Raw Foods that Increase Athletic Performance, By Tri-athlete Brendan Brazier

Kevin: Bren, there are clump of things that I desire to speak about today, but first let's begin with just a small spot of background about you.

Brendan: Sure. I actually got into the nutrition and just trying to accomplish extremum public presentation through nutrition back when I was around 15. That was all Iodine cared about when I was 15. I was getting into path and field and I knew then that I wanted to seek and go a professional athlete. I just really enjoyed running, I enjoyed swimming, biking, all those things. I realized pretty soon into the game that obviously I'll have got to make a batch of training. I got a clasp of some of the top jock preparation programmes and then I also looked at some norm jock preparation programs. What really surprised me was that they hardly differ at all.

And so, then of course of study I wonder, well, what do some jocks Great? And I realized that it had to make with recovery because the quicker you can recover, the faster you improve. I establish that at 80% of recovery have to make with nutrition. So that's what got me going down that road.

Kevin: Wow! So, for recovery even if person is a visible light gymnastic apparatus or a heavy exerciser, what are some of the things that we necessitate to make to acquire ourselves in a top word form and go on to execute at the top level?

Brendan: Well, one of the large things is having high quality nutrient right after a exercise because really a exercise is just a form of stress. You interrupt down your organic structure tissue musculuses and cells, and ligaments, sinews and if you don't give yourself good nutrient to retrace that, then your organic structure have no
choice but to take the nutrient you give it and construct new organic structure tissue.

Eating the high quality good natural plant-based nutrients right after a exercise is going to be the best manner to make that and you remain strong, you better quickly as an jock and you remain healthy as well.

Kevin: So, at the end of races, you travel to so many things and you see people eating jelly doughnuts, pizza pie and there's all this "junk food." What is that doing and what are some of the best nutrients that people can eat after a race for recovery?

Brendan: Yes, it's funny. That's one of the things that looks to be common is after a exercise or a race, people believe that eating debris nutrient is fine. They think, "Well, I've done exercise today." But it's actually, that's the worst clip to eat debris food.

So, for recovery what I started doing was making smoothies, liquid word form of course of study so that really assists velocity digestion. So, I would do my ain smoothie, I'll utilize jambon protein, greens, flax and nuts and then I actually started just having that germinate over the years. It became really good and just really healthy and then I developed it as a product. It came out a few old age ago, but it's something that was born 15 old age ago.

Kevin: Did you detect the difference in your recovery modern times and your consequences when you started to eat some of these different foods?

Brendan: Absolutely, yes. It was very noticeable. You cognize one of the things that I happen interesting with a batch of people now is that they anticipate things to be instant. And we're in that sort of civilization of refined sugar and you cognize if you imbibe a cup of java you experience the energy immediately. And healthy nutrients are not that way. They're not stimulating; they're nourishing, so you don't experience the energy immediately.

But over time, six to eight hebdomads or so, if you've cleaned up your diet, you're really going to begin feeling better and I just promote people to lodge with it.

Kevin: Well, when you exert you're causing a batch of emphasis on the organic structure and you're letting spell of musculus glycogen. What's the correlativity between the musculus animal starch replacing it and the sugars? And why is that not necessary the best thing?

Brendon: Well, definitely you desire to remain away from any sort of refined sugar. Like achromatic flour, for example, takes a batch of energy to dislocation and digest because your organic structure have to construct digestive enzymes to interrupt that down and a healthy organic structure can make that, but it takes work.

So if you're spending all that energy to seek and acquire energy, the amount of energy you're left over with is very low. I used to be under the feeling as most people are that if you eat more than than calories, you'll
have more energy, and it looks logical. But I was getting really tired and I was eating a plant-based diet, but I was eating also peanut butter and breadstuff and things that are very high in calories, but very
low in nutrition. And the organic structure just had to work so difficult to digest those things.

So when Iodine switched to more than natural food, tons of leafy greenness vegetables, tons of fruit, getting saccharide from fruit as opposing to grains, I noticed a immense difference and that was a large point for me.

I believe just the whole gram gram calorie thing is so flawed and that it just doesn't take into business relationship what beginning the calorie is and how difficult your organic structure have to work to digest that and absorb it.

Kevin: Yes. What kind of fruits were you eating that you establish were the best for you?

Brendan: Pretty much any fruit plant well for me, usually banana tree and the smoothies, days of the month and berries. I seek and eat and electrical fuse them as much as possible, so I'll eat a batch of local berries. I like Citrus paradisi a lot. I like apples, oranges. I like some tropical fruits too - mangoes, papayas, dates. Dates are a great beginning of speedy energy.

Kevin: Sure.

Brendan: Really good during long races just to have got a day of the month or even do an energy gel. I'm sure people - a batch of people are familiar with energy colloidal gels that you can take during a long run. And a batch of them, all the commercial 1s as far as I know, are really highly processed and not so healthy, but it's very easy to do your ain and I have got a formula for those in my book. You just take century plant nectar, A couple of dates, blend them together with a spot of lemon and calcium hydroxide juice, grating off lemon and lime, premix them with a small sea salt, and that's a great gel. You just set that in a colloidal gel flask and that's high energy that volition maintain you going strong throughout the race. It savors good. It's refreshing and it's a
really simple solution, of course, 100% natural and natural end process.

Kevin: That's incredible. When you're exercising for even 40 proceedings or maybe even longer, two hours, six hours, what are some of the foods that are depleted and then what are some of the specific things that you can take to convey them back?

Brendan: Well, the organic structure Burns carbohydrate, that it's first pick for fuel. So you desire to do certain you're giving adequate carbohydrate. When a batch of people believe carbohydrate, they believe starchy nutrients like the alimentary paste and rice and bread. I hardly eat any complex carbohydrate. I acquire almost all of my saccharide from fruit, which is simple saccharide and the advantage of that is that the organic structure cannot usage composite saccharide without first converting it into simple carbohydrate, into sugar. So it's one less measure for your body.

And one of the other things that's good for good quality saccharides are pseudograins. Pseudograins are technically seeds. So quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, and wild rice, they're all seeds...

You can do really simple bites from them, even just sprouted quinoa with some alligator pear with a lemon juice and some sea salt, just really apparent simple taste sensation that's really good.

Kevin: You touched on protein there and I believe a batch of people experience that they necessitate to really overdo it on protein. And what makes that make with the organic structure and why is that mightiness not be the best thing to do?

Brendan: Yes, extra protein is very common. It's bad quality protein, what a batch of people eat and drink. Whey protein have been very well marketed and it's the basic of so many athletes. It's unfortunate. It's incredibly acerb forming, so therefore, the body, to maintain the blood neutral for survival's interest will draw Ca from the bones, and Ca is very alkaline. So, over the course of study of a decennary or two, that Pbs to weaker castanets and it's bad for the immune system. It makes redness and
something I learned recently was that, in North United States now, the opportunity of getting osteoporosis is so much greater, and it's happening little and little in life for people.

And that was originally thought that it was because our diet didn't have got adequate calcium. But as it turns out, that's not the case. We're leeching Ca out of our organic structures by eating too many processed acid forming foods. And if we were just to eat more than than than leafy greenness vegetables, more natural foods, basically the less processed the food, the more alkaline it's going to be.

Kevin: When you speak about acid edifice up in the organic structure over. Let's talking about this over a day. Person aftermaths up in the morning. They imbibe a couple of coffee. They exercise. They have got their milk whey protein shingle after. What's going on in their organic structure in footing of acid, I intend how
low is the pH scale actually getting?

Brendan: Yes, it's critical. It's turning people into very, very ill people and it's go a very serious problem. You touched on java too, which I believe is really interesting. What I establish when I was researching this was that emphasis is the root cause of pretty much all jobs and the minor jobs that are the first marks of stress, there come ups a reddish flag. We have got to really, really concentrate on and not seek and stamp down them and handle the symptoms but really be opened to them and cognize how to actually acquire to the root cause of each problem.

For example, when your organic structure acquires stressed, emphasis response impacts the adrenal gland secretory organs and cortisol, the emphasis hormone, travels up and when hydrocortisone is high you actually don't acquire into a deep form of sleep. It's called delta and that's A really deep rejuvenating sleep. That is when your organic structure retrieves and that's critical because if you don't acquire in that word form of sleep, which 95% asset of North Americans don't, we wake up we experience tired and we hunger java and sugar, because java and refined refined sugar are stimulants.

If we make clean up our diet, we can actually assist cut down hydrocortisone levels. Therefore, we will acquire into that deep delta form of slumber and slumber efficiently. And therefore, we'll aftermath up and experience ready to go. And also too if we kip efficiently, we don't necessitate to sleep. People state all the time, "I wish I had an other hr a day," and in a manner you can have got an other hr mundane if the diet is highly raw, plant-based and really emphasize relieving.