Sage Running Podcast: Plant Based Nutrition and Diet Q and A 

It's awesome to see the plant-based message being spread by such talented athletes. Thank you for all you do, Sage and Sandi! Good luck in the marathon!

When I started running I was eating meat. The more I ran, the more I found that meat wouldn't make me feel "light", so I didn't have meat the day before my runs. I got to the point that I was vegetarian in a few months because I just felt better. At that point, I found Rich Roll and his his book Finding Ultra, which was a huge help to know there are people pushing the limits on a plant based diet. I didn't know Sage and Sandi where on a plant based diet until recently! Thanks for inspiration guys. I've been plant based vegan for over six months and couldn't be happier. Feel better, compassion to animals, and helps the planet. PS. Plant based food just tastes better.

"No matter what physical pain I'm in, my emotional pain has been so much worse." This is REALLY helpful advice

The world needs more compassionate people like you spreading the good word. Thank you for being so up front with your lifestyle and your beliefs on animal welfare. Good luck on the marathon!

you guys are Great :) you taught me run through the internetz last year, and i'm just so thankful to you both. i"m also a vegan runner in Hungary, so carrying the fire as you carry it over there. i hope we have the karma to meet in this life on some running event. until then, i wish you the best!

Compassion, non-violence, for your health, for the animals, for the planet. Vegan love 💚🌍✌️🐮🐷🐟💚

Kudos! Been plant-based 23+ years myself and you both have done a comprehensive job with fantastic resources.

"Comfortable in our ignorance" Great phrase Sandy !!!

Thank you great video, Vegan for 3 months now..my runs have improved so much..I don't feel sore after a long run..which is like I found a gold mine for me..thanks for the information 😘💪💚

NEW VEGANS: Make sure you center your meals around healthy starches like rice, beans, potatoes, lentils, legumes, pasta, oatmeal, barley. Then of course, add in all the fruit and vegetables that you want. It’s not just salads and kale. Most new vegans struggle with feeling hungry because we have been programmed to think that carbs are the boogieman. Read “The Starch Solution” by Dr. John McDougall (lots of recipes in there) or watch some of his lectures here on RU-vid.

Great video! I've been plant based vegan for 4 years and have never felt better!

Loved this podcast! I'd love if you did more videos on vegan nutrition for athletes. I'm a vegan marathon runner and I'm planning to go ultradistance this year, would love to know some tips from you on how to plan my nutrition in the race.

Thanks for this! With a bunch of teacher's in the area I am doing a 10 day plant based diet and am considering continuing it. This video helps a ton. Thanks again!

Plant power baby!

Outstanding! Thank you

Sage, my journey is very similar to yours! And Sandi, thank you so much for sharing your story, it was so touching and loving animals was what finally made me see that I couldn’t just be vegetarian anymore… had to go all the way. I was hiding my head in a hole like an ostrich from the information that was available. Great video, thanks again!✨💕

Sage we need more podcast with Sandy and you

This is literally my favorite channel on RU-vid, thank you so much for being one of my biggest running inspirations

Sandy, you rock!! Thanks for sharing all the insights on plant-based diets and the controversies in the food industry.

The thumbnail is hilarious. Sage looks like he's thinking "the fuck you just said"

Vegan runner, selected fot UTMB 2018. You doubt when you start running, then you stick to it, end your first marathon, got hooked, and realize how logic, easy and necessary running is. Same with veganism.

Sandy, you’re an amazing advocate for the animals! As are you Sage! Keep up the great work!

Fantastic podcast/video! You guys did an awesome job presenting the information and the resource page is great! Thanks!!!

Something to remember regarding the honesty of the conversations surrounding the organic food craze is that, in the US alone, organic food is a $45B / year industry. There are entrenched players on both sides with deep pockets and strong motivations to push their agendas and narratives.

You're an inspiration Sage, thanks for being you.

Congrats on the Canaberry launch, sir! Looks like a solid ingredient list. Will pick up a pack to try out once my existing Stingers are gone. On another note, I've been taking a short break from running to give my joints a rest and do some intensive strength training over the last several weeks, and your regular videos are a big part of what's keeping me focused on getting back out there ASAP. Thanks for the continued motivation and info!

You both make so much sense. I'm particularly impressed with sandis view on animals intelligence. Like others have said put a ring on it!

Put a ring on it sage 💍

Good stuff.....You guys, as well as Rich Roll, Jurek, Brendan Brazier (cyclist), and many others are all an inspiration to me....thanks

Love your channel sage and sandi! Thank you so much...

Excellent content! You both are my inspiration to healthy running!

Love watching you two, so sympathetic and passioned :-)

well done guys. you are really good people,

Most athletes just want to hear the health reasons for the vegan diet. Thanks for bringing up the ethical concerns.

Good stuff! I always need to reinforce healthy eating-I sure am enjoying Speadgoat2! Hoping you do WELL in the marathon! Just try your best to put it all together-maybe surprise yourself.

This is super helpful in so many ways! I'd love to hear your take on vegan protein powders. My guess is you don't see them as necessary because whole foods provide enough protein. Ive heard that whenever you isolate a protein you create a small amount of MSG and have thought its maybe best to avoid them.

Love this!

Thanks for covering vitamin B12. I was curious about where it would have been found in nature for anyone surviving on a plant-based diet pre-fortified foods or supplements.

Good luck at the marathon

Really like this video! Thank you Sandi nice to get the female perspective

While I can't see myself going totally vegan or plant based, I appreciate the information. Over the last few years I've taken to adding vegan and plant based meals to my repository.

Happy vegetarian since 5 years. Nice video

Cool video! Good luck with your marathon!

Great video guys! I’ve been vegan-ish for 6 years and have never felt better!

Yes,,,,I am an elite runner.....

coach sandi coach sage = win-win!

My protein supplements for smoothies, etc., is 100% plant based. The plant protein has all the amino acids and it tastes great! And Coach Sandi is right - as usual - plant proteins seem to be lower calorie so you get that huge added benefit, plus the fiber!

Yeah Cleveland!!!! Grew up in Strongsville, live in Olmsted Falls now. Parma Hts definitely not high on the vegan side.

what’s your take on keto / vegan keto diet?

Good Vid, as usual with VO2 maxx. And, no, I dont think there is one veg in Parma Heights.

Sandiii!

does spring energy ship to europe?

Sandi always 🔥 but especially so in this one

Is beer vegan?

Great podcast!! I've always wondered, how are you arms (especially forearms) so vascular yet you don't do any arm exercises, at least presumably!

You guys are good examples for being plant based. You guys are normal. So many “vegans” are weirdo flakes. Normal people can eight right too.

When you gonna put a ring on it 💍💍💍

Great insight from you two. Please stop sipping so loudly though! :)

fairlife milk ftw 80 cals 13g protein 6g sugar ayeeee

How do I know if I am getting enough calories?

Vegan Power! Yes!

I have been a vegan now for 2 years. Definitely never been healthier or happier. And on top of this, I have broken all my running records at the age of 34! I became vegan for ethical reasons, and never did I expect that I would become so much stronger and faster. The hardest thing about being vegan is dealing with all the people who choose to live in comfortable denial as Sandy said.

What about micro lesions forming on different areas of the heart valves from running at paces that are not naturally symbiotic in velocity which calcify and eventually cause heart attacks? Anyone wanna chime in on this or keep on inserting blind adherence to this reality? Thanks

How did your team mates have low ferritin levels eating all that meat? I tested my ferritin a few months ago and it was 304, and that's with eating 100% plant based for over a year, no red meat in 4 years, and without drinking alcohol. Iron deficiency is extremely rare. Iron overload is very common. At least 1 in 3 people have too much iron. Ferritin levels should never be over 100. Below 50 is even safer. Anyone with a ferritin level over 100 should definitely donate blood if they're eligible and continue to donate every 2-3 months until it's at least below 100, even better below 50.

All excellent as usual. I agree with all your observations 100% - but worth mentioning that Hoka shoes 'might not' be 100% vegan and air travel (speaking ecologically) is pretty much avoidable if one is committed enough. Also it's a complicated picture. I live in a remote corner of NW Scotland. I grow as much veg, as possible as there are no 'good' shops here, though we do get pulses, rice etc delivered. We have a ridiculous amount of deer here - largely due to human mismanagement. There is no harm in eating them occasionally - with positive environmental effects (the grazing issue is huge here) and no (if only eaten from time to time) human health issues...then one is just left with a moral issue of course.... I understand that I am making just minor points however.

You should read "Bad science" by Goldacre.

Are you married? Love that you are plant based :)

What the Health turned me vegan overnight.

yup i feel sorry for pigs too . atleast the domesticated ones. Poor animals got domesticated to a point they are a new species now ! And when we are done with it they gona die out because there will be no demand for their meat... Too much vegetarians... Sorry pigies. You survived and adapted and even after that this is the end for you... we dont want your meat anymore....

Closer to the mic would've helped

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, Elon Musk's recent negative comments about public transport are completely out of step with any vision of a cleaner, more ecologically sound world. The dreaded human 'ego' gets in the way all the time...another complication.

Don't put a ring on it... Please think rationally.

Okay so if you have to argue your way of eating like this, there's something wrong. This lady needs to organize herself before giving health advice to anyone.