By Melanie Hoffmann, medical editor | September 25, 2023, 2:30 p.m
Baseball legend Alex Rodriguez, also known as A-Rod, has turned his life around. After gaining so much weight that it was apparently already affecting his health, the ex-professional athlete lost 14 kilos. Now he has revealed how he achieved this.
Many people will know him primarily as the ex-fiancé of superstar Jennifer Lopez. The 48-year-old was in a relationship with the singer from 2017 to 2021. Sports fans who are also enthusiastic about American sports heroes know Alex Rodriguez as a baseball legend who played – on and off – for the New York Yankees for ten years. His active career has been behind him for a while now, which probably also had a physical impact: he gained weight and became unfit. But then the ex-professional athlete pulled the ripcord, embarked on a “health journey” and lost significant weight. Alex Rodriguez achieved this primarily through changes in his diet.
Alex Rodriguez lost 15 kilograms
Alex Rodriguez impressed on Instagram with a before and after comparison. While in an earlier picture he had a fuller face and obviously belly fat, in a current photo you can no longer see any of this. While the sports star is tanning in the sun on a boat in swimming trunks, it is clear that he has lost a lot of weight – 32 pounds to be precise, the equivalent of around 15 kilograms.
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“I looked unhealthy”
The decisive factor in A-Rod turning his life around was the concern of those around him. The 48-year-old revealed in the Instagram post in question: “At the end of 2021, my family pointed out to me that I looked unhealthy. That’s not what you like to hear, but I knew I wasn’t at my best.” With the help of his friend, trained nurse and fitness expert Jaclyn Cordeiro, he set about the goal of becoming healthier and fitter . Even small changes in everyday life have a big impact, as he revealed, now 15 kilos lighter.
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez were a couple from 2017 to 2021. Photo: Getty Images
Diet changes helped Alex Rodriguez lose weight
“It came down to making some important adjustments in my habits,” the baseball player explained on social media. Two such lifestyle changes affected Alex Rodriguez’s diet: “1. More plants and less red meat. 2. Intermittent fasting.” The athlete is particularly popular with intermittent fasting. This fasting variant is popular with many celebrities. Whether Jennifer Aniston, Mark Wahlberg or, in an extreme form (OMAD or “one meal a day”), even “The Boss” Bruce Springsteen – they all like to rely on intermittent fasting for their health and fitness.
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How the 16:8 interval fasting variant came about
16:8 stands for the form of intermittent fasting, in which you abstain from food for 16 hours, followed by an eight-hour window in which you can eat healthily. The fact that the time split is exactly 16 to 8 and not 15 to 9 has a funny background. It was created by chance during a mouse study. This was revealed by renowned researcher Dr. Satchin Panda in a FITBOOK interview.
“The thing about the 16-hour fasting window originally comes from our laboratory,” says the expert. “It had no empirical basis.” The reason was the German doctoral student Christopher Vollmers, who was also involved in the mouse study. “Christopher had a new girlfriend. And this friend had set the condition that he was not allowed to spend more than nine hours in the laboratory.” For this reason, it was practical to limit the feeding phase to eight hours.
Health journey changed his life
When it comes to fitness, Alex Rodriguez seems to have mainly worked on consistency, in the form of regular night walks. “Small changes led to big results and I feel better than ever,” said Rodriguez, while also thanking his girlfriend for her support. “Thank you @jac_lynfit for guiding and supporting me. You coached me to stay committed and motivated and to improve every day.”
While the lifestyle changes due to weight loss are physically noticeable on the one hand, they obviously had a much greater effect on Alex Rodriguez. This is made clear by the words he began his Instagram message with: “This is a vulnerable post, but I’m sharing it anyway because the last year of my health journey has changed my life.”
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Health problems
In June, he revealed in an interview with the US health portal “Healthline” that he was suffering from periodontitis (periodontitis). This is a periodontitis that can develop as a result of an unnoticed gum infection. Since the bacterial infection does not initially cause any symptoms, if left untreated for a long time it can lead to tooth loss. “I was honestly surprised. “I take good care of my teeth – I brush and floss every day,” Alex Rodriguez said. “I think there’s this idea that we think if you chew tobacco, eat sunflower seeds or chew gum, all of which are synonymous with baseball players, that must be the cause, but that’s not true, it can happen to anyone.”
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