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Three athletes have been put to the test as they had their erections measured after switching to eating plant-based meals, in Netflix’s The Game Changers.

Originally released in June and now airing on the streaming platform, the film boasts big names as executive producers, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan and Lewis Hamilton, and talks about the misconceptions around eating meat to support physical prowess in sport.

James Wilks, who teaches fighting tactics to members of the defense forces, narrated the shebang, as the documentary looked at every facet of how our bodies are affected by plant-based diets.

While Piers Morgan might have come up against James and vegan bodybuilder Patrik Baboumian recently, fans have been praising the ‘honest’ look at what meat-eating does to our bodies, without showing grim images of slaughterhouses.


Arnold opened up on his own diet changes (Picture: Netflix)

The coverage showed the change plant-based diets had on the quality of athlete’s blood and the endurance they had on the field or in the gym. But it was one particular scene which tested the erections of athletes that took things to a whole other level.



Dr Aaron Spitz, lead delegate of the American Urological Association conducted the study, as he said: ‘When I think of a manly man, I think of someone who has strength, endurance, sexual prowess and fertility.

‘In fact, what the scientific studies are showing, is that the more meat men eat, the more quickly they lose their…manly manhood.’

The doc explained the study (Picture: Netflix)

Three collegiate athletes were measured during the night, donning a pair of rings that went on the base of the penis and the other went on the tip, tracking the strength, longevity and number of erections over two nights.

Fed a burrito either made up of beef, chicken or pork on the first night, the men were measured, before then eating a plant-based burrito with vegan versions of the meat for the second night.

The results…well…the results had them giggling.

Mason read his results first, with a graph showing the bigger the circumference of the circle score, the harder his erection. When comparing the two nights, he had nearly a 9% increase in the strength of his member after eating plant-based.

Vegan athletes showed off their strength (Picture: Netflix)

Then, when it came to how many minutes a night he was having erections, we’re talking a 303% increase.

That was nothing on Blake, the second athlete, who saw a 477% difference in how many minutes he had an erection on a plant based diet.

The other Blake (yes, two Blakes) had a 13% change in the hardness off his erection. When it came to how many minutes, he had a 312% increase.

‘That’s, like, an hour!’ second Blake giggled, as the rest of the panel descended into laughs about their improved erections after ditching meat for just a night.

They couldn’t contain their giggles (Picture: the game changers)

Viewers had a laugh along with them, as one took to Twitter to speak about that scene in particular.

‘The scene in #TheGameChangers, showing how those athletes had bigger/longer lasting erections from just one plant based meal killed me…’ they wrote.

‘If only people with penises would realise how good a plant based diet is for you…’

Arnold Schwarzenegger also weighed in on switching to a vegetarian diet, explaining in his early days of bodybuilding he was a big meat eater.

‘I ate a lot of meat, I ate my 10-15 eggs a day and you know had my 250g of protein a day because I weighed 250 pounds,’ the Terminator star explained.



‘But as I got older and read up on it I recognised the fact you really don’t have to get your protein from meat or animals. So we started going more in the direction of a vegetarian diet.’

Speaking about using the right spices in his veggie diet, Arnie added: ‘Now I love it much more than the meat.

This guy is 60 (Picture: Netflix)

‘The cholesterol went down…it was the lowest it’s been in my entire life, at almost 69.’

He continued about the marketing of meat: ‘There is no one that can relate to it better than I do, I’ve been involved in that world, “Steak is for man”. They show these commercial, burgers, George Foreman with the grill…

‘This is great, great marketing for the meat industry. Selling that idea that real man eat meat. But you got to understand that’s marketing, that’s not based on reality.’

He noted it’s not easy to give up meat gold turkey (pun intended), and he wasn’t imploring everyone to go vegan now or else…like a lot of vegans do.

‘If you go to people and say, “you must stop eating meat”, they’ll say “f*ck you, who the f*ck are you to tell me how to eat”.

‘But if you explain it, say, “Hey, why don’t you try once a week, chill with the meat.”’

The Game Changers is on Netflix now.

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