 Brian Shaw might be one of the world's strongest men but does he have one of the world's strongest diets? Strong enough to keep him in the competition at 38 years old. We know that in order to be optimal from any perspective you have to have minimally inflammatory foods and get adequate nutrients in the diet. Is Brian Shaw simply destroying his body with a poor diet and could a better eating regimen have kept him in the game for longer? Let's take a look. Starting out with meal number one what I've got going is I have six ounces of bison patties trifecta makes this super easy because these are already pre-cooked so what I have to do is just cut these up like I said six ounces of those and then I have five eggs with that so I just dump the eggs in scramble that all up together on top of that I will have fruit and also five waffles so this is a pretty enjoyable meal to get the day going and taste pretty good so I always kind of look forward to starting my day with this. Alright so we got the eggs going those are looking great and while those are going I'm going to get the waffles in the oven get those cooking. Recap of breakfast real quick we got the eggs and the bison patties my fruit today I'm going with blackberries so this is approximately one cup of blackberries and then the five waffles that we cooked up. From the perspective of food choices if the quality was there we'd actually be in a pretty decent spot unfortunately quality is not there and one thing I always get curious about is are these bodybuilders strong men powerlifters actually eating this you know lower quality supermarket food do they simply not know any better you know do they secretly have a stash of Amish food in their fridge I don't know that the trifecta bison meat he has you know is he eating that because he's sponsored by them it's overcooked it's well done it's packaged in plastic it's frozen obviously the protein quality is compromised you know those egg glands best supermarket eggs high omega-6 conventional poultry feed definitely inflammatory and you certainly don't want to be eating you know unrealistically large amounts of eggs every day because you will develop nutrient imbalances as much as eggs are nutritious food you know you eat a dozen two dozen of them a day long term not healthy you know and that doesn't even include the agrochemical the pesticide concerns or antibiotic residue that's in the eggs from the chickens feed you blackberries could be great if they're organic or locally grown or high quality but you know if they're from the supermarket especially if they're not organic they're probably riddled with chemicals from the farming practices and the biggest concern about those waffles which he didn't make himself is the flour used it's usually fortified with vitamins and minerals like iron filings and a lot of people actually get hard palpitations after eating packaged products made with flour because of those iron filings it damages your liver can make you very sick it's not good for you even like the organic waffle mix or pancake mixes or the organic waffles from Whole Foods still tend to have those iron filings in them so for something like waffles pancakes you have to make them yourselves with as high quality ingredients as possible mainly to remove the fortified flour I mean to me that does not look like fresh squeezed orange juice at least he has real maple syrup there but overall you know the inflammation can be substantially reduced mainly from a chemical perspective and an ingredient quality perspective meal number two so what we got for this meal is 12 ounces of bison patties we've got eight ounces of sweet potatoes one cup of green beans and we'll do one cup of rice on top so this is meal number two and I gotta say looks delicious meal number two is not as bad as meal number one but still not good one thing we didn't mention was those eggs are also estrogen bombs because their conventional feedlot and any animal product raised in that manner is gonna have a significant amount of estrogen but you know with Brian Shaw's supplement routine extra estrogen in the diet probably doesn't make that much of a difference you know we do see the heavily overcooked meat and just in general you know the sweet potato the green beans and the rice are all heavily heavily cooked food so you know maybe Brian is taking a vitamin C supplement on the side for those anti-scorbutic properties he didn't specify organic or not you know we still have concerns about those pesticides and agrochemicals in the food again is he eating this bison from trifecta because he's sponsored by them or is it what he's actually consuming and the foods he did choose have low digestibility mainly because of their flavonoid compounds you know green beans and sweet potatoes are definitely not nearly as good choices of energy as rice is and there's no real nutritional benefits from having sweet potatoes or green beans due to their lower digestibility he might as well just eat a bunch more rice moving on to meal number three so this one is a pre-training meal so what I get for this is this is one bag of sweet potato fries we've already cooked those so I'm actually gonna pack this up and take it on the road with me so that's why I've got the containers out next up we've got shredded chicken that I've got ready to go right here we get to add some duck fat to that so two tablespoons of duck fat I'll throw that in here mix it all together and then for I guess you get to call it dessert now I get a rice crispy treat top that all off so I'm gonna get that packed up I've actually got a head over to treatment here so I'm gonna knock it out and get it done alright so we got the meal ready to rock and roll I'm gonna head out the door go get this treatment done and I will eat this probably in the parking lot right when I get there there's a pretty common theme to this diet he's getting in his protein he's getting in some calories carbohydrate energy mostly but the quality of the food is greatly compromised it's not organic there's omega-6 concerns it's heavily heavily cooked foods stressing his body's enzymes you know is he taking digestive enzymes on the side too is he perhaps taking antimicrobials probiotics to make sure his gut microbiome is healthy and he threw some duck fat in this meal and he's eating rice crispy treats there's far better options for that you could have some fatty fish for some omega-3 you could have just wagyu beef tallow from Frankie's for your age meat which would certainly be a better option just higher quality animal products you know we did a chewy chocolate chip granola bar recipe video yesterday you can make your own high quality rice crispy treats that are going to be infinitely healthier for you than that packaged garbage how is this guy so wealthy in this nice house so successful yet he doesn't put a little bit of extra effort into the quality of his diet does he not understand meal number four this is my post-training meal so what we've got going here is we're going to a 60 gram protein shake as you can see this is an undmarked container very very excited that this prep I have been using my own protein so this is a way isolate it is delicious we've been testing it different versions and I cannot wait to share it with you guys so I have been using that on top of the 60 gram protein shake I will have a banana and then with that I will have a peanut butter and honey sandwich as well so this is a great post-training meal really convenient really easy just mix up the shake and then sit down and have the banana and the peanut butter and honey sandwich so we're gonna get this blended up and down the hatch you know the food quality applies here again if that was you know 100% grass-fed grass finished whey protein which it's not it would probably be fine there's chemical concerns there's estrogenic concerns in the conventional stuff it's heavily processed you know I don't think the banana was organic and bananas tend to cause leaky gut for a lot of people peanut butter and honey sandwich you know do you have organic peanut butter do you have a naturally fermented sourdough bread do you have raw local honey do you have the highest quality ingredients he doesn't but if you did that it wouldn't be that horrible the only concern would be maybe a little extra omega-6 from the peanut butter but in this scenario he's dousing his stomach with chemicals and estrogenic metabolites from the whey protein all right guys final meal of the day meal number five and this is actually a substitution I'm not mad about it as you guys know for cheat meals I love pizza I love cheesecake it's definitely my go-to when it comes to cheat meals so what we're doing now with the diet is essentially manipulating everything going into the contest so tomorrow is another training day for me so at this point normally what this meal would have been is I would have had roughly a pound of bison burgers I would have sweet potatoes I would have a salad and then I would have some type of vegetable to go with that so we stayed pretty clean through the diet leading up to World Strongest Man and now we're at the point where we get to manipulate it leading into contest preparation training days if you will so we get to see how my body's gonna react to all of the phases of the diet leading up so non-training days for example right now the carbs are lower and the the foods are a little bit different training days are different as well the carbs are higher you know so there's a lot of different things going on we just kind of pick today as an example but leading into a big training session tomorrow this is what we're doing we're gonna see how I responded you know typically when we start throwing in pizza and cheesecake I feel really good I respond to that really well and typically my training sessions are definitely very exciting at this point so I'm excited to eat this to show you guys what we've got going I went with a pepperoni and meatball pizza then just regular regular just kind of New York cheesecake which is can't go wrong with that obviously and then just some coke to wash it down I don't know how this guy can talk intelligently with a straight face while he's drinking Coca-Cola and eating pizza again I don't know if this is a fake day of eating if this is what he's actually doing but my first question is how much fluoride is this guy drinking you know does he have a filtration on his water system he's drinking cola he's drinking that conventional orange juice that's definitely concerned we didn't address perhaps the chlorine in the water to just trying got bacteria causing oxidative stress you know we talked about chemical concerns and his other meals and how the foods are slightly inflammatory but this is just a whole step up you know drinking Coca-Cola eating pizza it's substantially more inflammatory it's full of so much crap and he's saying he feels better when he eats this stuff that's probably because his diet is too low in fat too low in caloric energy you know if I was Brian I would start adding you know more fat to his meals in the form of quality animal fats or coconut oil I would also start drinking maybe some organic juices even pasteurized just to get some more energy in the diet some higher calorically dense foods as opposed to eating this crappy pizza and drinking soda as we said with the other meals he can make higher quality alternatives to this stuff himself overall from a positive and negative perspective there's definitely so many nutrients he's missing so many things he can incorporate into his diet just from that perspective and obviously there's plenty of negatives that he can remove at his age I do think if he did fix his diet and lifestyle perfectly then he might have another good year or two left I don't know what I can certainly say is this diet and this lifestyle that he's currently following in my opinion is only like 50 to 60% of what he could be doing would that translate directly to his training performance I would assume so but you know it's unfortunate something that we're likely not going to see happen as these guys tend to think that all the drugs and all the supplements they take and kind of cover up negative lifestyle factors so thank you guys for joining me today let me know what you think this was made before the world's strongest man results but it's not looking like he's gonna be winning anytime soon so I hope you guys enjoyed the rest of your weekend and I'll see you guys for tomorrow's video if you could please you know share it on social media drop a like leave a comment all that good stuff