Brendan Brazier

The cornerstone of the Thrive Diet is high net-gain foods. It’s that simple. By eating more high net-gain foods, your energy will rise, body fat will decrease, mental clarity will be enhanced, and cravings for refined foods will fade.

The Thrive Diet will potentially eliminate up to 40 percent of the total stress on the average North American’s body.

Complementary stress can build physical strength and improve motivation.

Once diet is improved, production stress can be embraced, and productivity will therefore be enhanced.

Improved diet is the number one way to reduce overall stress.

As a general rule, the less that has been done to your food, the better its return will be.

I am often asked how I am able to gain and maintain strength and lean muscle, and have an abundance of energy for high-performance training, while eating fewer calories than most people. One of the most important factors is that I select food with the net-gain concept in mind rather than by the conventional calorie-counting method.

For enzyme health, it would be ideal for all of us to eat only raw, organic food the day it’s harvested, not be exposed to any environmental pollutants, and to live a stress free life. Obviously, this is not realistic. But we can enhance our enzyme intake and production.

The amount of oil Americans consume could be reduced by up to 30 percent if we were eating an energy efficient diet.

The most complete, balanced form of one-step nutrition is sprouted foods.