Name: 【TEDx】A vegan bodybuilding experiment: Joshua Knox at TEDxFremont
Uploaded: 2014-06-16T16:46:11.000Z
Duration: 5 min 14 s
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I grew up in a family of meat and potatoes.

a deli daycare where I would be dropped off everyday

So if you take a look at my family background,

So on my mom's side, they grew up in Argentina,

this is the place where you have a lot of dairy farmers

You add to that my dad's side of the family,

This is a place where you literally still have

cattle drives through the middle of town.

So you put those two together and what do you get?

pretty much every meal that I ate was a giant pile of meat.

At one point in my life I really would literally brag,

that I ate steak, every day, for forty days.

And I thought that it was an accomplishment.

So it all changed, on a very fateful trip.

This is a trip that normally takes 4 or 5 hours,

and we are having lots of crazy conversations.

At one point we were making animal noises

everyone was basically sleeping in their car.

So a very good friend of mine up in the back of the audience, Brian Robin,

He started talking about a plant-based diet,

and you had a car full of extremely skeptical people,

we had you know, four other people in the car besides Brian,

I learned a lot about cooking from my grandmother

but the foundation of everything that I would cook was really meat,

but it's a side dish it's a second thought.

So, you know after this long conversation with Brian,

I think he did a very good job of inspiring the rest of the group.

all decided to go seven days, no meat whatsoever.

So we were all a little bit of a support group in each other,

challenging each other to try seven days no meat.

I think if you were to ask those who knew me at all,

Not only no meat, but no animal products whatsoever.

They'd have told you that it's absolutely impossible.

it was actually very easy for me to go seven days with no meat,

And I took a look at my own family history.

I have two grandfathers who had quadruple heart bypasses,

what I have been talking about my family history.

I have a grandmother who passed away from diabetes,

really said well maybe I can try thirty days,

and so thirty days quickly turned into more than a year and a half,

I spent 10 or 12 years really bulding my body.

and I had a major concern that I would waste away,

and all this work that I put in would just completely disappear.

So after more than two and a half years now,

of doing not only plant-based but then maybe mostly vegeterian,

I actually found that not only was I able to continue

increasing my strength and my performance,

but also saw massive gains in endurance as well.

one of my favorite things to do is to eat.

It's one of my favorite ways to interact socially.