Thrive Diet

The thrive diet 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 to anyone, whether you're an athlete or not.

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

The thrive diet, no dairy, gluten, wheat, soy, corn, refined sugar, or animal products. Special energy drinks gels and sports, however, is allowed. Foods that are recommended are legumes, vegetables, seeds, certain cereals, fruits, oils and nuts. Lower body fat and increase muscle toneDecrease signs of agingIncrease energy and mental clarityIncrease sleepImprove systemLower cholesterolDecrease moodStrengthen immune-junk food cravingsThe main struggle when going vegan and soy-free is figuring out how to get high-quality protein in your diet. Brendan recommends specific pulses powder to smoothies and homemade energy bars sneaking additional complete proteins. It can be done, but it is difficult to consume more than 80 grams legumes/mutter/cereal protein sources in one day.

The only other concern is adequate vitamin and mineral intake. If, after this diet, you may need supplementation of B12, vitamin D, calcium, zinc, and possibly iron.

This diet will probably reduce your cholesterol because it is practically a cholesterol-free diet and will likely lower your body fat percentage because you will eat fewer calories. I am doubtful diet can improve your immune system or very sleep habits, but all other claims seem reasonable.

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

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