Name: JRE MMA Show #28 with Georges St-Pierre
Uploaded: 2018-05-23T23:27:14.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #28 with Georges St-Pierre' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-05-23. Transcript available. Joe is joined by Georges St-Pierre discuss fighting and more.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #28 with Georges St-Pierre' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-05-23. Transcript available. Joe is joined by Georges St-Pierre discuss fighting and more.

JRE MMA Show #28 with Georges St-Pierre

going to the contender after freddy roach oh really yeah nice live boom we're
live you want
to wear headphones or no yeah it's better like this right do you wear your
cauliflower ears they
keep you from wearing earbuds uh you know those little things that go in your
ear does i need to
it no i don't need it you don't need it you don't have to i don't i don't have
to just keep this
close to your face and we're good all right there we go what's up man how are
you fantastic you look
good i feel good i feel uh if it would not be for my uh like uh ulcer that i
had that would be i feel
better than than when i was 25. what did you what did you have you had colitis
yeah colitis yeah what
is that how what causes that we don't really know what it caused it but uh the
best the best uh theory
is that uh before my last fight with michael bisping i tried to put on weight
extra weight so i followed
a diet program that i was eating every almost every two hours and um i think
your system is like a car
you know if you do a lot of mileage it overuse it and so that's what happened
with the stress and
everything during my training camp i had big problem you know i couldn't sleep
i had crazy cramps you know
sometimes i had blood even like that when i went to the bathroom at one point i
had to go do some tests
because i was worried that it was something more like i mean colitis is very
serious but that it was
like cancer or something because i had blood so i did some tests it came out
negative and i said to
myself i said this fight being delayed not delayed but postponed so many times
that if i
do something if i say that publicly what is going on i'm gonna lose the
opportunity to fight for the
title at 185 so i i keep it shot and i told myself i said whatever it is i'll
deal with it after the
fight so i did the fight everything went well then after i went to do it's
called colonoscopy they put
a camera inside of you yeah and i did i got diagnosed with ulcer colitis that's
probably the mix of the
stress and also the the fact that i was constantly eating i was eating and not
only eating joe i was
trying to put on some weight it was very hard sometimes i was i remember many
times i was having
breakfast but i was regurgi regurgiating my breakfast like chewing up because
you were just eating too much
food yeah but i had to because i needed to keep myself in a certain weight and
the the crazy thing
about it is first now i realize it's a mistake i should never have done it but
when i made the weight
at 185 the day before the fight i could not go back up to 190 that's the
highest i was going back up
so the day of the fight i i woke up and i had a little breakfast i threw up my
breakfast again wow yeah
i was really messed up then i went to weigh myself i was like 190 190. wow yeah
and what do you think
mike weighed he felt very strong i mean it's not really the weight at this time
because
the way that you weigh right now depending what you eat you have a lot of stuff
inside your your
your intestine and everything so you and also water retention i felt like i had
a lot of water retention
unnecessary weight exactly so it's like dead weight it's like a bag that you
carry on your
shoulder so what i should have done i think is just stay the same way that i am
my natural weight i
think the body has a way that it's his best way to perform an athletic
performance and that's what
i should have done right but it was a mistake of my part it was a big mistake
so you were just
thinking that because you're going up to 185 and you're fighting a guy in bisping
that used to
fight at 205 exactly he's a pretty big guy exactly that i thought that to to
perform better i needed to
elevate my weight but by doing that i create my i create a big problem of
health issues so and that
colitis didn't exist before that uh not that i got diagnosed for no no and i
think that that's what
trigger it and so after the fight now that you've gone back to a normal diet
has it changed so so after
the fight what happened and it's very interesting to i got on medication and i
i met a doctor
his name is jason fong is in toronto people can research this amazing amazing
guy and i met a doctor
that that treat people with cancer and diabetes with uh intermittent fasting so
i start doing a program of
intermittent fasting and time restricted eating and now my symptoms diminish
like every every
weeks every month it diminish so he's got it's getting better it's not 100 now
but it's getting
a lot better a lot better and i feel a lot better a lot of people eat like that
now we had ben greenfield
on yesterday who uh you know he's a a journalist does a lot of experimenting
with his body done a lot a lot
of scientific stuff and scientific uh research on diet and in restricted eating
is a big part of it he
does a lot of that it's interesting because i'm we're conditioned to think that
oh i want to i want
to gain muscle i want to get you know i need to eat more to accelerate my
metabolism but but i never
felt better in my life if we would not be for that particular issue i feel
better now i i i sleep better
uh i uh inflammation and i all also did a test in january i went to mcgill
university to do
a scan of my uh my weight my purse my fat percentage my uh muscle density bone
density and my um in five
months i did it a few days ago like not not this week the tuesday of the last
week and my uh my
fat percentage has uh decreased my muscle mass has increased and my weight is
at the same then it was in
january and you think this is all from restricted eating my my training did not
have changed
so the only thing has changed pretty much is the the the the restricted
restricted uh time eating
and intermittent fasting yes yeah that intermittent fasting gives your
digestive system a break
and it lets your body recuperate better i think that that's what it helped me
uh uh mostly i think
it that's what it is uh i felt like uh i was like like i like i said like a car
i was putting too
too much for nothing and i think as human being we're over overfed i uh i'm
very interested about
paleontology and and also a history and i know that human being in enter gatherer
time they're not
eat three mil a day no they eat maybe a few times a week but when they eat they
eat a lot yeah they need
to to do it fast so i think it's more natural for a human being to do so and
also i i now i read a lot of
stuff and i watch a lot of stuff on the internet about intermittent fasting and
time restricted day
eating and i just wish i i knew that before uh for so many years i i i used to
follow the rules oh we
need to eat at least three times a day and right you know i don't really care
of what i eat but i i've
you know i even though in the morning i i was not hungry i was always my
forcing myself to eat
which is bad you know yeah what what has changed in your diet like what do you
eat like what's a what's
a normal meal for you uh no i don't really i don't really watch what i eat
anymore i i it's more when
i eat uh i try to eat lt but i don't have a specific diet i like for example
like oh tuesday i'm gonna eat
this this this yeah that's not how it works uh i just try to eat lt you know
like i i i try to eat
good and of course i don't look at oh this is a dessert i'm you know if i want
a dessert a chocolate
i'll i'll get it i remember that from one of your old uh videos like you were
having a glass of wine
during training camp you're like oh there's nothing wrong with one glass of
wine well if you think
about it joy i don't think a glass of wine or anything like you know before a
fight we have
the tendency to be too much like oh what should i eat what should i do this
should i do that i think
it's man it's two tents two tents exactly i've met when i went in thailand i
met some some world
champion thai boxer and they smoke they get drunk before the fight i'm like you're
fighting tomorrow
man it's like it's like oh it's like it's no problem but when you think about
it this is an
extreme this is to the other extreme yes but i don't think it has that much of
an effect you know what
i used to eat before like before a fight my meal of choice before i got into
reading about uh uh eating
and stuff like that i was eating uh pasta before uh before fight most of my
fight i eat like fettuccine alfredo
and that's a lot of carbs i mean it seems like yeah yeah but i mean it's it's
not bad but if you eat
if you talk to for example a nutritionist will be like oh my god he will grab
his head it will be
like are you serious oh my god mike tyson used to eat that he used to eat a
steak and pasta before his
fights that was my thing i used to eat pasta all the time and there's no
problem with that for me and i
felt great but since i i start reading about uh nutrition and stuff like that
yeah it's like oh you need
to eat clean and then i'm like it never affect me i don't think it has that
much of a big big effect
you know it's more psychological i think well it's also you think about how
much energy you're burning
you know i think for the average person a bowl of pasta is not a good idea but
for an athlete that's
about to fight five five minute rounds against a world-class fighter you have
different energy
requirements you know you have different nutrition requirements you can burn
off way more fuel you know
like i was listening to chad mendez on a podcast the other day and he was
talking about how he's so
hungry he eats so much he has to wakes up in the middle of the night and he
goes and eats sometimes
wow he just can't he can't go a couple hours without eating he just has this
crazy metabolism
you know what since i discovered time-restricted eating and intermittent
fasting now i feel better
by a training with an empty stomach i feel sharper up here i feel more creative
especially in jiu-jitsu i feel
lighter on my feet really yeah man you do like first jiu-jitsu class in the
morning no no food in
your stomach i never have a food i haven't eaten today this is the coffee you
give me is the first
thing i have so when will you eat it's 12 24 right now after this i'm gonna i'm
gonna go train with
freddie roach and then i'm gonna then you'll eat and i'll eat and maybe i'll
eat another time i'm a late
eater that's one thing i'm not too good i don't like to eat too much early
during the day yeah i'm not really
hungry i used to eat because everybody eat but now i'm like i'm not gonna eat
since i have i've
discovered this i don't eat when i when i'm not hungry and the thing is why
people eat is because
there's a spike of insulin you know yeah so when you like when i start doing
intermittent fasting and
time-restricted eating it was hard in the beginning because i was conditioned
to eat all the time yeah but
my body acclimate to it and now it's very easy i can't eat once a day it's no
problem like right now
you know i could do it and i think it's good to be hungry in a way and i
remember the doctor said
something to me he said would you rather be like a a lion that just uh had a
full belly or an angry
lion i'm like as a fighter i'd rather be like a hungry lion and it makes sense
to me if you look at
nature it makes sense you know what i mean it does make sense especially when
you do time-restricted
eating your your body gets used to burning off fat too and using fat as fuel it's
true it's true
that's why i think when i did the test to compare my uh my fat percentage
diminished and i don't have
much fat but it diminished and the doctor i met uh he says to him i said yeah i
gained a lot of weight
he said you don't you think i'm gonna lose muscle he says to me he believed
that the weight that i put
on because now i'm about one 185 pounds and i when i trained for bisping i went
up to 197 when i after
after the weigh-in i was i couldn't put back that weight up so i was 190 he
believed that the extra
weight that i had was more water retention and residual inside my in my body it
was not like a solid mass
and it makes sense to me because 