Brock pins ills on high-protein diet, vows permanent change
Today, following an appearance on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” in which he professed a clean bill of health, Lesnar opened a bit…
Today, following an appearance on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” in which he professed a clean bill of health, Lesnar opened a bit more about his harrowing experience and road back to recovery.
“Everybody has life-changing experiences, and this is one of them for me,” Lesnar said on a media call this afternoon. “I believe everything happens for a reason.”
“I had been suffering for almost a year with something I didn’t really know what it was,” Lesnar said. “I had some stomach pains here and here and some flu-like symptoms throughout the year. Actually, during the training camp against Shane Carwin is when everything just kind of snow-balled. That’s when I realized.”
“I was missing full weeks of my training camp because I just couldn’t perform in my camp. That’s when I decide four weeks out to give [UFC officials] hopefully enough notice to say – hey, listen, the last thing I wanted to do was to come in and give a bad performance and risk losing my title. That’s when it really all accumulated.”
“This stuff just doesn’t come overnight. I’ve had it for awhile, so my stomach isn’t doing the job it needs to do. Finally, it just exploded on me, and that’s what put me in the hospital.”
“What got me here was a total protein diet, not enough fiber, and that’s where I was,” Lesnar said. “I totally changed my diet, got on some natural healing medicine, and was just doing a lot of praying. I had a lot of people praying for me.”
“I’m a carnivore. I’m not a big fan of PETA. I’m a member of the NRA, and whatever I kill, I eat. Basically, I was just for years surviving on meat and potatoes. When the greens came by, I just kept passing them.”
“[The experience] gave me a different perspective on life and my family,” Lesnar said. “I’m a young guy. These things aren’t supposed to happen. I consider myself a healthy human being. I’m 32 years old, and for something like this to happen to me, I definitely have to re-evaluate.”