- Right well as we are out here at Oceanside,
we thought we'd catch up with Joe Gambles
the day after his race. - Yep.
- Joe thank you for joining me.
- Hey, you're welcome.
- [Heather] And I gather we got here just in time
to see your recovery through the day after the race.
- Yeah, definitely, um.
- What have you got in store for us?
- Well, it's not the healthiest meal
because after a race, you just wanna,
I don't know indulge a little bit.
(stuttering)
Fairly cleanly I guess leading into a race so.
I'm vegan so it's, I'm actually doing a Vegan French Toast.
So it's basically banana, um
coconut base, and then I'll do like a berry compote.
And then fry it up in some vegan butter
and then yep, put a little bit of maple syrup
and some almonds on there and
should be good to go.
- [Heather] It sounds delicious.
I think we need to get cooking.
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When, one of the things I want to know,
like we don't have egg here
and I think, I love vegan food and vegetarian food
but my concern,
or my, I guess what I want to know more of,
how do you, as an athlete,
get in enough protein in your diet and
when you made that change do you notice any kind of
any difference
- Yeah, definitely, like,
this isn't that high in protein.
Normally I would
add some more nuts
and I would, you could also
replace part of the coconut with maybe some protein.
You could put a plant based protein in there as well.
Um,
but yeah, this is, I'm indulging here.
This is not a typical diet.
Well I might have this, I don't know
a couple times a year.
- Oh, we are spoiled here at GTN.
- It's a yeah, it's a little,
this is not my normal diet, so-
- I'm not judging you.
- No, I feel judged. - It's fine.
(laughing)
I am looking forward to to enjoying this.
I mean if I have to eat it,
then I will. - Okay.
- Yeah, it's tough.
But rewinding, I mean you said you've only become vegan
about six months ago,
when did you first become vegetarian
and then why did you take the next step?
- I been vegetarian my whole life.
- Okay.
- My parents and grandparents were vegetarian.
So that's how we're raised. - Yep.
- I did it because I love to,
like animals too much to even get my head around
going to eat them. - Okay.
- But growing up dairy just, I don't know.
I didn't make that connection that it's also cruel and
now I'm becoming to realize it's not actually
particularly good for your body
and since making the change,
100% six months ago,
I've really noticed a change.
Like in terms of my recovery,
my digestive system is really thanking me.
I just feel so much better.
I seem to recover better from between training.
I don't wake up as sore from hard run sessions
and bike sessions, which at 37,
and I've been racing since I was like, 12 years old,
I notice these things.
It's, I'm used to waking up and going,
and sort of stumbling out of bed.
But at 37, I actually feel really good.
Um, so, I have made a big change
and notice a big difference.
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- Do you think there's a bit of
uh change in triathlon that's a switch towards
this style of eating and cutting out meat.
- I think there is a,
as a society, I think there is definitely
a shift towards that.
I think Lewis Hamilton is now a vegan
and an animal activist.
Like when you've got such high profile people like that
that are pushing that
and I think the environmental awareness
is a huge driving force behind that, so...
Yeah, cutting out meat out of your diet,
and dairy, um
has a great effect on the environment.
But yeah, in terms of performance,
I think with triathlon right now,
the level is so high,
people are looking any way
that they can, legally, to recover faster
and that's, well,
going more plant based.
99% sure Patrick Lange is a lifelong vegetarian.
- Yep. - Um...
Sebastian Kienle is even mentioned recently on social media
that he's
well 90% plant based now.
And yeah, we'll see how he goes with that.
Lionel Sanders is, he's an all or nothing sort of guy.
(laughing)
So he went from like,
quite meat heavy diet, to completely plant based.
He read The China Study book and
yeah I got talking to him before I met him on Tremblant
and he'd lost over 10 pounds, I don't know
- Yeah, crazy loss of weight.
- And we were talking afterwords
and uh, unfortunately
he's got back to eating meat
because I think
he changed so many things that it's hard to know
why he went from second the year before
and so close to winning,
to then no making the top 20.
So I don't believe, personally,
that it's to do with dieting plant based.
I think it might be more to do with other factors,
like changing your bike size the week before the race.
Sorry Lionel.
(laughing)
I consider Lionel a friend.
I would say this to his face so yeah.
- [Woman] I think he knows it.
- And maybe over training a little bit.
He would be the first to admit that.
And um, he changed his training.
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- Do you take any supplements to sort of make sure there's any,
of any vitamins and minerals you might have been missing
that you were concerned about that you do take?
- So, because I live at altitude, in Boulder,
I take a plant based iron supplement.
It's actually made from beet juice.
And then, vitamin B12 is probably the big issue.
- I was gonna say, yeah.
- And it was funny, I went to a seminar
and the a very um,
world renowned sports doctor was talking,
and he's plant based now,
and he explained why we have a lot of problems with B12.
It's because we used to get B12 from vegetables,
the soil but now because things are so,
the soil is not in great condition,
pesticides and everything,
- [Woman] Over farming...
- We have to wash our food.
We clean it so thoroughly, - Yeah.
- Because the soils not in great condition.
But we used to like eat stuff out of the garden
and maybe get a little bit of dirt and...
- So when I moaned at my mom when I was a child
cause there was like soil on my lettuce,
it's actually-
- Then actually that's yeah.
- When she said it was good for me, she actually-
- Well that's how we used to get B12 before...
Yeah, they started using chemicals and pesticides.
- Yeah.
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- [Joe] So we should get this served up.
- [Woman] We should.
This is like torture right now Joe.
This looks incredible and apparently
I'm not allowed to eat it
until we actually finish the video, so...
- Oh, that's a shame.
- So I don't know, I think we need to wrap it up.
And you need some nuts on top of yours.
- Yeah I do yeah.
- This is dish.
Well thank you so much for your help with this.
- Oh you're very welcome, yeah.
- And it smells amazing
and I'm sure it's going to taste amazing.
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Okay, time to go and eat.
- Okay, cool. - Let's do this.