:39.0 | Committee who recently had a review published in the Journal Nutrients examining the advantages |
| 0:46.0 | of a plant-based diet for athletes. |
| 0:49.4 | And what they found was that they have an incredible recovery time after their workouts, after |
| 0:58.5 | their events, and what really surprised us was that they also found that athletes are |
| 1:07.8 | not immune to heart disease. |
| 1:11.6 | So what is something that we know that a plant-based diet is effective in treating and managing |
| 1:18.3 | and in some cases reversing? |
| 1:20.8 | You guessed it. |
| 1:22.2 | Heart disease. |
| 1:23.2 | So to talk about that, I'm going to bring on the Physicians Committee's own nutritionist |
| 1:27.6 | dietitian extraordinaire, Susan Levin, as well as the director of the Barnard Medical |
| 1:32.5 | Center, Dr. James Lumus. |
| 1:34.8 | They were part of this review that was published. |
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