The Game Changers – A Revolution in Sports Nutrition and Performance, Part 2 of 2

While “The Game Changers” outlines the health and performance benefits of a healthy vegan diet for athletes, the film also provides evidence that humans are designed to eat plants, not to eat meat. Humans don’t have the genetic and physiological adaptations for eating meat. But we are adapted to eating plants. We have longer digestive tracts for slow digestion, including digesting the fiber in plant foods. We rely on plants to provide vitamin C because we can’t make it ourselves. In the film, Rip Esselstyn, a New York Times best-selling author, former firefighter, and a Shining World Compassion Award recipient mentors a group of firefighters who go on a vegan or “plant strong” diet for a short 7-day period. And even in such a short amount of time, they achieve remarkable health benefits, such as dramatically lowered cholesterol, weight loss and improved energy levels! Cholesterol was 276, today 169. Whoa! Now you’re talking! It’s no wonder that many doctors, specialists and health professionals are recommending the film to their patients. Dr. Josh Cullimore wrote the following for plantbasednews.org: “The Game Changers is a fantastic achievement, and I believe it will actually live up to its name… I am already recommending it to my patients, as are many other doctors across the world… My patients are always astonished - as was Wilks’ father who also adopts a plant-based diet for heart disease - that merely changing the way they eat can transform their health, and are delighted that they are put back in control of their health. It is estimated that if everyone went vegan, the worldwide economy would save $1.6 trillion by 2050, through health and social savings.” Let us now enjoy a preview of the film. “I’ve been teaching fighting techniques to government agencies for more than 15 years. Then, I got injured. Unable to teach for at least six months, I spent more than 1,000 hours studying science on recovery and nutrition, and stumbled across a study about the Roman gladiators. The gladiators were predominantly vegetarian. How could the original professional fighters be so powerful eating only plants? When I made the switch to a plant-based diet, I qualified for my third Olympic team. I broke two American records. I was like, man, I should have done this a long while ago.”