Chris Paul Goes Plant-Based After Working on The Game Changers

Houston Rockets point guard Chris Paul has gone plant-based. The nine-time NBA All-Star made the switch at 34 after getting involved with The Game Changers, the plant-based sports documentary that premiered at Sundance last year, where he's one of the new executive producers on the film.

Paul says he made the change with performance in mind, and it's a big change from how he used to eat. He told GQ he used to think nothing of a burger before a game:

When I came into the league, it was nothing for me to have a burger and fries or chicken wings and fries before a game. When you're that young, you don't know. I probably still went out and had 30.

These days breakfast is more likely to be a plant-based scramble with vegetables and fruit, and dinner is beans, grains and veg from his chef. He says cutting inflammation has made a real difference to how his body recovers after games.

For Paul, it's about investing in the one thing money can't buy:

When it comes to health and wellness, the one thing we can't purchase is health. You can buy cars, houses, clothes, and jewelry but not health.

Paul joins a growing plant-based crowd in the NBA. Kyrie Irving starred in a Nike advert promoting his vegan diet last year, and vegan center JaVale McGee won back-to-back titles with Golden State. When The Game Changers first premiered we called it the most important movie of 2018, and it keeps winning converts. Last week 42-year-old Zdeno Chara scored in the Stanley Cup Final on a mostly plant-based diet.

Welcome to the team, CP3.