Kelly Slater

But I was like, this is fuel for my fire right here.

I'm going to actually, like,

start being healthy yeah so i got i got super into um i i started just trying different diets like food combining you know i did food combining for a while i met i i became familiar with the gracie's from going to oh yeah from going to uh rio for contests every year

And then I eventually met Hickson and Hoyce and Hoyler and all those guys.

But I had read their book.

Prior to that, a friend of mine had written a book about them.

And I think two different friends of mine have written books about the Gracie family now.

But...

I started reading about their diets and, you know, they talk about food combining.

And then I started looking into it.

What is truffology and why don't proteins and carbs go well together, blah, blah.

And I started kind of like experimenting with that on myself and seeing how I felt.

And I realized I have more energy and I sleep less and I digest better and I don't have stomach problems.

And so I kind of just became really sort of fascinated with truffology.

health in the body and strangely enough my mom was an EMT and firefighter.

So she went to medical school for some degree of time to learn what she needed.

And so I kind of already had this like maybe this genetic thing in my DNA where I wanted to learn about the anatomy and digestion and all that stuff.

I was traveling in my early days when I first got on Quicksilver.

I was traveling with a guy named Tom Carroll who was two-time world champion.

But Tom was one of the few guys that cross-trained and really talked about diet.