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So whether you're an Iron Man triathlete or you're just trying to shed a few pounds,

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What you are about to hear is a recording of a nutritional evaluation that I did for one

of the professional athletes who I work with.

And I wanted to put this out there for you, the premium listener, just because I think

that you'll get some value out of it.

So enjoy.

Okay, what I want to do here is go over a week's worth of eating in what's obviously a really

physically active scenario.

And I got to tell you, when I was a bodybuilder and I was a young, hard charging athlete who

was able to just like work out all day long, I did dump a lot of things into my body that

my body could just process due to the high amount of physical activity that I was engaged

in.

But the problem is it eventually catches up with you if you are dumping a lot of inflammatory

omega-6 fatty acids into your body and affecting your joints and the total amount of inflammatory

cytokines that your body produces.

It eventually catches up to you if you are dumping a lot of preservatives and artificial

components into your body just because those tend to build in places like your liver and

your gut.

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