Andros Townsend has claimed he shunned medicine during his recovery from being run over – because his bizarre diet was remedy enough.
The former England international has described how he couldn’t walk out of sheer ‘agony’ after almost being crushed by a pitch roller at half-time during a match in Thailand.
But over the next day, Townsend relied on his diet – which includes slow-cooked chicken feet, olive oil, and raw cacao – to repair his body.
‘The next 24 hours were all about giving my body everything it needed to recover, while avoiding simply masking the pain through medication,’ the 35-year-old wrote
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