Liam Hemsworth Needed Surgery that Forced Him to ‘Completely Rethink’ His Vegan Diet

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The year 2020 is not going the way most people had planned. And in Liam Hemsworth’s case, he’s still recovering from a difficult 2019 that included surgery for a painful kidney stone and a divorce from Miley Cyrus

The experience led him to reexamine several parts of his life, and he started with his vegan diet.

“I was vegan for almost four years, and then February of last year I was feeling lethargic. Then I got a kidney stone. It was one of the most painful weeks of my life. I was doing press for Isn’t It Romantic. But I had to go to the hospital and get surgery,” Hemsworth, 30, told Men’s Health for their May cover.

The actor said that “it’s all good now,” but that he had to lower his vegetable intake.

“Once you get one kidney stone, you have a 50 percent chance of getting another one if you continue eating the way you were eating,” he explained. “Well, my particular kidney stone was a calciumoxalate kidney stone. It forms from having too much oxalate in your diet. Oxalates are really high in a lot of vegetables, specifically spinach, almonds, beetroot, potatoes. Every morning, I was having five handfuls of spinach and then almond milk, almond butter, and also some vegan protein in a smoothie. And that was what I considered super healthy. So I had to completely rethink what I was putting in my body.”
Liam Hemsworth Men's Health

https://people.com/health/liam-hemsworth-needed-surgery-that-forced-him-to-completely-rethink-his-vegan-diet/

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Hemsworth said that he tends to “go from one extreme to the other,” and that was how he initially became vegan. He learned that while certain diets or workouts can be touted as healthy, “You have to figure out what works best for your body.”

“If something works well for a period, great, keep doing it. If something changes and you’re not feeling great, you’ve got to reassess it and then figure it out.”

Hemsworth said, though, that working out kept him going through the difficulty of the last year.

“Honestly, the past six months…I’d say exercise and fitness is a big thing for me to just feel balanced and level headed,” he said.

What those workouts entail changes depending on his current project. Hemsworth spent the end of 2019 filming the movie Most Dangerous Game, and it was “extremely physical.”

“I spent most of the project running and getting beaten up. It was just brutal. I leaned out a lot,” he said. “Running is so jarring. Your knees, your ankles, your lower back. After that I teamed up with Jason Walsh, who owns Rise Nation in West Hollywood. We do high-intensity stuff, a mix of calisthenics, sled pulls, sled pushes, and lots and lots of free weights.”


He’s also worked on his mental health by learning to let things go. Hemsworth said that after his breakup with Cyrus, the constant paparazzi and tabloid obsession “was very stressful.”

“From my point of view, the majority of the time things that are written about me are completely false. There are times when you want to speak up and there are other times when it’s not worth it, because you’re just going to draw more attention to it, and then it’s better to just not think about it and let it all wash away,” he said.

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“These days I don’t want to invest any more time in worrying about that sort of stuff. I remind myself of what to appreciate now and to enjoy every moment as much as possible, whether that be working or with my family or whatever I’m doing. Just trying to find a positive in it all and enjoy life as much as possible.”

[Anonymous No.13926577]

I exclusively eat raw beef

[Anonymous No.13926619]

Based, i eat whatever is delicious and the only things i suffer from are my fingers stinking of garlic

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>>13926527
Literally who?: the celebrity adopts idiotic diet, needs medical attention

In other news, water is wet

p.s. carnism is still mental illness

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>>13926577
based
steak tartare is dope

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He looks like Gerard Butler and John Travolta had a retarded kid

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>>13926527
I had an oxalate stone removed last month. This diet is fucking ass. I want spinach, I want bread, I want potatoes, I want nuts, I want chocolate but no. Because I'm so much more likely to get them, I basically can't have them at all. Calcium helps, but it isn't a 1:1 conversion rate, there's no guarantee that they'll bind. Fuck you, me.

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Is there a good way to avoid kidney stones? It seems like it's always due to over eating something for a long time.

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>>13926723
Balancing your diet. There's a lot of conflicting or incomplete information out there about oxalate content(not the only stone type, but the most common) so you pretty much just have to pick one and hope you're doing it right. I use this for info: https://kidneystones.uchicago.edu/how-to-eat-a-low-oxalate-diet/
However, if you've never had stones you don't really need to worry about a low oxalate diet, specifically. You can still have occasional high and medium ox foods but for prevention's sake it's a good idea to monitor the high ox foods an your intake.

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>>13926723
just include dairy lmao

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>>13926734
I've heard it also comes from too much calcium in your diet, not sure if that's true. My stepdad got one when I was younger. Think he claimed it was from using too much sugar in coffee. He hasn't had one since at least.

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>>13926527
HE WAS NEVER VEGAN REEEEEEE!!!!!
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DIE FOR THE ANIMALS REEEEEEEEE!

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>>13926773
It can come from excess calcium too, yeah, but it's less likely in most cases. I guess you can get it from sugar in your coffee, but he'd have to be drinking a shitload of coffee with a shitload of sugar for that specifically to be an issue.

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>>13926527
I am really confused here. Why did this idiot quit the healthiest diet known to man?? I thought the Vegan diet was clearly proven by science???

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>>13926785
Yeah I'm not too sure about the sugar thing too. My dad just got diabetes from eating too much sugar all his life. Guess it just depends on the body.

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>>13926723
Drink more beer

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>>13926808
Yes and no. While beer can help flush the kidneys, the storage method can affect how much it helps deal with stones. Bottled beer is usually the best way to go, with draft not being very helpful vs oxalates.

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>>13926527
>and a divorce from Miley Cyrus
how many times does she have to teach you this lesson old man

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>fad diets cause health problems
>balanced diets solve them
Wow, who would've thought?

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>>13926847
Not gonna lie I thought these Hollywood cucks were just pretending to be vegan.

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>>13926904
>Not gonna lie I thought these Hollywood cucks were just pretending to be vegan.

The only way to verify if someone was truly vegan is when they get incredibly sick and need an operation.

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>>13926527
Weird. I haven't gotten any kidney stones but my meat eating family has.
but I'm eating beans and rice and processed vegan food so I guess that's why, no spinach

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>>13927035
>I'm eating beans and rice and processed vegan food so I guess that's why
Beans are high in oxalates, and some kinds of rice can put you at moderate risk.

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>>13927042
Oh but I still dont have kidney stones...? I ate lots of beans and rice as a omnivore too. I'll keep doing it no issues yet

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>>13927056
It could be a number of factors, just that diet is typically the biggest cause.

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>>13926527
This is why I think it's just really important to have a balanced diet. It's ok to have a little of everything and to keep your foods varied.

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>>13927125
Americans don't do anything in a balanced and moderate way.

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bump

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>>13926904
This guy isn't really a celebrity, just a low tier scrub by association with Miley Cyrus. So they probably are just pretending and he was merely out of the loop.