Bodybuilding competition prep

[buffboi26]

HI Shelley,

Can you please educate me on two questions?

1. regarding bodybuilding competition prep, what usually happens is that competitors go through carb depletion for weeks ie they eat very little or no carb and fat. what are your thougts on that??? any thing i can do to minimise the harmful effects of that?

2. you said somewhere that you recommend some vegetarian days each month for bodybuilders so as to get rid of excess protein from the body. I do 1-2 liver flushes a month. for each flush, on the day of the flush, i eat vegan till 2 pm and i fast. and the day after the flush, i eat no animal protein as well, but i do eat nuts. is that enough?

Many thanks and looking forward to your response.

[shelley]

I've met too many bodybuilders who have aged themselves decades by trying to win these contests and gain bragging rights. And it's sad, because they don't have to. Jack La Lane, for instance, never did any of that. He just exercised and ate a balanced diet. No fads, no steroids, no creatinine, etc. And he's still going strong.

One or sometimes two days a week don't eat any animal protein, just nuts and beans at most.

[Restall999]

Thanks for the Jack La lane idea, just been on his website, hes awsome!! have you any more research role models ?

[shelley]

ah, do you mean for weightlifting only or other smart people I refer to on any health subject? Because I don't have any others for weightlifting. I've read papers by sports physicians who take care of Tour De France riders, since their atheletes really have to perform and there's a very small margin for error. That means they know to the gram how fast the stomach absorbs fluids, for example.

[Restall999]

Well just anyone with regards to living a healthy life! Diet, Nutrition exercise etc...
One thing about jack Lalanne is that he is against drinking anything dairy - No Kefir shakes for him then! He does love the egg whites though!

[shelley]

Yes, dairy is one of those things you have to find out for yourself - we're all genetically disposed towards dairy, sometimes favorably, sometimes to our detriment. Either way, however, Kefir is fine as it is no longer dairy really thanks to the microbes.

Weston A Price and the nutritionists that worked with him (Nourishing Traditions is a wonderful cookbook/nutrition book) is one I highly recommend and he is way into raw milk and butter. He correlated the quotient of Vitamin A in butter with number of heart attacks. Genius.
www.westonaprice.org is the link I think.

I also like the book "Juicing for Life" by Cherie Calboum.

Also a must-read is "Fats that heal, fats that kill" by Udo Erasmus.

The Blood Type Diet is the only one that is based on a real genetic marker so I give it more credence then others.

[Restall999]

A quick question, Lalanne also adds soy protein to his diet, I know this is not suggested on your web site? Is there a reason behind this?

[shelley]

Yes. Soy is NOT good for you. Eating Tofu was an incredible spin-doctor challenge done by a consortium for the commodities market. read www.westonaprice.org for the full story.

Additionally, practically no one needs to supplement protein or take protein powders. Eat an egg a day - you get tons of EFAs, every vitamin (except for C) in existence, and the most bio-available protein in the world. See recipe for protein shake in the FAQ.

The only "protein powder" I recommend is Metagenics' Ultra-Meal powder shakes which are based on rice protein. And even with those you still risk your liver and kidneys, which you can't live without!

[Restall999]

Sorry to go on about the subject,

Apparently jack lalanne has 50g of soy protein every morning after his exercise? He is 91 years old and still recommends it, I understand he supplement with alot of other supplements, so maybe this is altering the formulation?

This is somewhat conflicting what Weston A Price is saying? confusing when your trying to make up your own mind. What are your thoughts?