Hey guys, welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy, where the Proof is in the Singing!
I’m doing a whole series on answering questions from YouTube, from Facebook, from
InstaGramm…
All these different social media sources, that I want to do my best to give you my personal
experience.
I’m not a doctor, however I have a lot of information, I think that will help you.
The question here today was "What is the best diet for singers?"
Well, before we start any of this conversation, use some common sense.
Okay?
Think about this.
If you put in sludge, sludge is going to come out.
If you eat cheeseburgers, and pizza, and chocolate milkshakes, and French fries and all these
different things, please don’t expect a high-performance engine.
This isn’t just about your voice.
This is about your whole body, and how your body functions, and your voice is part of
your body.
So just have some common sense here with me, guys, as we go through this for a second.
Now.
I actually love cheeseburgers and pizza…
Who doesn’t?
Right?
But, in the end, if we stay with a plant-based diet, and we can have our body have maximum
nutrients to provide the tools that we need to be great at what we want to do, we are
going to win!
If we don’t, we’re going to come up with disease somewhere along the line.
So there are two books, they’re great.
I know I've published this before, but I’m going to publish it again.
This one is called eat to live by Doctor Joel Fuhrman.
Check it out here.
This book is ROCK STAR.
And I’m not asking you guys to become vegans.
That’s not even what I’m saying.
I’m just saying the closer we can stay to a plant-based diet, the healthier we can become.
There’s another one here called Forks Over Knives.
Check this one out.
Here it is here…
Now this book is very similar.
You know, they have very similar things.
And the reason they are doing this is they’re saying don’t eat a bunch of red meat.
Don’t eat a bunch of cheese.
Because, you know, when we eat cheese and we eat, even yogurt, like people are, like,
you know, yogurt's really good for you.
Well…
I mean, people do that because they think that the probiotic that’s in yogurt is good
for them.
There is a lot of ways to get a probiotic, and you can do it in just fermented vegetables,
there's supplements you can take, or whatever.
If you’re looking to minimize mucus, and just get good dietary health for singing,
you’ll do what I say.
But there’s a few more things here, too.
Come on, guys!
Let’s be real about this!
Get some exercise!
Go out!
Go for a walk!
Go for a run!
Ride your bike!
Go for a swim!
Hike!
Do something that, again, gets blood flow through the body, to where your body is able
to regenerate and rejuvenate itself to be able to support good immune function.
Okay?
A couple more things…
I have a couple people that said you know when I eat 20 minutes before I sing, I feel
like I’m going to puke or, sorry, and I feel like I’m gonna regurgitate all of this
food…
Well, have some common sense in that too, like wait…
Eat a whole hour before you sing, or more, an hour and a half before you sing.
Now some people get so worked up when they sing and they're so excited they’ll wait three
hours or more.
Well, you need energy, you need some fuel to sing.
Do it an hour and a half before, and give yourself enough time, so that when you do sing that
you’re not regurgitating this.
Another thing.
Don’t drink a bunch of alcoholic beverages.
Now, everyone likes a good glass of wine, or a beer, or whatever your cocktail of choice
is.
I’m not gonna say you can’t do that.
What I am gonna say is that it dries out the cords.
So, if you’re going to drink a lot of alcohol, you’d better be rehydrating your body with
a whole lot of water, or doing something else that’s going to be able to give you back
the resiliency that needs to go in the cord, to re-feed the cord with moisture.
And, not only that, but if you do beverages that are carbonated, the carbonation also
makes you gurgle and regurgitate.
And you’re going to go Awww and have all of this acid building up in the stomach.
One last thing.
And this is really important.
Again.
I like a good steak, guys.
I like a piece of pizza.
I’m not saying don’t ever do this.
What I’m saying is, is before I go to bed, if I eat a big steak, and I can’t digest
that steak, this is really important, because I build up acid reflux in my stomach, that
sends acid up into the throat that gnaws away at my vocal cords.
So please don’t eat big fatty, you know, meat dishes before you go to bed.
Do it in the middle of the day, do it in the morning, midday, sometime like that.
If that’s what you need to do, and I get it, because I do that too.
And I need meat.
And I need carbs, and stuff.
So again, I’m not vegan, though I subscribe to a plant-based, as much is I can, a plant-based
diet.
This will really, really help you.
Now the last thing is, is remember.
When I talk about dietary thing, or excuse me exercise things.
You know, if we don’t exercise, we have to exercise our body and our voice and they
have to work together for this.
So if you’re not willing to take the time to do the right things to eat right and exercise,
please don’t expect a good result.
Sludge in, Sludge out.
Okay?
Say it again.
If you’re going to feed your machine, your whole body machine sludge, that’s what you’re
going to get out of it.
If you are willing to take some extra measures and just do the right thing, it will blow
your mind at how much your immune function will keep you from getting sick, building
up mucus on the cords, give you strength for when you sing, give you energy that you didn’t
know you had…
All these things.
This is my recommendation, okay?
I hope you guys find this helpful.
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