The thrive diet

The thrive diet was created by Brendan Brazier, professional ironman and is based on following a vegan diet to achieve optimal performance and health.

He designed his vegan program for anyone, no matter if you're an athlete or not.

Can this restrictive plant based diet improve performance and enable balanced diet?

The diet to thrive makes dairy, gluten, wheat, soybeans, corn, refined sugar, or products of animal origin. Sports drinks and gels specific energy are allowed, however. Foods that are highly recommended are legumes, vegetables, seeds, cereals, fruits, nuts and oils. Lower body fat and increase muscle energy signs toneDecrease agingIncrease and clarityIncrease sleepImprove moodStrengthen systemLower mental immune cholesterolDecrease main cravingsThe fight junk food when you go vegan and soy is figure out how to get high-quality protein in your diet. Brendan recommends specific pulses for powders added to smoothies and homemade energy bars to complete additional sneak into proteins. You can do, but it is difficult to consume more than 80 grams of protein of legumes/nut/wheat in a single day.

The concern is proper vitamin and mineral intake. If following this diet may need supplementation with vitamin B12, vitamin D, calcium, zinc and iron possibly.

This diet may lower cholesterol, since it's practically a cholesterol-free diet and will probably be lower body fat percentage, because you will eat less calories. I'm doubtful the diet could improve your immune system or sleep habits much, but all the other claims seem reasonable.

Since this is rather restrictive diet, it would be difficult for the average athlete. It takes more time, energy and money to prepare a diet like this. You can do, but you need to focus on getting enough calories, proteins and fuel for your lifestyle.

The book can be found on amazon here.

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