Thrive diet

The thrive diet was created by professional ironman, Brendan Brazier, 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 are an athlete or not.

This restrictive plant based diet can improve the performance and the ability for balanced diet?

The thrive diet allows no dairy, gluten, wheat, soy, corn, refined sugars or animal products. Specific energy drinks gels and sport is permissible. Foods that are recommended are legumes, vegetables, seeds, some cereals, fruits, oils, and nuts. Lower body fat and increase muscle toneDecrease signs of agingIncrease energy and mental clarityIncrease sleepImprove moodStrengthen immune systemLower cholesterolDecrease junk food cravingsThe main struggle when going vegan and soy-free is to find out how to get your high quality protein diet. Brendan recommends specific legume powders to add smoothies and homemade energy bars to sneak in for more complete proteins. This can be done, but it is difficult to consume more than 80 grams of legume/nut/grain protein in one day.

Only other worry is enough vitamin and mineral intake. If, after this diet, perhaps you need supplementation of B12, vitamin D, calcium, zinc, and possibly iron.

This diet will probably reduce your cholesterol, as it is practically a cholesterol-free diet, and will likely lower your body fat percentage, when you want to eat fewer calories. I'm doubtful the diet could improve your immune system or sleeping habits much, but all the other claims seem reasonable.

Since this diet is fairly restrictive, it would be difficult for the average athlete. It takes more time, energy and money to prepare a diet like this. This can be done, but you want to focus on getting enough calories, protein and fuel for your lifestyle.

The book is on amazon here.

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