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The Joe Rogan Experience there's something to that and there's something again from a guy who you know for 40 plus years of my life didn't eat wild game and then I eat it all the time right it's different it's different I I get beat up for this too because I guess you know vegans can say whatever they want about hunters and it's good to go I put up I remember I put up one thing about a vegan I can't remember what it was it's like somebody they're dying it's like they went from this healthy person to looking pretty sickly well there's a lot of those and it's kind of a meme joke thing and I'm just like oh no actually God and this is I'm probably stepping in I know you can't get canceled but maybe I can but I put up uh something about Canelo because yeah I guess he went yeah he went vegan for his last fight and all I put up was that worked well yeah I reposted I've been posted in my Instagram stories I got so much hate for that yeah you know and it's like we get crucified for being you know killers and meat eaters and all this I put up one joke meme about Canelo who looked awful compared to how he and with the one thing that changed was his diet and then all of a sudden I'm the bad guy but anyway well there's two things going on there one be Vol is a real legit light heavy weight and that's only the second light heavyweight the Canelo had fought the first one was kovalev but kovalev was at the end of his career kovalev had lost a bunch of times he'd been stopped and he wasn't the same guy as he was like when he fought Andre Ward the first time well kovalev when he was the man when he was a light heavyweight champion was a real Savage and he was winning that fight with Canelo too by the way there's a reason why there's weight classes and Canelo fought Floyd Mayweather I believe he fought him at 152 pounds which is the lightest he's ever fought generally he would fight at 150 54 and then he moved up fought middleweight and that's where he fought gennar I think he fought Triple G um Gennady Golovkin I think he fought him at 60 or it might have been super middleweight find out if that's so then there's a jump man and then I think it was 160. Golovkin was the middleweight champion and so that 15 pound jump is giant but you so you want to go up and
wait and quit eating meat that's what it says here 60. yeah okay so that was the they fought three twice they were supposed to fight a third time but it looks like he's gonna have a rematch with b-ball instead but if you're going to go up yeah you don't well it's like he he watched that documentary on Netflix Game Changers and there's a lot of you know look if you want to eat only vegan and you want to do it for ethical reasons and you don't want to be involved in animal death I get it you don't want to be involved in factory farming I get it um but it's not true when you say that it gives you a significant athletic performance boost it doesn't there's no real proof of that and they [ __ ] with some reality when they made that they did there's no real elite professional athletes at the highest level that I'm aware of that are vegan I don't I don't think it has the same bioavailability as animal protein and this is coming from nutritionists that are are unbiased and objective not coming from guys like you know the carnivore MD Paul saladino guys who like are proselytizing just to eat carnivorously this is just from like regular scientists they'll tell you like you can get as much protein from x amount of broccoli right as you can from a steak the problem is it's not the same kind of protein it's not as bioavailable and if okay so if survive surviving is one thing right thriving performing right or thriving is a whole other thing yeah you can eat a lot of [ __ ] and just get by and exactly and not die that's the real question but are you trying to be Optimum performance at whatever you do I was a vegetarian for six months we'll never tell you that when I was fighting because I was having a really hard time making weight and uh I wound I was I was you know I was uh competing when I was 17 I won the state championship at 140 pounds and the next weight class was 154. and I was struggling at one I couldn't really get I wasn't 140. I was like 153 154 and I would dehydrate the [ __ ] out of myself make the way and then I have to fight on the same day it was not good and I was fighting I didn't I won but I felt like [ __ ] I was like I could have [ __ ] those guys up if I was yeah like if I felt my best wrong right and then I did it for a while to try to lean out but I
was just tired all the time and I know I probably wasn't doing it right and I've never done it right where you know you eat pea protein and you make sure you balance your Macros and have someone but when I went when I started eating meat that's when I became at my best when I went on my my best performance run as a competitor it was all eating meat and that's mostly what I ate was meat right well I felt a lot different and that was the only example that I've ever had because it's a straight only stretch of my life when I was competing and the a very intense thing and I did eat I ate nothing but vegetables right for like a good six months months that's a long time it was a long time I tried as long because I had my instructor was very tall and we were from the same weight class you know and why is 140 might have been 147 whatever it was I forget what the weight class was but it was in the 40s and then he was like six three six two six three and he was in the same way class as me when he was younger was competing so I was like brainwashed to think like I'm too short for this [ __ ] weight class I gotta start myself yeah but it's just body types and then did you see uzman at the last fight with his red leather jacket no shirt baller right well he's like you know that if you want to make something make some noise and get some attention that's how you do it well he's trying to get that Canelo fight I know what's that big big money and maybe Canelo fight himself keep him on salads he's got a pretty good shot I want salads yeah I wonder if he'll change his diet because they were actually talking about that in the broadcast they were saying he seems a little lack days ago a little lackluster I wonder if it's his diet I don't know yeah after the fight we're talking about the diet it's like I don't know you know I know it's like I never want to say that it won't work for you because there's people out there that I know that are vegan that Thrive and they don't have any problem with it but I don't know how they would do if they ate meat I mean maybe they're just [ __ ] unbelievably Savage and if they meet they'd be even better but if you give them vegetables and still kill it his quote on it says that sometimes he eats
meat still oh I'm not very complicated when it comes to food I adapt a lot I adapt quickly Canal told ESPN it's it's not something I did all of a sudden that I left what I ate before from one day to the next all week I try to eat what is vegan and if one day I eat something else meat chicken whatever I eat it there's no problem yeah I don't know what that means really but that's what he said in response but that's not if you were um an athlete that is eating for performance like say if you went to uh that's the opposite of me yeah if you went to a Mike Dolce or uh you know uh George Lockhart or one of those guys that is not how they would tell you to eat they would prescribe a specific amount of protein specific amount of carbohydrates based on your weight right I mean they they're not saying like sometimes I eat this and sometimes they eat that that I think what's going on is Canelo is so [ __ ] good yeah that he can get away with eating squash and tomatoes yeah and still [ __ ] you up because he's so goddamn good he's been amazing he's amazing and just the fact that he went all the way up to 75 fought the ball went to the decision you know lost the lost the decision but was never in like real trouble yeah it was never like rocked or dropped or anything like that and he's fighting two-way classes above his natural weight loss it's kind of crazy yeah it is is he's he's an amazing fighter he's amazing he's one of the greatest of all time which is why he's willing to take that chance and go up to 175 pounds but in my mind if you are a athlete especially if you're in a combat sport you need to have everything dialed up dialed in your recovery you need to be doing the sauna every day ice bath you need to be eating all the right food drinking all the white water they should hydration test you every day you got hundreds of millions of dollars on the line that's Canelo Alvarez I know he shouldn't be eating [ __ ] plants [ __ ] you doing bro you eating celery we gotta get a steak in you yeah well that's what I was saying is like his approach where he'll eat you know greens and salads most time and every once in a while have meat that I do all meat and every once in a while have a salad you know when Mike Tyson was in here he was thanking me for turning him on to Wild
game really yes he's been getting Wild game yes from but I I offered to get him some elk but I never got it to him we never connected after all but he went to uh somewhere and got a lot of Bison he got a he was eating a lot of Bison yeah before uh he started training again he's like oh my God it made such a difference you thanked me during the last podcast we're turning on because I'm always talking about wild game yeah and he's like it made a big difference that's why I eat now is Wild game so if Mike Tyson says that I'd [ __ ] listen