A vegan bodybuilding experiment: Joshua Knox at TEDxFremont
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- www.tedxfremont.com A fateful blizzard on a drive to Tahoe led to a conversation about food and nutrition, which inspired bodybuilder Joshua Knox, a Google employee, to go vegan for a week. One week turned into a 1.5 year lifestyle experiment with bodybuilding and diet.
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My sister became vegetarian and then vegan a year later. She's been vegan for about 3-4 years now. The food she eats is AMAZING. Trust me, I loved steak. I loved chicken. But, in comparison to the food she cooks, you might as well be eating fast food. She, like most vegans, do it for mostly health reasons. Most of the meat that is "affordable" in stores is highly processed, their packed with hormones, steroids and fat. My family and I didn't really understand her in the beginning. We rolled our eyes at her, even scoffed at her. We heard what most people heard: You have to have meat for a complete and balanced diet. And what we learned was...you don't. You absolutely do not. She is the healthiest person I know. All it takes it knowing how to do it correctly (which isn't hard), and to just start. Now, I've been learning how to cook a vegan diet. Beans give you complete proteins. Nutritional Yeast tastes and smells like delicious cheese. Coconut milk is DELICIOUS in Mac n' cheese instead of regular dairy milk. I've been starting to just substitute ingredients first, and it's been great. (:
SO TELL ME MY MACRO SPLIT FOR AN OPTIMUM CUT ON A COMPLETE PLANT BASED DIET
People go on a whole foods plant based diet for health reasons.
You go vegan for the animals. So you can quit a whole foods diet but you never quit being vegan, it's a moral stance. It's extending a right to life to animals without exploitation.
Go vegan for animals, go vegan for the earth. that’s all there is to it 🌎
Vegans do it for the animals. If you are doing it for health, you are plant based.
This is great, your sister is awesome!!!😄. Most people actually go vegan for moral and ethical reason though, the health benefits are the bonus that comes along with a choice to be kind to Gods innocent creatures 🕊
I have been a strict vegan for 3 years and I haven't been sick or even had a cold for the last this year. Just eat enough
Wow that’s amazing eat enough how do you mean. Thanks
Same.. haven't been sick since I turned to a plant based diet. It's amazing how having a cold was "common" but now not having a cold is something weird to me haha
@@christianmoose at last nature is the best thing we have🥺❤️❤️
Its been 9 years you probably must be dead by now
i did a 30 day challenge,at first i was counting days all the time, now i dont, it changed my lifestyle. i just dont want myself to eat meat again, i would crave for deli chicken sometimes when i am hungry, but i would fight the thought..i am proud of myself by eating clean now.
Eating clean? You do realize that means washing your food? In other words there is nothing special about it.
gosh, ur crazy,it is u who dont understand!!!!!let me educate u then, eat clean means no white sugar,no processed food,no white flour,no chemically-enhanced foods, no artificial ingredients,so ur body is clean,no junk!
sophia smith lol don't mind david. he's trolling!
sophia smith I get what you mean. I use healty lifestyle for living. Not only that I live a healty life, but I earn money living it. In other words what I eat is my number one priotiry. Eating clean is not a term. Eating organic, non procesed food is. Now what you eat depends on a sport you do. Not everyone requers the same amount of macronutrients. For example I eat 40% carbs 40% proteins and 20% fat. My carbs are mainly fruits when I need a quick energy boost and the rest is not white bread, but whole grains for example. My proteins are all top quialty. Poultry meat, fish, eggs, soy beans, any kind of beans, kale... And for fat I use fish oil also known as omega 3 there are more healty oils, but I hope you get the points. It's called eating healty, not eating clean.
Hi sophia just wondering what challenge you did. Was it the 30day veganeasy one?
It's official guys! I am going vegan.
Hey bro good luck! I coming on 10 yrs now feel amazing, do Kenta if research and wish u well on your journey!
Bad idea...
Follow up?
are you still vegan? @Zoltan
@@randyhollier Why? It’s supported by every Dietetic association in the world
Of late I've been thinking of going Vegan. Been researching and all the evidence suggests health risks in meat eating. I come from a family where even though we eat meat, it's still only 1-2 times a week unlike western cultures who eat meat regularly.
And what really struck me was that my mom's side of the family are all meat eaters and have diabetes, high cholesterol, stress, high blood pressure, etc. My dad's side of the family are all completely vegetarian and no one has any diseases and are absolutely healthy. My grandfather is 93 with no ailments.
It's been right in front of my eyes all these years and I had failed to realise it.
Pradhyumna Gupta good luck
Do it :-)
+Pradhyumna Gupta My grandparents are 104 and 98 respectively, still taking their grand grand children to school and all their life they have been meat eaters and no diseases whatsoever or any bad health or mental disorder.
Perhaps its just something different and not meat or veg.
+Pradhyumna Gupta Could also be that your family just has some really good genes for growing old. Unprocessed meat on it's own usually isn't the culprit, but people who go/are vegan also tend to smoke less, drink less, and are more in shape. Those factors do play a major role
I agree that many factors affect our lives. I also believe that as long as we do not abuse what we eat drink consume we are capable of healthy and lengthy lives.
Genes also play role, some people are less healthy therefore veg may apply to them. Plenty of factors...
Its best to study for yourself and know what your body needs most.
People at the gym are often amazed when they find out I don't eat meat. I've found I put on muscle just fine. I do supplement rice and pea protein though....
It's a lot harder I guess, but you can find proteins in vegetables. Lot's off them, it's just that their amino acids are not as good, but they are enough. When your lifestyle is vegan, then I believe its not as hard. But from my curent perspective, it does seem hard to eat enough proteins using only vegan product, but not impossible. Keep it up! :)
everyone who body builds drink protein shakes
@@Monikainlove You more people going of protein shakes only eating naturally, some body builders ive watched for the couple of months. And they doing just fine
Amazing how offensive veganism is to some people.
Not the diet, what I find offensive is how they name call and seem to hate people that choose to eat meat.
@@glennbishopbishthemagish
When you say that you’re saying that all vegans are like that. I know for a fact that not all meat eaters are the same and for that reason I don’t name call and I don’t hate. There are idiots in all groups but very few groups are populated by exclusively by idiots.
@@glennbishopbishthemagish Is your reaction to someone telling you they are a list of excuses why you aren't?
@@glennbishopbishthemagish I wouldn't make fun of anyone that wasn't vegan, it would just make being vegan appear in a negative light. Do you!
Hasn’t changed much in 6 years unfortunately. Luckily there are so many more options these days
As a vegan bodybuilder myself, I must say this wasa pretty good video!
What do you eat on a regular basis as a meal. I recently started going back to a gym, and wondering which vegan food have protein.
course you are
Great channel!!!
How long have you been vegan
@@joshuasmith7369 hey how is it going? you didn't ask me, but I would say grains, legumes, fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds, B12. that's all you need
Being an 18 year old argentine vegan I know the struggle of dealing with social pressure
Annie Garcia Soy un cordobes vegano y algunos parientes y amigos lo ven con curiosidad otros son escépticos, Argentina y Uruguay quisas los peores paises del mundo para ser vegano
Marcos Battista Sisi, totalmente. Aunque de a poco la gente se va acostumbrando al veganismo. Hay que tener paciencia!
Annie Garcia En Colombia es igual, hace poco tuve una pelea con unos amigos por ese tema.
Annie Garcia Kudos to you for sticking with it! :)
Annie Garcia do you still have social pressure?
Ex big carnivore. 4 years vegan and it has been one of the best choices I've made
How's it going, are you still vegan.
@@Chris-kr7gg Still vegan and loving it. Healthy and strong. I look way younger than I actually am.
@@redplayer89 what's your main food, do you eat legumes and grains etc, vegtables and fruit.
@@Chris-kr7gg I love eating tofu and rice. I also eat lentils, beans, veggies, fruits, nuts. Not hard getting your protein and calorie intake on a vegan diet. So much to eat. Replace meats with beans, lentils, and tofu for protein. Oatmeal also has a lot of protein. I make this huge veggie protein smoothie and I add all kinds of veggies, fruits, flax seeds, chia seeds, and a scoop of protein powder.
@@redplayer89 what's your take on phytic acid in beans, veg etc and the supposed inability to be an anti nutrient.
It's hard to believe the rude, hateful, glaringly untrue comments in here saying Joshua looks terrible, etc., implying he should still be 35 pounds heavier when he's big and well built, muscular. But then his total turnaround and great health would be considered a "threat" by people in certain industries, so such comments need to be disregarded by anyone looking for the truth.
Exactly, industry types are running scared, when there really is no reason, as those farms with cows and all slaughter houses workers will have to be replaced with a plant based culture . I'ts not rocket science, and everyone will be healthier, our planets warming will be reduced along with going green and we'll save countless animals from suffering, than no human would ever wish on any fellow human.
@@MindsetsShift Speaking of something not needing mentioning. Apparently 95 people liked what I wrote 7 years ago.
@Alvin da champion Time flies, and the older you get the faster it goes.
I went Vegan similar to "raw till 4" from what I would have considered a healthier western diet around christmas time. I ate fish, lean meat, eggs and dairy as well as vegetables. And basically completely changed my diet over about 2 weeks to plant based foods only.
I went from 100kg to 84KG in 4 months, without even really trying to lose weight. I am now between 82-83kg which is basically a perfect healthy weight for my height, Ideal BMI.
I have more energy
I'm starting to exercise more because I have more energy to burn.
I don't feel like I've lost any strength at all.
I would actually get puffed and light headed walking up hill. My legs would get tired after 20min of brisk walking. Now I actually have to run to get puffed and I never get tired from walking, can literally walk for hours and much faster than I used to.
I sleep better! Sleep is so important that alone has changed my life!
I don't get hungry like I used to, the food I eat is more satisfying.
My Mind is functioning better, I think faster/sharper and my moods are more balanced, I'm more relaxed.
I am starting to welcome back my 6 pack I have not seen in about 8 years.
Just try and tell me the vegan diet doesn't work!
Observations:
It takes more than 30 days, results may vary and others wont turn around like I have. If you have been eating crap for years don't expect it to turn around in a week or two. Your body is an ecosystem and a big change like going vegan will require a lot of time for the ecosystem to adjust. This is a change that really is a long term investment.
Don't weigh yourself every day and freakout if you gain a kilo, if your prone to freaking out about that sort of thing throw your scales away.
Expect toilet visits to get interesting, go up and down but get better over time, just hang in there. Don't eat raw fruit and cooked vegetables at the same time doing so can complicate toilet visits. Make sure the fruit you eat is ripe!
Cut salt right out, you don't need it and its bad for you full stop. After a while you simply wont miss it and wonder why you ever used it.
Keep hydrated.
Get educated, learning that eggs and dairy and basically poison for the human body really helped motivate me to change. From understanding comes motivation. A book called The China Study got me started.
The china study book is a bit of a fraud, google Denise Minger,
don't know why you think salt is 'bad for you full stop' it's an essential nutrient, that animals will risk their lives for.
eggs and dairy don't seem likely to be a poison, unless you eat them as icecream, a recent epidemiological study correlated dairy with longer lifespan
Simon Long Of course there are people that want to and are trying to discredit The China Study, If you read it you will understand why. The ideas in the book criticize and threaten billion dollar industries.
You can get enough sodium without having to sprinkle every meal with it. I've never heard of a salt free vegan that had a sodium deficiency!
Eggs and dairy are poison. Eggs are a fast tract to heart disease and stroke, Dairy is potentially a fast track to everything from obesity, and diabetes to cancer.
OF course there is positive nutritional information around about Eggs and Dairy. Their are billions of dollars behind these products and they sponsor studies and sponsor health & diet regulators.
It really comes down to of you want to believe what the dairy industries with billions of dollars at sake want you to know about Dairy or if you believe independent information from people with no other interest other than a passion for nutrition and finding the truth.
That and the fact that people tend to find any excuse to keep eating how they have their whole life and ignore anything the suggests it's wrong or that they should change even if it could save their life or just improve the quality of their life.
nutritionfacts.org great information about eggs, dairy and other foods.
Simon Long Unfortunately, table salt usually has added compounds but even so, people tend to use way too much of it. Recently, I stopped using it and have introduced instead small bits of seaweed into my diet, primarily for the iodine. There is already plenty of sodium that occurs in the plants we eat. There is absolutely no need for table salt, it just forces your kidneys to work that much harder. As far as dairy, it's been scientifically proven to grow cancer cells. But, hey, go on believing the propaganda machine funded by the dairy industry. But don't forget that many of the industry watch dog agencies now allow members of industry to sit on their boards and push their agendas on the public. They fund all kinds of biased studies in their favor and not in your health's favor.
vulturnuszan what I believe is a common mistake is that people eat wrongly and they get problems, because nobody, unless you are a nutritionist, or an athlete, has a real cultureon the subject food.
Then they take a radical decision, and jump on the vegan wagon, and since they eat way less calories, they drop weight and say "this is the right thing to do, look at what this did for me".
If they were not overeating in the first place, they would not be like they were.
Plus there are plenty of people that feel that there is this giant conspiracy of industries to sell their food, so they push it, and there a re a lot of people with an agenda of pushing it.
but is really simple: our body evolved to to eat both vegetables and animals, point, if not, we would not have even possibility to digest a particular food.
anyone has the right to adopt any lifestyle he/she wants, until he/she, damages the other person.
One must always understand the difference between use and abuse, before pointing fingers to something and label it as "dangerous".
we can even die for abusing water: if we drink too much we die, but you cannot say thaty water is bad right? it is bad if you drink too much,of it, not if you drink, same goes vith veggies and meats.
Frank Duse Yeah, that's all well and good, the whole moderation thing but science says otherwise. And, it proved the case for me, too, hence why on a vegan diet (more calories than before), I got rid of all my health issues while on a meat-based and dairy-based diet. While you believe you can bend the laws of nature, it's only a matter of time. How old are you?
I've been Vegan for 2 weeks and I'm loving it so far!
How has it been now? :D
@@manuelmoreira8575 Still going...hopefully for life.
@@armaanpremjee146 do you take b12 supplement?
@@DonkeyFrogI don't. I do blood work and everything is normal. Even my protein levels.
@@armaanpremjee146 oh you will need to supplement b12, omega 3 algae, and replace normal salt with iodised salt.
11 years ago I started a challenge: 14 days vegan. So far, there has been no reason to stop the challenge. I have never felt better.
this video is too short. I wish i knew more about his results. I just started partaking in a vegan diet cutting meat and dairy out, not 100% but i'd say 90%. Im noticing some positive changes.
like what?
Nice hope it goes well
+EllisEvolvedProductions. My main concern is that you seem to have a poor understanding of our language. "Vegan" means "vegan", yet you, somehow, are able to reduce that word to a "percentage" of animal intake. Strange days indeed. Good luck and thanks for sharing.
+EllisEvolvedProductions Don't forget to cut out eggs too! But it's not about cutting out, it's about what you can include in your new diet, that's the beauty of veganism, you begin to discover the real foods you were missing out. It's also important to replace all the meat with protein rich food such as beans, lentils, peas and other nutrient rich foods such as greens (kale, swisschard, collard green, etc).
Here's an exhaustive list of all plant based food category: Fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes (beans, peas), nuts and seed.
ameagher2 thanks for your warm heart opinion, but how about you take your arrogance and pseudo-intelligence and kindly....go fuck yourself ;-) Thanks Felica
I am living walking proof that you can gain muscle on a vegan diet. #GoVegan 💪🏾
How long have you been vegan
@@Fernando-jy6gq I eat about 6-8 eggs a day for protein.
Me too, My body was bad when I was eating meat and carnivore diet including dairy. I switched to vegan and increased beans and peas for muscle building and it works. It’s been 4 months and I started to see changes, it’s definitely possible to build muscle on vegan diet. Everyone has their choice and hope everyone progresses in life.
I saved a couple animals this week, and I feel good about it.
good job sean! I hope you keep going that way, I'm very proud of you👏
Sean You didnt save shit. The animals that you would have eaten where still killed and someone else bought that meat.
That's terrible logic Adrian, it's about supply and demand.. The less demand for meat, the less animals will be killed. It's really as simple as that.
or more waste !!!
Yay keep it up!!
Great job, I followed a very similiar path. In 6 months I went from 217 to 160 and more importantly gained back my life/health
Well done Joshua! The human body is designed to stay strong on a plant based diet in order to be free of chronic diseases. It is so inspiring to see a vegan bodybuilder.
Being vegan is a movement it is not just about getting away from meat for health reason, it is also about caring for life, empathy, rational thinking, taking responsibility for environment. Being vegan results in 360 change in perspective about life. A thought experiment for everyone, what happens if lets say middle east becomes vegan.
Do you think veganism does not pollute the environment? 😂
This is so inspiring! I love it when people who don't fit the stereotypes about vegans step up and say it how it really is! All kinds of people go vegan for all kinds of reasons!
Brilliant, if he spoke about his journey for two hours I would have been glued to the screen.
I'm more interested in the other aspects of being vegan. Like longevity, being active past 80 without health complications and never getting sick and paying any doctor a nickel. There's much more to it than just getting big.
***** I think he is offering an unusual side to being vegan which allows au to have big gains. But of course, what you say is valid. Nevertheless, it's great because he addresses the bodybuilding community.
I cured myself of cancer 40 years ago with vegan diet. I am now 72 and in great health. I still get comments about how fit i look. I rarely eat meat and no dairy. I know i do not need meat
@@herbbowler2461 wow, can you explain more, I want to atherosclerosis.
@@Chris-kr7gg
The most common cause of arteriosclerosis is a lack of vitamin C.
Without enough C we don't make or metabolize cologne which is an elastic protein.
Cologne allows connective tissue stretch and rebound without damage. Without enough vitamin C and cologne the arteries are damaged from stretching with every heartbeat.
As a result of the bodies attempt to heal the damage there is scar tissue. LDL sticks to that scar tissue and builds up.
This is hardening and narrowing of the arteries.
Eat your fruits and veggies
@@herbbowler2461 what about reversing it ?
3 years Vegan, coming from huge meat/dairy diet.
Skin cleared up, no more sharp unexplained pains(from lactose intolerance), tons more energy, blood pressure down to healthy levels, etc, etc... I could keep going....best decision I've ever made.
Keep inspiring people with this awesome message!!
Gorgeous; well spoken, powerful and positive message. I loved this.
I've been vegan for 2 minutes and im loving it
Are you still vegan
I am also a vegan bodybuilder.
I am making more gains with a plant based diet.
Meats definately hold you back from absorbing important nutrients and proteins
Colonel Crush Jon Venus, Brian turner!!
rofl :D ..meats ARE the proteins ... just the opposite, plants are full of chemicals (oxalates, goitrogens, phytotoxins..) which inhibit nutrient & mineral absorption from any foods .. you can get really seriously sick (without supplementation)by eating only plant based diet...
please explain why the longest living population of scientifically studied people in the modern world are VEGAN then???
pitikuss You should eat whatever is the lowest in the food web, and that is producers which are basically plants. Animals and their products are high in the food web so they are polluted
pitikuss You should eat whatever is the lowest in the food web, and that is producers which are basically plants. Animals and their products are high in the food web so they are polluted
Okay going vegan. Gotta learn about food :O
I'm in my early 60's. For moral reasons I became a vegetarian in the mid 90's. I'm ashamed that it took me so long but I finally became a vegan 6 years ago again for moral reasons. When I first became a vegetarian, I wondered what effect this would have on my health because of the misinformation of the nutritional needs to live a healthy life. I had family and friends telling me I would get weak and sick. I was overweight and ended up losing weight. I felt better and had more energy. Fast forward to 6 years ago and I wondered again if the lack of dairy in my diet would possibly affect me in a negative way. I had noticed some mild arthritis set in in my 50's. I didn't expect this but about 4 months after becoming a vegan the arthritis completely went away and at my last yearly physical my doctor looked at my blood work results and just said "whatever your doing just keep doing it".
Does your diet include grains pulses legumes.
wow, my cholesterol dropped to 177. I got a ways to go. But great being under 200, never could get under 200 before. Also lost more than 20 lbs. This guy was so lucky to have his friend suggest the issue. Good story.
215 - 185 = 35 God Bless America!
its an old video but i see a lot of ppl making a big deal about vegan diet. most of the east asians are vegans and are all healthy and strong. vegan diet has all the macros necessary for body building.
Um, most East Asians are certainly not vegan.
Anthony Walker They do eat much less meat than we do (USA) but yeah, not vegan for sure.
Anthony Walker They surely eat almost every animal under the sun but the percentage of their diet, weight wise or calorie wise made up of meat is very low.
No meat eating daily, at most once a week.
Yeah I have to disagree here. I've been to many asian countries and while here in the US we eat mainly beef, chicken and pork for meat, they eat many many different kinds of animals. They eat a lot of seafood too. In the Philippines pork is a daily staple. Maybe they eat less meat, but a lonng way from vegetarians and especially vegan!
DL_000 #chinastudy
I totally got what you were saying to me in email! I understand the concept of self-interest as ego but I choose to believe that in order for anything to mean anything in the real world, we must base our actions on how we wish the world to be. Otherwise we're just living in our own heads ergo creating a philosophical world that only we can live in.
“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”
― Ann Wigmore
Eating Vegan takes out all the "poison" in your food. It's the only way to be truly healthy, to heal the body from the inside out and to give peace to your mind.
Lauren Vingilis Loved the quote , sounds really inspiring and makes for a good other reason to make me even more inclined towards a vegan lifestyle.
Lauren Vingilis Vegans can still eat sugar, refined and processed carbs, alcohol, nicotine, high fructose corn syrup...so veganism by itself doesn't do much to remove poisons at all.
I have never experienced a sense of health and well being like the one I feel now that I'm vegan. :)
Certain of my replies to a long discussion seem to get deleted, likely by the thread starter, so I'll state my case here:
Someone ranted at me, "it's a testimony for MEAT!" (referring to Josh Knox's being raised on meat as opposed to his new vegan diet) referring to his muscularity. So I linked vegetarian & vegan (Gracie Gold) Olympic athletes and the commenter dismissed it because most may eat dairy & eggs. But I thought "MEAT" was required for athletic strength, in his view.
GreatVeganAthletes is another site showing pages of fantastic athletes, which will likely also be dismissed for a variety of invented reasons by angry meat advocates. Oh well...
I was told to earn respect if I want it, from a manipulative, fuming misogynist who seems to believe he's above getting old or that it's only a crime for women. (Bad or absent mother, turned him against females?) "Respect" from such a person is severe disrespect. So I'll decline that offer to earn it from him. I get respect from good people whom I respect.
There, I feel better now :)
Giving up meat is the best decision I've ever made!!!
Bill Pearl, one of the greatest bodybuilders ever was (and is at age 82) a vegetarian. Yes, you can be a bodybuilder and be a vegan, it just takes more effort to get your complete proteins. At 65 years old (and being stronger than most weight trained 25 year olds) I eat about a 50% vegan diet, but I just haven't given up meat, congrats to you.
This man is really inspirational. Thank you for this excellent post.
I too GAINED strength on a vegan diet. People look at me a little funny when I tell them my muscle mass and endurance improved sans all animal products in my diet; but it's true.
The predators, particularly Lions are called the "kings of the Nature". Yet, if you look at the wild live in Africa, you'll see how shamefully they run away from the Elephans, Girafas, Hyppos and even from Buffalos. These are herbivorous rather than predators who are really the mountains of muscles.
Lions run away "shamefully"? lol I've seen lions take down buffalo and giraffes. Elephants and hippos? They are just significantly larger animals regardless of their diets. What an odd comparison to make.
Hey run away because they're smart enough not to get trampled or torn to shreds. What would YOU do if a hippo was chasing you
Your comment has no logic. Elephant makes proteins and fats from vegetables, lion eats others who make protein from vegetables. There is no connection between size or whatever. Different animals, different species, different adaptations. Looks like you can find logical connection between an airplane and a worm...
This made me think about vegan gains lol
+R Emuna except V gains is counter productive. We have to add more love, help and vegies to this world, not criticism, shame and fight. Those lasts are typical of carnists.
aattitude Dreaming is free, don't stop yours man ;)
+aattitude Ya, he's a bit douchy, and thats fairly off putting to alot of people. Now go look at Jon Venus who has a completely different approach, infact he's the guy that inspired me to make the change from just vegitirian that I had been doing. I mean he's just so much nicer and non condensending, plus he's got a body that really shows his body building, gains ok he looks like he's in a good shape but he's not impressive looking either.
+AtlantisArch But... by saying that... aren't you criticizing vegan gains? His videos are well researched and he mainly attacks people who are selling bullshit fitness supplements or programs so its not like he is a bad person. He made me go vegan.
George Georgeman Criticism is a way to strengthen the target. Basic rebound effect. Just ignore what you want to fight and build a better alternative to attrack people in it rather than following the other way.
(and yeah, guys making video criticising VGain are indeed making him stronger. "whatever good or bad things are people telling about you, the most important is that they are speaking about you")
Very inspirational!! All non-believers you need to educate yourselves and look forward to a brighter, healthier future!!
Vegetarinism is the key to fighting cancer and to see an Vegetarian bodybuilder is amazing.
Well, I'm convinced by all vegan arguments, but cancer is a very complicated and difficult subjet. We shouldn't be so positive on this point, I think...
Vegan diet avoid animal suffering, and it is worthwhile.
"Not only plant-based, but then maybe mostly vegetarian" so whey protein and eggs. Title needs editing
Seems like it was the other way around. Still an improvement
Great talk !!! If you go vegan you change so many things as well - you are saving the lives of many animals - who are tortured to death, and you also are going green !!! Try it out.. i am !!!
+Vegans Are Monkeys so what.
+Vegans Are Monkeys so what.
yeah its an interesting dilemma. usually people who are into bodybuilding are very body-proud and EXTREMELY image-conscious. the reason they get into bodybuilding in the first place is not because they are health conscious, but because they simply want to have big muscles (regardless of how strong they actually are, interestingly actual strength seems to be completely secondary)- and very often they could not care less how they get them (look at the popularity of steroids). that weight drop he talked about when going to a vegan diet will certainly be enough to turn off most if not all of the ego-driven male gym-goers that i have ever met.
cufflink44 It isn't impossible but it is much harder. If you eat a cup of lentils you may get 15 grams of bio-available protein versus a serving of chicken with about 35-40 grams of bio-available protein (both dependent upon how it is cooked). This means to get 0.8 grams per pound of weight you will have to consume more food as a vegan to get the protein (Ie: 160 g protein for 200 pound person roughly). It takes more food combining to get proper amino acids and high quality supplements. If you think about it you would have to eat 10 cups of lentils or kidney beans a day for that protein versus 4-5 servings of chicken (not well balanced but a decent analogy). A source if you are interested veganbodybuilding.com
One issue I have with the supplements is if I have a Vega Sport Performance at 25 grams of protein then if I have 2 a day it is 50 grams but there are only 23 servings in the container. So you get about 11 days of protein for $45 so about $100 a month if you do one scoop on your off day. However, in the whey supplements you get 40 servings or more and about 20-30 grams on average of whey isolate for post workout. You can make one scoop post workout last a bit over a month and one scoop on off days. More than likely your food sources will be higher in protein if you do whey (also there is correlation though to kidney stress and high protein). Point is that is is easier and cheaper to hit that 160 gram of protein mark.
To live that same person only needs about 65 grams a day but to build muscle you require more. Neither of these scenarios considered pre-workout supplements and BCAs which add another $80 a month roughly...but for a vegan it adds $100-$120 a month because the pre-workout supplements are in smaller servings per container typically.
But if you are a vegan and don't mind $200 a month in supplements for vegan supplements and enjoy cooking then you can easily achieve a 16-18 inch arm naturally. With a lot of work you might get to 20 inches. I never seen a vegan yet with over 20 inch arms that was a vegan all the way. I am a vegan and I am in the 16-18 inch range but looking to get to 20 since I just recovered from a back injury and just hit the gym again 2 months ago from a 1 year break with nothing but interval cardio training and light resistant training. Even with my injury I can out lift many of my meat eating friends. Mind have you though I was a pescatarian before I had my back injury and was at 20 inch arms. I couldn't walk for 6 months and lost over 40 pounds of muscle in the year. I did the interval training for about a year but never picked up weights until 2 months ago but now I am at the same weight on lifting (bench press, barbell curl, etc) as I used to be when I ate fish but the gains are not like they use to be now that I am vegan. However, even though I am smaller now I do feel healthier.
cufflink44 try feeding your dog on it before you try it on yourself
Amazing. It is the way to go... Work Hard, Eat Good Food and Live Happy. The transformation can be unbelievable if one eats the right clean version of food that's good for one's body and build an amazing body naturally.
My only critique is that you really don't need a week to see the huge difference, it's literally within 24 hours and the results just keep increasing the longer you sustain this diet. Anyone thinking about trying it just give it at least one day and you will not look back
Being vegan doesn't necessarily have ANYTHING to do with the moral and ethical stance of not wanting to kill and enslave animals. I am continuously baffled by the lack of vegans who don't give a fuck about animals, strangely they all seem to care for animals uniformly. They shouldn't have to care about animals to be vegan! The truth is; there are so many different reasons for why you would want to become a vegan - all of which have nothing to do with the animals at all! Let me list just a few:
1. Health - Eliminate chances of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, strokes, heart disease and lower chances of many types of cancer like colon cancer and breast cancer etc. Saturated fats and cholesterol is ONLY found in animal products. Improve your cardiovascular ability and feel more alive and energized because your stomach won't have to spend so much energy trying to digest all of that acidic meat. And poop better too, don't spend so much time squeezing one out on the toilet.
2. Appearance - You will loose excess fat for sure (Unless you just drink soda and eat potato chips since that's technically vegan), your skin will start look to better and more clear, acne will most likely disappear or at least diminish a lot.
3. The environment - The live stock industry is responsible for more greenhouse gasses being released into the atmosphere than all forms of transportation combined. And forests are being chopped down to make room for the cattle so that we can kill them and eat them later.
4. You are against unnecessary starvation among humans - All of the grains used to feed livestock is taken from poor places like in Africa where the farmers are forced to sell their grains to western/richer countries so that we can have a juicy steak, meanwhile those farmers and their children starve to death.
So even if you honestly don't give a flying fuck about the fact that more than 150 billion animals are slaughtered unnecessarily for human consumption every year and you don't consider animals to have any worth and you don't think twice about paying someone to kill them for you to eat, there are still many reasons for why you would want to become vegan. For your health, for your looks and for the planet.
Geez Strangepete, I have seen the same comment from you VERBATIM on several different videos. I guess YT allows you to spam the same comment over and over, but really man, I know it's easier to do that, but how about some ACTUAL comments from you other than copy and pasting over and over.
ClickToPreview Yeah I know, I took the time to write that pretty long comment and I found like 10 vegan videos and copy pasted it to them hoping more people would read my sentiment that way :) Sorry for the annoyance.
ClickToPreview Cool user name!
hmmm maybe there's a correlation between caring for yourself and for animals?? nah, that just makes too much sense
That's a win of a comment! :-)
When someone calls themselves a "natural" bodybuilder, does that mean they restrict the usage of steroids and supplements or just steroids?
Jesse Kim roids
*whew*. doesn't matter I dont do bodybuilding lol
Creatine is steroids so as long as ur not taking that you're good
christian kim you trolling? If not, read some research articles
Not sure if u got ur awnser but no steroids
Carl Lewis and Mike Tyson amongst others are vegan athletes... but yeah it's truely impossible to be vegan and strong. Some people...
so is your mom
In grade school, I was the smallest kid by weight, yet also the strongest and fastest; living on my Cherokee, traditional foods of Hominy (corn), Beans & Squash.
In 1975, I was talked into switching to the Paleo Diet, "to get bigger & stronger"; ten months ago, at age 50, I almost died from Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, Type II Diabetes, Gout and Prostate Issues.
I switched to VEGAN (no salt, no oil) and have completely reversed or cured ALL of the above Diseases and Issues
Vegan 8 years here. Never felt better, and stronger than ever
Lol some of the comments here mind numbingly stupid just shows how little people know about nutrition and plant based diets ive been vegan gor 8 months and the feel you have when your clean is enough to never want to ho back go vegan or go home
Well, Wobbler. I would have to disagree that harsher climate humans represent how most humans throughout history have lived. Most individuals throughout the paleolithic lived in Refugium regions, areas of temperate climate far away from the Cold. For example, Central Spain and southern France was a lusher area and generally a temperate forested area. Likewise, the Middle east during this time was warm, wet and lush. Even today, the majority of humanity lives in warm areas. The same areas where plant foods would generally be plentiful.
Likewise, we spent the majority of our evolution in Africa. We are all fundamentally african in origin and therefore have a warm weather heritage. What foods are common in Africa? modern hunter gatherers and societies in Africa still survive off A lot of Tubers, Wild grains (When crops fail ,they are still widely used) Vegetables, fruits, and game.
joseph jacovino
Hi Joseph, the harsher climate thing was your idea but you just contradicted it. My point was that before agriculture, people relied on animal fats and some protein for fuel as natural carbohydrates were not in abundance apart from some very short seasonal periods. The carbs that were available would have been treasured because they would not have been available all year round. If humans had to rely solely on carbohydrates from plants we would all be dead without food for a couple of days. I liked how you emphasised Vegetables and Wild grains etc, but game? how about Animal Flesh. What was your point again?
Again, i disagree here. I'm arguing that Carbs were a reliable source of energy in many climates. Granted they may not have been Cereal grains, but many wild foods are really exciting multi use foods, such as Sea kale. The key, in my opinion is that these groups did not rely on any one food, and would often move from resource to resource. Certain foods, such as Wild wheat, Acorns, Pulses seemed to be extremely reliable in the historical record, and started to be stockpiled in Paleolithic "Silos" in these early camp sites in the Middle east. One in theory is actually able to gather enough wild wheat by hand in several weeks to feed a family for a year, and this is today.
I can't disagree that people have always found nutrition in many varied forms but this does nothing to establish that these people that collected Acorns would have avoided animal products if presented with the opportunity. There is valuable nutrition in some animal products and to deny this is will full ignorance. But we are still free to choose what we eat, so I wish you well in whatever your choices are.
Yeah, i agree. Meat was Definitely on the menu, and one cannot contest this. I suppose i big beef with some Paleo authors is their over emphasis on meat consumption. Certainly some groups ate more meat than others. Meat would provide something that is generally rare in plants- heavy stores of fat. In a struggle for survival i feel our ancestors wouldn't have minded getting a little extra body fat.
I became vegetarian after watching Paul McCartney's " If Slaughterhouses had Glass Walls" last year.
in that Case You are Fool, My Sir !
What an amazing inspirational, honest, objective speech. Congratulations!
I don't expect everyone to know nutrition the way we do. This is why nutritionists are employed.
"Not only plant-based, but then maybe mostly vegetarian" ?
Wut? 3:38 IN
+Fennec Probably shifting back and forward between plant-based (vegan) and vegetarian.
Noticed that to. What does he mean?
+Jesus Hitler I thought animal based foods of any kind where bad. Does not eating meat make you a more healthy eater?
+Fennec I wonder if he meant "not only plant-based, but mostly vegan," referring more to the rest of the vegan ethic.
+Jesus Hitler Fish can be really high in cholesterol, sometimes more so than red meat. And the protien from fish still makes our blood acidic.
TLDR: Fish isn't that healthy.
I do know 2 vegan bodybuilders on vegan diet for 2 years now (husband and wife) they train as hard as before, but they are indeed fatigued easily, and lost muscle mass, in noticeable amount.
This episode says: yoi can build your body, but not as well as with noble proteind and EME iron.
Dude, there are several professional body builders who are pure vegans and quite successful but they know what they're doing. It seems your friends need some mentoring.
1too3fore can you gimme some names? Plus, are they Insuline, HGH and Testosterone supplementation Free?
Frank Duse try greatveganathletes dot com for a list of some names...
+1too3fore thank you.
Seen the page: I'll go with the first pages as an example.
Baboumian: strongman of modest level, never qualified for any major strongman competition, steroid user.
Jim Morris: I met the guy, sweet human being, good tesults in his senior co petition class, uses steroids.
Carl Lewis: legendary, but when he was active and built his name he was not even vegetarian, no contest.
So far two athletes who are not and never were top level being Vegan, and one that was not vegan when he was at the top.
Mac Danzig was top level before he retired, but not being Vegan.
The only top level that remained vegan during his top level period I see in the next pages, is Vlad Ixel.
So far being vegan gave no real edge if that was the purpose, in fact if there was not "something else"involved in the training routine" results would have been even less that decent.
Frank Duse You should give this feedback to the owner of the web page.
they nedded to show him flexin at the beginning because he doesnt look that good with clothes on
100% right. Everything involved in modern day food production on a large scale needs to be over-hauled. The planning has even already been done. All we need to do is implement it. But too many greedy companies, "ranchers", "farmers" and other people out there holding it back from happening.
Evolution is not limited to physiology.
Our bodies may not have changed much, but we increased our intelligence, knowledge, and moral values by leaps and bounds. That's evolution.
Veganism is the logical response to the current realities. It's goal is to create a more compassionate world, and for us to evolve into higher beings.
I wonder if cutting out the whole grains in his diet had an effect on his health as opposed to cutting out meat?
Using the historical record of human consumption of animals in order to emphasize the importance of animal fats or proteins in current and future human diet is erroneous for several reasons.
Our ancestors did not live as long as we do so many never got to see the effects of long-term animal consumption on the body.
They may have also faced situations where survival necessitated animal consumption or they would have faced starvation.
May God bless our ancestors for without them we would not be.
Going forward, we will witness the next major step in the evolution of our planet when humans begin to treat animals with more compassion.
A significant segment of our ancestors lived well into their elderly years. You need to stop using average life expectancy statistics to bolster the vegan argument. Once 15, the AVERAGE life expectancy of Paleo man was 54. And that was without the benefit of modern medicine and knowledge of hygiene.
Primal Vegan
Many of the centenarians are/were omnivorous...
***** ALL of them are/were omnivores. What are you trying to say?
Primal Vegan ? I'm saying that the consumption of meat is of no detriment to our health, the centenarians have proven it. If we have a balanced diet free from products produced by intensive, industrial, antibiotic-filled methods, i don't see why it should be harmful to us.
***** I agree with you... I'm not sure why you addressed me with your comment.
Why did he have to go from one extreme to the other? Why couldn't he have just eaten a balanced diet of meat, veg, fruit, pulses and nuts like the rest of the health-conscious world?
Well, you know what boys are like. It was probably a dare.
But also, I firmly believe that our food is getting much less nutritious as our farms focus on volume, aesthetic beauty and 'McDonaldified' bland flavour over taste and (I believe therefore) nutrition, So maybe a vegan diet is starting to make more sense these days...
Just leave out the "meat" (and all animal products) and we're fine with all the rest. "Health conscious" includes better spiritual (and/or moral/ethical) health. Slaughterhouses have a place in that? No.
Extreme? Eating and drinking respecting living things, the environment, and our bodies can not be considered extreme. The question everyone should ask ets "Why I'm not Vegan?"
sylvain pistolet Veganism is not the healthiest choice for everyone, not even for most. That's a good reason not to be vegan.
I used to be a vegan. I was overweight, gassy, my hair was stringy and lifeless, I was sad and sick all the time. I start a paleo diet and lost 60 pounds of fat, my hair sprung back to life, I am so happy all the time, and I packed on so much muscle. Eat meat...it's the reason why humans are at the top of the food chain.
Veganism is about making a choice every minute of every day to preserve as much life as possible.
The philosophy of Veganism is best stated "Cause the least amount of harm to any living thing possible, without allowing yourself to be harmed."
No human can continue to live without some living things dying, but the point is to MINIMIZE the harm in any way you can. That is what is called "widening your circle of compassion."
I am baffled! When i am on a plantbased diet for a couple months, i loose strength. I did that twice and both times i came out weaker then before. No clue how someone can grow stronger plantbased. Maybe with powders and pills and whatnot...
Plants have a lower energy density than meat, so you simply have to eat a greater volume of food.
Do it the right way Manato by eating the right ratio of protien (Rice+beans) simple as that. 60-Million Mexicans in America couldn't be wrong...and they are growing strong (unfortunately).
Kimberly Snyder CN, is all lean muscle. My man grew up vegan and didn't loose strength, exact opposite. A couple months would mean you feel weak because of all the toxins leaving your body and seeping out to your bloodstream. You make it past the transition phase. NO substitutes, like pills or powders.
We're even because you baffle me; I wonder which branch of animal ag is your vested interest. Call me overly skeptical, but your claims of weakness from eating plant foods just don't ring true. There are plenty of calorie dense, protein rich non-animal foods like bananas and walnuts. Vegans can be extremely fit and strong if they work at it, same as anyone else, better in fact because their systems are free of dead, abused, slaughtered, innocents, thereby much cleaner in body and spirit.
***** well, i can understand the vegan mindset, trying to be spiritually clean and innocent. That was appealing to me too. Who doesn't want to be innocent right. That's why i tried it in the first place. And after it didn't work out the first time, i tried it again with the same results. So far my personal experience. I've been experimenting with nutrition for the last 7 years. I tried low carb high protein low fat, high carb high protein low fat, high carb low protein low fat. Transitionphase is always great but none of these were sustainable. Now i am on the ketogenic diet, the one diet i've never tried before because it did not appeal to me and it's said that it's unhealthy. But i've never felt so good for the past 10 years. Maybe you all got it wrong.
I find funny that emphaty with animals is rarely a reason to go vegan or vegetarian. Everything is about us, our health, our looks, our social life. Who gives a shit about anothers life? you take a mother's kid, or a kid's mom, make them live an awful, short and meaningless life just to satisfy yourself... but it's ok because it's been that way forever right? just like with slaves...
*****
That's a fact. What's facing human kind is the consecuence of being concious of our desires and unconcious of other's well being, including other humans.
The guy on the video is ok, he's trying to make the vegan thing attractive to masses, but we all know that real changes happend out of ideas, of principles, not a cool trend.
***** I care about all animals but I don;t care about you
+Felipe Montoya Get over it.
Tayler Ralph On what? why should I? why shouldn't you get ON it?
+Felipe Montoya Whether we make it about us or not, it's still a contributing factor of people not eating meat. It doesn't matter what the reasoning may be; pollution purposes, a healthier lifestyle, or for the benefit of the animals, it doesn't matter. All that matters is that people are contributing towards this effort.
His cholesterol is WAY too low. Dangerous almost. All of our cells make cholesterol, it's a fatty acid our bodies need. ESP. our brain. It really is cell food. Processed foods, typical supermarket fare, sugar in everything is causing artery damage leading to heart disease. Quit blaming cholesterol. Also all the sugars and crap induce inflammation of the arteries and cause the creation of SMALL particle LDL which is what is building up in the potholes (made by sugar) on peoples arteries. Fat and cholesterol are pretty innocuous. Avoid a high sugar/processed diet. THAT's the take-a-way.
THANK YOU! People are so duped into believing today's pyramid typical American diet. Your stomach delivers cholesterol and fats straight to you heart. We stick to healthy grass fed cows butter/beef, mct/coconut/cod/avocado oils + non-rancid olive oil.
and he looks more like a chubby guy than a bodybuilder to me
*****
No you are wrong. Your body only makes about 85% of what you need and eating more only eases the tax of making it for itself. Please lay off the koolaide and giving broken "facts"
***** "Mother Nature doesn't leave it up to humans to get whatever they need from diet alone."
Have you ever heard of Vitamin C? EFAs? EAAs? Minerals? All of those come from diet alone. The human body can't produce them. Whoever wrote that sentence should be fired, because it's entirely untrue.
Also, since the body has the ability to regulate cholesterol, does dietary cholesterol even matter? I mean, if it can increase or decrease cholesterol production to compensate for a deficiency or surplus, why doesn't everyone have perfect cholesterol numbers?
JJ J
The main tenet of Veganism is "cause the least amount of harm possible while not allowing yourself to be harmed."
A lot of people forget about the "not allowing yourself to be harmed" part.
There are plenty of peer reviewed studies showing this; but here is one of many
Hoffman, J. (2004). Macronutrient utilization during exercise: Implications for Performance and Supplementation. (The College of New Jersey) Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2004) 3, 118-130
Judging a foods benefit purely by categorising whether its a plant based or animal based food is insane. Is a bowl of sugar somehow more nutritious than a bowl of grass fed liver? Is pasta somehow good yet butter bad for a t2 diabetic? Some people can live quite well on a vegan diet, some get unwell. Good on the ones that can make it work for themselves. Personal attacks on anyone who doesn't have dogmatic vegan views isn't doing anyone any favours. Perhaps more coconut oil needed?
"Is a bowl of sugar somehow more nutritious than a bowl of grass fed liver? Is pasta somehow good yet butter bad for a t2 diabetic?"
YES!!!!! You haven't learned this yet???
It's like saying "some people can live well on a 3 dishes of feces per day, and some people need to eat actual food." It's not true.
Animal proteins are TOXIC. If something is poisoning you, you don't keep eating it! What don't you understand?
Besides,
1. nobody eats an entire bowl of sugar. And nobody said that consuming that much sugar is GOOD for you. But it's better than eating liver, PERIOD.
2. Diabetes is CURED by going Vegan. CURED. Not "remission", or "mitigated" or whatever term you want to call it when something is slightly better. CURED.
"Some people can live quite well on a vegan diet, some get unwell"
This is uninformed crap, perpetuated by people who want to justify continuing an unbelievably destructive and self-destructive activity solely because of the physical pleasure it gives them. The truth is that people who stop eating some items and don't know how to cover all their nutritional bases end up eating a ton of processed garbage and get sick. THAT'S NOT VEGANISM.
Real Vegans eat a ton of healthy food and don't get sick from it. If they end up deficient in ANYTHING they just add that thing to their diet. This is all accomplished without resorting to animal substances. This is because when people are interested in Veganism for the right reasons, they take the time to study what they need from their food and why.
Learn actual science to find out why the human body is NOT that of an omnivore and why animal proteins, fat and cholesterol is toxic to the human body. You can do this by studying (I would suggest an unbiased site like Wikipedia if you don't have access to medical studies and books) terms like herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, frugivore, proteins, amino acids, cholesterol, phytosterols, ptyalin, lyososmes, B12, Uricase, SCFAs, heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, obesity, osteoporosis, Crohn's disease, and any info here (especially "Section 2:):
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Colin Wright Whole food diets cure people of disease all the time, both PB and omni. Quit the cherry-picked observations. No, sugar is not more nutritious than liver. And yes, butter is better than pasta for a Type II diabetic. These facts are quantifiable, nutrition content is quantifiable.
Animal protein is NOT toxic... ~sigh~ It's no wonder people hate us so much.
Veganism is an entire ideology and one can easily be a junk-food vegan as long as you avoid animal foods. This doesn't make veganism healthy. You don't need special term for it. A vegetarian eats only plants. That's pretty straight-forward. That doesn't necessarily equal good health.
Your name is "Primal Vegan" but why did you use that name? Do you believe that Veganism is somehow a fad or something you need to "follow" for health reasons? I really am wondering.
You don't know anything about bio-chemistry, obviously, judging even by something as simple as the fact that you don't know that it's not "animal protein." It's "proteinS" with an s on the end.
Animal proteins are absolutely toxic. No amount of you sighing is going to change that scientific fact. Do some research and learn what the anatomical differences between an herbivore, a carnivore, an omnivore, and a human being is.
"Primal Vegan" MY ASS.
I never mentioned grammar. The fact is, if you don't know that it's proteinS with an s on the end, you have no understanding of bio-chemistry and therefore, your opinion on that subject is irrelevant.
Study some actual science and then we'll talk.
meat today is highly processed toxic crap! Healthy meat is allmost nonexistent. Love you
why would you not eat meat?
Because of health and ethics
Dumbass^
***** Don't speak to yourself like that!
***** Fear
1) Morality and compassion
2) Health
3) Trying the whole spectrum of diets
Just love the way he simply stated the change he had made in his life and how it had affected him positively without resorting to the extremist arguments like 'meat is murder" and "animal products are poisonous". I think veganism is a perfectly good diet to follow as long as you know your food and know where to get all the nutrients you need, but it is in no way the only valid lifestyle and it certainly doesn't make you better than everyone else.
Rich Piano is my favorite natty vegan bodybuilder.
Why is this a TED talk exactly? Seems like anyone can come and talk about anything now. Wasted 5 mins.
This is TEDx. Not the same thing at all.
I hesitated but you motivated me to upvote this talk. Thanks.
Technology, Entertainment, Design. TED. So thats what these lectures are.
And i'm sorry you wasted 5 minutes of your precious time... I'm sure you could have been spending that time waiting.
Valentin Tihomirov No worries, I cancelled that out with a down-vote. ;-)
I was laughing a bit but then I remembered that it's TEDx it even says it's sponsored independently or something
"I grew up in a familly of meat and potato". End of the story. You will find out that all the so called vegan athletes have built a strong body from a childwood of eating meat and dary. Now they will tell you "hey look how strong and muscular I am eating only vegetables".
+Axl N With lots of cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
you're fucking ignorant and dumb bro. Protein is Protein and calories are calories. Tons of people get enough calories and protein and do just fine
+Josh Samuel Your belief that food is only macronutrients and calories show that you are the ignorant here.
Okay, so the guy stopped eating fatty meat and his cholesterol went down. No surprise there. I doubt this guy was ever a competitive bodybuilder, because no bodybuilder is going to eat fatty meats. Had he stuck to a real bodybuilding diet of lean meat chicken breast, 95/5% lean ground turkey/beef, and lean fish he would have seen the same drop in his numbers (weight loss and cholesterol).
There is NO such thing as low or no cholesterol meat !!! Lean meat might be low in fat, but a small 3 oz. serving of skinless roasted chicken contains between 70 mg and 80 mg of dietary cholesterol. That is around 25-28% of a daily limit. Competitive bodybuilders take steroids, it ain't the 6 piece and fish making them big.
geneva1999
Dude, you can literally eat a pound of skinless chicken breast and get 70 mg's of cholesterol. That's absolutely a low cholesterol meat.
Check a nutrition label, for your own sake!!!
geneva1999
I'm a bodybuilder and a nutritionist, I know. Now, I'm done giving you a free course on nutrition. So demonize meat, eat carbs only when there is a full moon while standing on your head. I could care less. Peace!
www.livestrong.com/article/424979-is-chicken-high-in-cholesterol/
Short and to the point.....inspiring me to change.
Mckinley Walker, jr you wont regret it! 🖒
The positive findings of vegetarian and vegan diets are also echoed by the American Dietetic Association (ADA), which ranks among the list of proponents. The ADA is one of the most highly respected advisory boards worldwide.
" I didn't think i had 35 pounds to loose " the dude lost 35 pounds of muscle !!!!!!! the dude was a bodybuilder for 10 or 12 YEARS , LOL now he looks that he's been lifting for 6 months ! that's vegan for you :))
So, even though he supposedly lost 35 pounds of muscle mass, according to you, he still gained in strength? How do you explain that?
he didn't gain strength ; even if you loose fat you lose strength,
je187u Did you watch the video?
well i quoted from it ... :)
lmao he lost all his gains man...damn shame...
When I learned that 50% of the U.S water supply and 80% of our agricultural land is used for livestock, either pastures or crop fields for their feed, I saw how cutting back on dairy, meat and eggs could make a difference. If our overall animal based protein consumption decreased we could have more crop land to grow food for humans around the world who otherwise don't have the capacity to feed themselves.
My mom was vegetarian 30 years ago and now I'm Vegan. She spends very little money on meat (she hasn't been veg. in ages) but my aunt spends a ton. My mom buys me all plant-based foods and she spends a ton less money each week than my meat-eating aunt. Hopefully someday soon mom will go Vegan and then we can get more of my family to spend less money. It goes to show though that eating meat can be very addictive. It had me in it's clutches for 15+ years.
God bless you in what you are doing for both yourself and Life. Please don't stop.
Just out of curiosity, which comment of mine were you replying to? The one where I said you got it wrong, or the one where you said I can't read?
would like to know what is his diet exactly while bodybuilding
My grandmother is suffering from Alzheimer Disease and though my mother did not carry the gene, it's me who's going to inherit it in my older age. That's why I embark on this plant-based lifestyle now in my 20s to prevent from not only Alzheimer but also cancer, heart disease, and hypertension. Is anyone going through the same journey? I'd love to hear your stories. :)
How's things going ?
Why is sugar from fruit okay when sugar in processed food isnt? Curious
i'm not lactose intolerant and i don't drink a lot of milk, but when i do i don't have no side effects at all
It is possible to mix and match incomplete proteins to get the full spectrum of EAA's; however what you can't get from plant protein is high bioavailability. Furthermore all plant proteins are low in BCAA's, leucine in particular; the simple fact is that muscle protein synthesis will be impaired without complete animal proteins. Complete proteins aren't necessary for survival, neither are dietary carbohydrates; but human health and performance are optimized with both.
Of course it's not a casual link. It's a direct link. I ate lots of animal products for the first 30 years of my life. Developed several problems. Last 26 years have been mainly free of animal products. I'm now in the best shape of my life with no aches & pains. Most of my meat eating friends are on meds for their various problems.
The problem lies with the vague terminology of the word "complete" because it simply states - containing all the required amino acids. Some plant protein sources like soy beans while stated as complete are underrepresented in specific ess. amino acids. So in a practical sense they are not complete if they can't provide enough for (re)construction.
Yes it's possible to get enough of all essential amino acids trough plant based food alone trough combining, but it requires some unterstanding/work.
It's a book, it was never published in any scientific journal, nor was it peer reviewed.
so when your trying to bulk how does the vegan lifestyle affect that? would it take longer??
This is true. This diet saved my life. Raw fruit is optimal diet. 💪🍇