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Game Changers
2018 · Film · documentary · 96 min
Directed by J. Craig Thompson
Alex Trebek hosts a documentary about television game shows featuring interviews with a number of game show hosts and producers.
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The boner measurement may seem weird, but it’s a very informative measure of general health, vascular health, and a few other things.
My friend who worked in a sleep lab as a student was tasked with measuring several aspects of boners. The Netflix movie “game changers” (or “you are what you eat”, don’t remember) also used these measurements to drive a point.
It is not any weirder than a urine test or fecal analysis, which we all take for granted when looking for specific markers (e.g. protein in urine or occult blood in feces). It is, however, much cheaper and easier to carry out in a daily basis.
These "puzzled and alarmed" Doctors need to watch the Netflix documentaries: "What the Health" and "Game Changers". There are others too, including 'Forks and Knives". They will realize what the big pharma and animal products industries are up to. Plant-based diets save health and lives. Wish I knew this much earlier on.
These "puzzled and alarmed" Doctors need to watch the Netflix documentaries: "What the Health" and "Game Changers". There are others too, including 'Forks and Knives". They will realize what the big pharma and animal products industries are up to.
> a pound of soy protein won't have the same effect on your body as a pound of meat proteins.
True. Eating meat will raise your inflammation markers by 70%.
> nutrients and their bio availability (e.g. iron and B12)
Fe3 from animal sources has a better uptake by the body. Fe2 from plants is good enough if you combine it with Vitamin C. Parsley contains both.
Animals in conventional agriculture have to be fed B12, for them to stay healthy and their meat to contain any. The B12 producing bacteria in the soil get killed by pesticides.
The 83% of farmland which is used to feed and raise animals taken together is the size of Africa.
Source: Game Changers, the movie [0]. Highly recommended, stopped cooking wirh organic meat, i take B12 directly instead. If someone else cooks for me, i still eat meat and enjoy it. Knowing full well that it damages my body, like alcohol and sugar. Completly banning fun sounds awful.
As a side note, I found Game Changers dishonest about being able to be in an extremely competitive athletic field and eat a vegan diet.
For instance, if you look at the diet of the strong man they featured, you'll see he supplements his diet with protein shakes in 4 out of 6 meals between 50-80 grams of protein which isn't mentioned in the documentary. I'm sure a lot of aspects of his lifestyle are unhealthy since he's in an extreme field, but you can't claim vegan diet gives you enough protein for a competitive athlete when you supplement almost every meal with a shake. And I can't imagine that's somehow better for you than eating natural protein. Compare that to what strong man Thor Bjornsson eats, you'll see its a lot fewer protein supplements and more natural food
https://barbend.com/vegan-strongman-patrik-baboumian-diet/
https://barbend.com/hafthor-bjornsson-diet-video/
if you didn't say this i was going to.
I've been in the camp of eating less meat for a while for general health, and i have a lot of concerns about factory farming.
But Game Changers straight up lies all over the place. It's a horrible documentary.
I have nothing against vegans, but the "Game Changers" movie is biased propaganda promoting a particular narrative. It is not a valid source of scientific facts. They cherry picked a few anecdotes, and even some of the movie subjects consume certain animal products such as eggs.
I turned vegan after watching Game Changers: https://gamechangersmovie.com/the-film/where-to-watch/
It was made by a guy who trains soldiers in deadly unarmed combat. He got injured and read that a vegan diet could speed up recovery. Instead of trying to convince with ethical concerns, it gave me plenty of sound logical reasons to eat vegan.
The reason for me to eat organic meat was B12, but 39% of the people eating meat still have a B12 deficiency.
80% of farmland is used for animal husbandry, the size of Africa! We can feed way more than seven billion, if we farm more efficient.
And when the strongest man in the world got there being vegan, i can skip animal products too.
There’s the big China study you can use as a starting point. If you want a catchy movie check out game changers, it’s flashy but deals specifically with athletes.