{"id":1389,"date":"2023-11-13T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graciezug.ch\/en\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:13:13","slug":"what-is-the-gracie-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graciezug.ch\/en\/what-is-the-gracie-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Gracie Diet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Grandmaster Carlos Gracie developed the Gracie diet. This is a special nutritional method which, just like BJJ<\/a>, is still very popular several decades after its creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The story of the Gracie diet is based on the saying: Let your food be your medicine. Carlos Gracie was guided by this saying when he developed the special nutritional method that enjoys great popularity among Brazilian Jiu Jitsu<\/a> martial artists. He was one of those who were convinced of the effect of food on the human body and mind. According to him, nutrition<\/a> should fulfill the following three tasks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The lesser-known story of Carlos Gracie’s first wife, Carmen, serves as real proof of the success of the Gracie diet. She contracted tuberculosis<\/a>, which was usually fatal. In the past, tuberculosis patients were isolated. They were also not allowed to receive visitors. As a result, Carlos decided to take his wife to a mountain town in Brazil. According to him, she was to spend the last days of her life in a sanatorium. However, it did not stay that way. He gave his wife a kiss on the lips. At the time, this gesture with a tuberculosis patient was tantamount to suicide. When the sanatorium staff asked him about it, the grandmaster of Gracie Jiu Jitsu<\/a> replied that he was immune to the Koch’s bacillus. That is why people celebrated him as a hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suffering from a severe migraine himself, which forced him to lie down in a dark room for several hours, the Grandmaster of Brazilian Jiu Jits<\/a>u realized that he had to change something fundamental. He therefore studied the words of the Greek philosopher Hippocrates “Let thy food be thy medicine” more intensively.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe history of the Gracie diet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n