Brock Lesnar's Illness May Have Been Prevented By Proper Diet

**Prince** · 01-24-2010, 06:19 PM

Brock Lesnar's Illness May Have Been Prevented By Proper Diet

By Ray Hui

Brock Lesnar's physique and conditioning landed him on the February 2008 cover of Muscle & Fitness magazine and his athletic ability has contributed to his prestigious NCAA and UFC title accomplishments. But Lesnar learned recently, even someone in incredible shape is not immune to the dangerous effects of an unbalanced diet.

Upon finding out that a low-fiber diet played a role in his potentially career-threatening condition, Lesnar told the media on Wednesday that he drastically altered his eating habits.

"What got me here was a total protein diet, not enough fiber," Lesnar said. "I totally changed my diet, got on some natural healing medicine and was just doing a lot of praying."

P.R. Cole, who founded Fuel the Fighter to provide dietary consulting for professional MMA fighters, says there is is always pre-dispositions and fluke chances, but for the most part, with a proper diet and colon health maintenance, diverticulitis and diverticulosis are preventable diseases.

"There is a proven cause for it and it's a low fiber diet," Cole. "A condition known as diverticulosis is very common from the Western diet. Very low fiber, meat and potatoes thing."

According to WebMD, diverticulosis is the formation of numerous tiny pockets in the lining of the bowel. If the pockets become inflamed, the disease worsens with the addition of diverticulitis.

"It's one of those things, you don't always know why something is going to affect one person," said Cole, who is also the nutrition contributor for FIGHT! Magazine. "This is something you will generally see in older people because they've had years and years of this. But if you look at somebody like Brock Lesnar, who is young but has had a particularly high protein diet ... That process could've been sped up by a ridiculous amount of protein consumption."

Further, protein consumption replacing whole grains, fruits and vegetables in a low fiber diet may cause problems for the GI tract.

Lesnar, an avid hunter, admitted to a lack of vegetables on his plates.

"I'm a carnivore, you know?" Lesnar said. "I'm not a big fan of PETA. I'm a member of the NRA and whatever I kill, I eat. For years, I was surviving on meat and potatoes, and when the greens came by, I just kept passing them."

Cole suggests creatively incorporating vegetables into meals for those with a distaste for greens, but there is no replacement for a crafted nutrition plan.

"If you're a professional athlete, this is your job," Cole said. "You have to make the food as much of a priority as any other part of your training regimen. If you need to eat a certain way, to get to a level of performance your body is willing to give, You just need to do it."

In what Lesnar and UFC president Dana White described as "miraculous," Lesnar's perforation from a diverticula rupture healed and doctors gave him the green light to carry on his career -- and life -- without surgery.

With the threat to his career and potentially, life averted, Lesnar has re-evaluated his lifestyle.

"I consider myself a healthy human being, "Lesnar said. "I'm 32 years old and for something like this to happen to me, I definitely had to re-evaluate. When you think you're doing all of the right things and all of a sudden something like this happens, obviously you're not. I had to make some changes."

**I Are Baboon** · 01-24-2010, 06:43 PM

Bring back Mr. Otis!!!

**soxmuscle** · 01-25-2010, 08:23 AM

Yikes.

I need to add some fiber to my diet.

**cc-10** · 01-25-2010, 08:49 PM

damn i need to add fiber

**SilentBob187** · 01-25-2010, 09:24 PM

35g a day. It's easy fellas. If you don't have at least one bowel movement every day, you probably aren't getting enough fiber.

**soxmuscle** · 01-25-2010, 11:33 PM

That's the problem.

I have like 5-10 bowel movements per day; I just always thought it was because I was stuffing my fat face with food.

**MAC24/7** · 02-06-2010, 01:13 PM

**lazur** · 02-28-2010, 02:45 PM

If Lesnar was on an ALL-protein diet, of course it would be a problem. People can actually -die- from an all-protein diet. A HIGH protein diet is another matter entirely: I suspect the problem was whatever -else- he was eating, not the protein itself, ie: protein & junk..sugar under a thousand different names, and a long list of fillers, flavors and colors for his supplements,(& the supplements themselves, of course: mostly BS). On the new diet's side; GRAINS??? The article's language was awkward, but it sounded like he replaced protein with grains! That's dead wrong to do. Ok, if Brock really had NO fiber in his diet before, (I doubt that), THAT's a problem, but don't blame the meat for not having fiber, just ADD fiber, and KEEP the meat. Grains are a CAUSE of colon problems, not a solution!

**SilentBob187** · 02-28-2010, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by lazur

Grains are a CAUSE of colon problems, not a solution!

huh?

Which grains are you taking about? Enriched flour? Whole grain? Quinoa? I hadn't heard that before regarding grains.

**min0 lee** · 02-28-2010, 08:54 PM

Originally Posted by soxmuscle

That's the problem.

I have like 5-10 bowel movements per day; I just always thought it was because I was stuffing my fat face with food.

How do you not smell like ass?
Isn't your ass a bit sore after all of those wipes?
You must be exaggerating?

**soxmuscle** · 02-28-2010, 10:21 PM

It's not an every day occurrence but its true.

When I eat a ton of food at night, I don't get it all out the first time I go. If I get up and poop immediately, I'll have a cup of coffee a half hour later and be right back on the toilet. Then I'll go to the gym and squat and have to take a crap mid workout. Then I'll have my protein shake and poop again...

I've never hit ten but I've definitely taken five dumps in a day before, without a doubt.

I don't smell bad? I'm pretty hygenic...

I use baby wipes from time to time if my anus is a bit raw.

**lazur** · 03-01-2010, 12:32 AM

Google: "grains bad for colon"..that should get you some stuff. Also check 'quinoa'..you'll be surprised to learn that quinoa is -not- a grass, thus not a grain. I admit to being an extremist, but what is called gluten intolerance , I believe is actually -severe- gluten intolerance, and that we -all- have -some- gluten intolerance, just not severe enough to bother doing anything about it. Don't mind me, I believe the same thing about lactose intolerance.

**SilentBob187** · 03-01-2010, 08:39 AM

I'm with you on the 'enriched' grains such as white bread being bad but whole grains seem to have more positives from a research standpoint.

Rajamanickam S, Agarwal R. 2008. Natural products and colon cancer: Current status and future prospects. Drug Dev Res. 69(7):460-71.

Several natural products, such as, grains, nuts, cereals, spices, fruits, vegetables, beverages, medicinal plants and herbs and their various phytochemical constituents including, phenolics, flavonoids, carotenoids, alkaloids, nitrogen containing as well as organosulfur compounds confer protective effects against wide range of cancers including colon cancer.

Williams CD, Satia JA, Adair LS, Stevens J, Galanko J, Keku TO, Sandlers RS. 2009. Dietary patterns, food groups, and rectal cancer risk in Whites and African-Americans. Cancer Epidemiol Boimarkers & Prevention. 18(5):1552-61

Among Whites, non-whole grains and white potatoes were associated with elevated risk for rectal cancer whereas...The vegetable/fish/poultry and fruit/whole grain/dairy patterns in Whites had significant inverse associations with risk.

I wasn't able to find anything negative research regarding whole grains, but then again some of the articles are using a lot of jargon that is over my head. If you know of any, I would be interested in seeing them.

**soxmuscle** · 03-01-2010, 10:50 AM

Up since 10. Taking my third dump of the morning as I write this.

Where are the baby wipes when you need 'em?

**ceazur** · 03-16-2010, 07:56 AM

Wheres the mini wheats when you need em.

**lazur** · 03-17-2010, 12:54 AM

silentbob: It looks like there are enough other good choices on the list you posted so as to make the grains unnecessary if they cause any trouble. If they don't cause any problems, it's a non-issue.

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