The award-winning documentary on Netflix, The Game Changers, promotes the controversial message that “vegan is best.” In fact, the documentary not only proposes a vegan diet for better health, it also pushes it as most ideal for exceptionally performing athletes as well.
While far from being mainstream, the diet has been embraced by some young athletes. One of them is Héctor Bellerín, “the world’s best dressed footballer,” according to High snobiety. He is very vocal about the benefits he enjoys from a plant-based diet. Bellerín just transferred from FC Barcelona to Sporting Clube de Portugal a few days ago.
It was in 2016 when Bellerín shifted to a vegan diet. Fans were alarmed then that it might affect his performance. A little over his mid-20s, the Spanish athlete was recently on the cover of GQ Spain as one of 2022’s men of the year. He has also been featured in the British editions of Vogue, GQ and Esquire. Bellerín mentioned in an interview that he was always bothered by inflammation of his ankles. They would get sore after hard games. He noticed that when he went vegan, the inflammation and pain went away, so he doesn’t strap his ankles anymore. At the onset, he just wanted to be vegan as a detox strategy. However, he felt so great and renewed from the change. And that’s why he made it a part of his lifestyle.
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