Some Of The Craziest Superfoods You’ve Never Heard Of.
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Ben Greenfield
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🗓️ 14 July 2012
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Meet vegan ultra-endurance athlete Rich Roll. If you've read this blog for a few months, you may recall Rich from the article I published on "How To Be Extremely Active And Eat A Plant-Based Diet Without Destroying Your Body." Rich just wrote a book about why he's a vegan. More specifically, the book is about [...]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here. |
| 0:04.0 | I finished a pretty cool book a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:07.7 | The name of the book was Finding Ultra and it was written by an ultra endurance athlete |
| 0:13.0 | who I've actually written about over at BenGreenfieldFitness.com when I talked about how to actually |
| 0:18.5 | pull off a plant-based diet and do it right and still be an incredibly active individual. |
| 0:24.9 | Well, the guy who is on the line with me right now has been a top finisher at the 0809 |
| 0:30.5 | Ultraman World Championships in Hawaii. |
| 0:32.9 | For those of you who don't know what that is, it's basically a three-day double Ironman. |
| 0:38.5 | He's also done the Epic 5 Challenge, which is essentially five Ironman triathlons in |
| 0:43.0 | five days on the islands of Hawaii in under a week and he's done a lot of other things |
| 0:50.4 | too. |
| 0:51.4 | Way back in the 80s, it's Stanford University and is doing quite a bit in the whole realm |
| 0:59.2 | of plant-based nutrition for athletes. |
| 1:02.4 | I wanted to get him on today to talk about his journey and what he's up to and how he |
| 1:08.6 | pulls all this off on a plant-based diet. |
| 1:11.4 | Rich Roll is on the call with me. |
| 1:13.1 | Rich, how you doing? |
| 1:14.1 | Hey Ben, how's it going? |
| 1:16.1 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:17.1 | Yeah, no problem. |
| 1:20.2 | In reading your book, you outlined quite the journey that you've had from your competitive |
| 1:25.5 | swimming days at Stanford to kind of going full circle and coming back. |
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