VEGAN or NOT or NOT ONLY… Are plant-based foods better for performance?
Many of you contacted us after the release of "The Game Changers".
This documentary made a lasting impression by showing what no film about veganism had shown before: VEGAN athletes can perform just as well (or even better) than those following more conventional diets.
It shows us stars such as David Haye, Venus Williams, Novak Djokovic,... who associate a vegan diet with better recovery and performance.
We are not taking sides, as we respect individual choices, and of course vegan athletes can perform just as well as others. We would also like to point out, as the film suggests, that supplementation seems to be the key for athletes who become fully vegan (that is, it is even more important than for omnivores).
We are not taking sides, as we respect individual choices, and of course vegan athletes can perform just as well as others. We would also like to point out, as the film suggests, that supplementation seems to be the key for athletes who become fully vegan (that is, it is even more important than for omnivores).
This is fairly logical: if you do not obtain all the nutrients you need from certain food sources, you will need to obtain them from supplements.
On this subject, we refer to the work of David Rogerson (Academy of Sport and Physical Activity, Sheffield Hallam University, UK), and more specifically to an article published in 2017 in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5598028/
In summary, veganism creates challenges that must be taken into account when defining a nutrition strategy, such as adequate intake of vitamin B12, iron, zinc, calcium, iodine and vitamin D, as well as protein (including BCAA) and omega-3 fatty acids. However, these scientists note that these deficiencies can be addressed through appropriate supplementation. This publication states that a nutritious vegan diet can be designed to satisfactorily meet the dietary needs of most athletes. In addition, creatine and [bêta]-alanine supplementation has been suggested as potentially particularly useful for vegan athletes, because vegetarian diets promote lower muscle creatine and muscle carnosine levels in consumers.
In summary, veganism creates challenges that must be taken into account when defining a nutrition strategy, such as adequate intake of vitamin B12, iron, zinc, calcium, iodine and vitamin D, as well as protein (including BCAA) and omega-3 fatty acids. However, these scientists note that these deficiencies can be addressed through appropriate supplementation. This publication states that a nutritious vegan diet can be designed to satisfactorily meet the dietary needs of most athletes. In addition, creatine and [bêta]-alanine supplementation has been suggested as potentially particularly useful for vegan athletes, because vegetarian diets promote lower muscle creatine and muscle carnosine levels in consumers.
In a table (based on this research), it looks like this:
As a reminder, at Nutri-Bay.com:
- more than one third of our catalog is VEGAN,
- our selection of supplements largely covers the risks of deficiencies
- we continue to develop our range and advice on an ongoing basis to meet your needs, however specific they may be.
- more than one third of our catalog is VEGAN,
- our selection of supplements largely covers the risks of deficiencies
- we continue to develop our range and advice on an ongoing basis to meet your needs, however specific they may be.
So please do not hesitate to contact us
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