The Game Changers Movie Review: Separating Fact from Fiction

About this Video

The Game Changers is a persuasive film that has many convinced a plant-based diet will transform their body into a super-human, sprouting new blood vessels, accelerating recovery and giving rise to more spontaneous erections, among others.

We unpack these sensational claims and discuss what, if any truth, are behind them.

Studies Mentioned

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de Vries, M. A., Klop, B., Janssen, H. W., Njo, T. L., Westerman, E. M., & Cabezas, M. C. (2014). Postprandial Inflammation: Targeting Glucose and Lipids. In Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Non-communicable Diseases – Molecular Mechanisms and Perspectives in Therapeutics (Vol. 824, pp. 161–170). Cham: Springer, Cham.