What to Eat to Reduce Injury and Recover Faster | Dr. Stephan Esser
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Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Stephan Esser, a distinguished sports medicine specialist, brings a wealth of experience and a deep commitment to plant-based living.
Trained at Harvard and the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Esser has served as the team physician for the University of North Florida's Division I athletics and now runs a sports and lifestyle medicine practice. Beyond his professional credentials, he also has experience as a top-ranked tennis player, giving him a personal understanding of the demands of high-level athletic performance.
In this episode of The Exam Room, Dr. Esser sits down with host Chuck Carroll, "The Weight Loss Champion," to explore:
- His personal journey as a fourth-generation plant-based eater
- The connection between plant-based nutrition and athletic performance
- Key nutrition tips for athletes to prevent injuries, reduce inflammation, and boost recovery
Dr. Esser also shares transformative stories from his practice, highlighting the profound impact of nutrition on athletic performance and overall health.
Join us for this enlightening discussion on how a plant-based diet can help you achieve peak health and performance.
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Date: June 27-30
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. A huge amount of the injuries that we experience are related to a combination of mistakes that we're making in our nutrition as well as perhaps in our training, our performance, etc. |
| 0:14.8 | So let's say for example you get a small little tiny rotator cuff tear and now you're |
| 0:19.5 | having some shoulder pain. Well instead of just masking the inflammation with some anti-inflammatory, if the individual ate a healthy program, |
| 0:27.3 | more fruits, more vegetables, dilating blood vessels, improving blood flow, |
| 0:31.2 | and activating some of their stem cells, as the studies now show, they're more |
| 0:34.8 | likely to have a good healing event. |
| 0:37.0 | You know, it's kind of crazy, but people, for example, have elevated cholesterol, have higher |
| 0:41.0 | rates of rotator cuff hair and Achilles tendon tear along with tendonopodes. |
| 0:45.5 | So this kind of speaks to this powerful, very crucial overlap between the food we're eating |
| 0:50.8 | and our risk of injury. Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the physician's committee. |
| 0:59.0 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck. broadcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 1:02.8 | Hi, I'm the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll, |
| 1:05.6 | raising health IQs, coast to coast, |
| 1:07.6 | and around the world. |
| 1:09.6 | Hi to the exam roomies listening in St. Augustine, Florida, Salinas, California, and Budapest, |
| 1:16.1 | Hungary. Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:22.1 | This is episode 49 of season 7 number 548 overall. And today |
| 1:28.9 | we will be making a stop at the intersection of diet and sports performance. |
| 1:34.8 | But you don't need to be a big time athlete |
| 1:37.5 | in order to benefit from what it is we're going to be talking about today. |
| 1:41.1 | But the focus is on eating to prevent injuries and recovering faster when they do happen. |
| 1:47.2 | We want to take your game to the next level so that you can gain an edge, even if we're just talking about hopping on the |
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