Plantapalooza: Thriving as a Plant-Based Athlete with Matt Frazier
The Outlier Health Podcast
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How to Keep Calories Up on a Plant-Based Diet
For me, an athlete really like the thing that is just number of calories because unlike a whole lot of people in the population who are doing their exercise to lose weight and they don't necessarily want to replace all those calories. So when they go plant-based and they are suddenly by default down 30% in terms of calories for a given level of satiety, they eat what feels like the same amount but they're eating whatever 25, 30% less calories,. They need to actually make an effort usually to keep that calorie count up. That might be mitigated a little bit by the fact that the foods you're taking in on a healthy plant-based diet are higher in nutrients than what
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