Friday Favorites: Vegetarian Muscle Power, Strength, and Endurance
Randomized controlled trials put plant-based eating to the test for athletic performance.
This is the final video in my 3-part series on vegetarian athletes. In case you missed the other two, here they are: The Gladiator Diet – How Vegetarian Athletes Stack Up ( ) and The First Studies on Vegetarian Athletes ( ).
I was honored to be a scientific consultant for an amazing new documentary about diet and athleticism called The Gamechangers. Check it out at .
If you’re interested in more videos on athletic performance, see:
• Why All Athletes Should Eat Plant-Based Diets ( )
• Do Alkaline Diets Help Athletic Performance? ( )
• Comparing Vegetarian and Vegan Athletic Performance, Endurance, and Strength ( )
• Improving VO2 Max: A Look at Vegetarian and Vegan Athletes ( )
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Thank you for your honesty.
Plant-based diet is anti-inflammatory; therefore, it should provide faster recovery.
but it doesn’t, otherwise the runners on the 1000km race would do better?
I does but there are other factors involved as well like good sleeping.@@conradjohannes3211
@@conradjohannes3211 yeah, I’d like to actually read the paper before commenting on that. I guess the regiment so completely overloads the system with inflammation that it doesn’t matter anymore.
Thought if you eat blueberries 20 mims prior your max effort can go up ~20%
There is a difference, what is normally sold in supermarkets is Vaccinium corymbosum, which has light colored meat and little anthocyanins. And there is wild European Vaccínium myrtíllus, which has intense color inside, and tons of anthocyanins. I buy freeze-dried Vaccínium myrtíllus, and put them into my oats or desserts.
Vegans power I’d say! Because vegetarian are still week eating cheese and milky stuff crap.
Vegetarian isn’t vegan
Thank you for sharing <3
I’ll share my experience. I was almost vegetarian for many years, no meat, fish very occasionally, but eggs and diary daily as well as whey protein shakes (I do exercise a lot, both strenght and endurance). I vent WFPB, because I felt bad with such diet – energy level, tired after food. Also LDL 140. At first I was afraid that I might feel low energy or smth, but what surpriced me how much more energy and endurance I had, also recovery time and it seems that muscles absorb more protein than on vegetarian diet.