The Thrive Diet

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

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

This restrictive plant based diet can improve performance and enable balanced diet?

The non-dairy diet thrive enables, gluten, wheat, soybeans, corn, refined sugar or products of animal origin. However, drinks, gels and sports specific energy are allowed. Foods that are highly recommended are vegetables, plants, seeds, some grains, fruits, oils and nuts. Lower body fat and increase muscle toneDecrease signs of energy and mental agingIncrease clarityIncrease sleepImprove moodStrengthen main cravingsThe fight of junk food immune systemLower cholesterolDecrease when going vegan and soy free is figuring out how to get high-quality protein in your diet. Brendan recommends specific vegetable powders to add the smoothies and homemade energy bars to sneak into additional complete proteins. This can be done, but it is difficult to consume more than 80 grams of plant protein Walnut grain in one day.

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

This diet will probably reduce cholesterol, since it is virtually a diet free of cholesterol and will likely lower your body fat percentage, since you'll eat less calories. I'm doubtful the diet can improve your immune system or sleep habits much, but all other claims seem reasonable.

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

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