James “Lightning” Wilks: From Ultimate Fighter To Plant-Based Crusader

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Rich Roll

Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 February 2013

⏱️ 100 minutes

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UFC / MMA / BAMF James “Lightning” Wilks joins the podcast to talk PlantPower nutrition, what it's like to grapple in the UFC, his experience winning Season 9 of “The Ultimate Fighter”, his thoughts on “low carb” and Paleo-style diets, updates on the development of his documentary on plant-based athletes and how he fuels for performance. Not only is James quite intelligent & extremely articulate, his knowledge and passion when it comes to plant-based nutrition is palpable. I hope you enjoy the interview. Also, thanks Ed Gutentag– cinematographer extraordinaire — David Kitay and team for dropping by the garage to film today's episode. At the moment, this is a rather low fi version of the HD film. Given that it is a video in excess of 90 minutes it was the only way to get it up without a 48 hour upload time. However, I'm a luddite when it comes to properly configuring HD video for YouTube, so I'll try to get this figured out and swap it out for a better resolution version. Apologies for a few audio tweaks in the video – a humming noise for a few minutes in the middle — this is our first attempt at video and we'll get better as we go. And if you have a moment, we'd love it if you could toss a quick review up on the iTunes page. It's most appreciated! Thanks for the support and hope you enjoy the show! SHOW NOTES “Is Distilled Fish Oil Toxin Free?” — NutritionFacts.org eCornell Online Professional Development Program: Certificate in Plant Based Nutrition James Wilks Wikipedia James Wilks Website PlantAthlete.com Website PlantAthlete on Facebook

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0:00.0	The Rich Roll Podcast.
0:07.2	J.I. lifestyle.
0:08.2	J.M.C. you use any supplements, how do you feel about supplements?
0:12.8	Right now I do a protein powder in brown rice or a pea hemp cranberry protein and then
0:20.3	still do some creatine right now because I'm just trying to put on a little bit of muscle
0:23.4	again.
0:25.4	Other than that I do an allergy based DHA.
0:29.9	Explain to people what DHA is and why that's important.
0:33.2	So that's basically a type of omega-3 which is an essential fatty acid and you can get
0:39.9	essential fatty acids omega-3 from flaxseed but you'll get more of the ALA and so some
0:48.4	bodies don't convert that very well into EPA and DHA so you can get it from the original
0:53.3	source.
0:54.3	A lot of people take fish oil or eat fish for their DHA and EPA but you're getting all
1:01.7	the toxins with it so fish is one of the you know highest toxin foods that there are.
1:06.6	So you know for mercury for example there's a little bit of mercury in the ocean and then
1:10.6	the algae's got a lot more than that per gram and then the small fish that eat that and
1:15.0	then the bigger fish that eat that and so humans and the American bald eagle have the highest
1:20.6	mercury content in their bodies.
1:22.4	So if you take the algae you're getting the DHA, the omega-3 without all the negatives
1:27.8	of the toxins that I found in the fish.
1:30.4	A lot of people are super gung ho on fish oil and believing it completely and this came
1:36.3	up when I did Joe Rogan's podcast it's like I take fish oil I know I feel you know better
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