Thrive: Building Vitality on a Whole Food, Plant-based Diet

A presentation by Brendan Brazier.
Based on his bestselling book, The Thrive Diet, Brendan Brazier will explain how to seamlessly incorporate a whole food, plant-based diet into your busy lifestyle, thereby reducing nutritional stress. The reduction of nutritional stress will help you: raise energy and vitality without stimulants improve productivity and enhance mood increase lean muscle and reduce body fat reduce the visible signs of aging eliminate junk food cravings strengthen immune function boost muscle efficiency, strength, and bone density relieve inflammation and increase joint mobility
Brendan Brazier is one of only a few professional athletes in the world whose diet is 100 percent plantbased. He${q}s a professional Ironman triathlete, bestselling author on performance nutrition, and the creator of an award-winning line of whole food nutritional products called Vega. He is also a twotime Canadian 50 km Ultra Marathon Champion. In 2006, Brendan was invited to address the U.S. Congress, where he spoke of the significant social and economic benefits that could be achieved by improving personal health through better diet. In 2007 Brendan returned to Capital Hill to lobby against the Farm Bill and was also named one of the most 25 Fascinating Vegetarians by VegNews magazine.
Filming and editing by Dr William Harris M.D. on June 10, 2008 at Ala Wai Golf Course Clubhouse, Honolulu, Hawaii
Sponsored by: Vegetarian Society of Hawaii www.vsh.org

[@fender1000100]

@joseph eagan, I've been living off of fruit, vegetables nuts seeds and grains for the last 5 years. Never felt better. Anything that was wrong with me from the days I used to eat steak and drink coffee is gone. I'm stronger than I've ever been at 51 I can move more weight and move faster than I could at 31. I sleep like a dream, have super energy throughout the day. Don't look my age and have a great love life. You can eat meat or not. Until you know the difference you can't see any. I know the difference leaving meat and dairy behind has made to my life.

[@sugarmaven]

Inspirational. Bolsters my decision to go vegan. My reasons are for compassion towards animals, but the nutritional payback is stellar. Thanks for uploading!

[@vshvideo]

Yes cheese tastes great. Fortunately vegan cheeses have improved greatly in taste in the last few years. Although eat sparingly as they are a highly processed food with a lot of fat.

[@colonyofcells]

I like sprouted nuts, seeds, legumes and grains. Sprouted grains cook quickly and my favorites are buckwheat to help lower my blood sugar and quinoa for protein. I also use lots of herbs in cooking like turmeric, american ginseng, etc to help lower my blood sugar.

[@rdkuless]

calcium must be accompanied by iron and magnesium to get lodged into the bone... dairy calcium is missing the other components necessary... eat collard greens because they have the perfect ratio of iron and magnesium to get the calcium lodged into the bone... milk is acidifying and causes the body to remove calcium from the bones to neutralize your ph...so dairy actually makes bone density worse...

[@colonyofcells]

I buy most of my organic food in bulk by the lb from mountainroseherbs and they sell maca powder (cultivated w/o chemicals). Vegan sources of carb are many including vegetables, seaweeds, nuts, seeds, mushrooms which have lots of micronutrients. Other carb sources with micronutrients such as fruits, fruits as vegetables like squash, roots (sweet potato, taro, poi), sago palm, legumes, grains. Also nice to buy roots like daikon and turnips with their green tops so getting both roots and greens.

[@camarade2]

It's always inspiring to see young people follow the right habits that promote health,well-being and longevity! Hands up for Brendan! Once in the right track (Vegan) never go back ;)

[@arielfleury5567]

I have all of his books, read Thrive, use the thrive foods cookbook, and now I am currently reading Thrive fitness. True rolemodel

[@PureSunshineFruition]

A company called Vegusto makes a fab cheese, but I'm not sure about shipping to the US as its made in Switzerland. Really worth a try. Could also make with soaked cashews, rejuvelac, nutritional yeast and miso, then hardened with agar and xanthan gum

[@WamaJK]

With time you will exit your denial, and adopt a plant based whole foods diet. Or you could wait for heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer to give you a wake up call. with massive healthcare bills to boot!

[@HopyHop1]

Cheese substitute: ground unhulled sesame seeds (unhulled seeds have lots of calcium), olive oil, and salt. ... It's not what I would call a health food, but it is closer to one than cheese.

[@jpbodybuilding5160]

Love the video I've been Vegan for the last 1 1/2 month and I will "never" go back to eating meat.

[@chicagochicago3404]

That amazing. Are you still vegan?

[@martyschumacher6979]

I have all Brendons books and love his writing, and recipes. He is brilliant, and he walks his walk. I have his green powder drink mix and it is great. High energy, easy to digest and delicious!

[@marleybob52]

Thanks for the post. I really wish videos on health and nutrition had more views. Brendan is the MAN! Love from North Vancouver BC Canada.

[@Zenhumanist]

What a magnificent talk.

[@agustn]

Very interesting and inspirational. Its a luxury to attend your lectures from Spain!!

[@jonathanfarrely83]

great video love what your saying in this video and your book thrive ive just read your book i especially like what your saying about stress i have a belly and i eat better than most excercise more and i still am gaining belly fat my favourite nutrition idol would be you dr mc dougall, michael gregor ,janice stranger, william harris ,colm cambell,dean ornish .Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn'to name but a few keep up the good work brendan

[@65ADORNO]

What separates top athletes from Joe Blow is Genetics, and usually a nice program of Anabolic steroids mixed with HGH and other ancillary drugs.

[@naturelbeautyyy]

Such a great video! Thank you! Great tips as well.

[@TopHatKitty]

It's very strange because I hear that thing about cheese alot, and after becoming vegan I've found that it's very true for me. Every once in a while I want pizza or cheezits or just a regular hunk of cheese sooo badly. But it's not difficult for me not to eat it.

[@gyrate4]

Try nutritional yeast sprinkled on low fat vegan homemade pizzas---it has a cheese-like taste. It's loaded with b vitamins, and although I can't prove it, I feel it strongly affects my dreams.

[@StopEatingMeatOrElse]

Try Daiya cheese. It's awesome.

[@oakanagan]

yeah hes awesome!!!! Willow-Brook - Okanagan bc...

[@rawvibing]

took my first 3 years vegan, then i never craved it again infact it usually grosses me out. Funny i went raw for a month the first time yeas ago, and my taste buds were reprogrammed, i tried a cheezit once and it just tasted like flour, bland. Haven't looked back since :)

[@chicagochicago3404]

I know Whole Food plant is good and everything but my daily workouts need high protein than carbs . How to get high protein into whole food plant based

[@landonbarretto3139]

Wrong. Where do you think animals get their protein?

[@sportmaster92]

20:00

[@gyrate4]

Really? I have crazy adventure dreams with convoluted plots after nutritional yeast.

[@PeanutChoco1]

I have nightmares after eating Nutritional Yeast.

[@chicagochicago3404]

If that true then every athlete in the world would go vegan

[@haridarshana]

wow this presentation is full of pseudo scientific nonsense.

[@WamaJK]

Read The China Study by T. Colin Campbell. His study included 65,000 subjects and found that a plant based whole (unprocessed, unrefined) foods diet to support a healthy lifestyle.

[@chicagochicago3404]

Why nonsense

[@eugenierunner7988]

haridarshana ur the one full of nonsense!!!

[@dmosier]

Please provide links or references to the proof of his approach. I can find none. I can not agree with you on the intelligence of his approach, as most of it is made up bunk. And bunk is not innovative, I see it on KZbin every day. I am not trolling or hating, just saying that Brendan makes factual errors in physiology in most every video I have seen. He is a fraud. Find a new hero.