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"Plant-Based and Vegan Diets in Sport & Exercise" with Dr Nanci Guest

We Do Science - The Sports Nutrition Podcast

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The Benefits of Plant Based Nutrition for Athletes

We know that gastro intestinal health is critical to an athlete. And i think we cannot underestimate the effects of a plant base diet in hep ing feed and nourish these interocites, or the intestinal cells. It's unclear as if now whether this is going to impact performance. A better egy is really providing the nutrition that those bacteria need,. This is going to come from plant foods. You're not going to get these benefits from animal protins. There is potentially some deleterious effects high amounts of protein, at the exclusion of plants, when it comes to the health ofYour gut and your intestinal lining. So even in one recent paper looking at the microbiomand athletes an

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