Brady doubles down on his medical beliefs

[BradyFTW!]

All the talk on the radio is now about this. *Sigh*. Well at least this one isn't about cheating. Just that Tom is crazy and is further damaging his image.

Not saying Guerrero isn't a shady fellow but still...more negative press. It is tiresome.

The funny thing is, most of what he said wasn't crazy at all. Yeah, suggesting that head trauma is avoidable by some means other than "not getting hit in the head" is kinda dumb. He should stop suggesting that, and may have just misspoke. But everything he said about diet, lifestyle, being proactive rather than reactive, etc. - that's all just objectively true. And if Brady wants to sit there and tell us that there are better ways to handle wear and tear on a football player's body than annual arthroscopic surgeries and packing ice onto your limbs after the damage is done, then it's crazy not to hear him out.

The food/drink thing will probably end up being most controversial, but it's absolutely true. It's proven fact; the **** that's most heavily marketed to us is basically poison. It's designed to be cheaply made and addictive, and nutrition, if it's a consideration at all, falls far, far behind. I'm not going to sit here and claim that I have a perfect lifestyle, I enjoy fried foods, whiskey and beer way too much for that. But just the simple changes that I have made over the past 5 years or so--removing soda from my diet, avoiding foods with a ton of ingredients I can't pronounce, basing my diet as much as possible on vegetables and lean meats--has my body functioning much better on every level than it did when I was 25.

The major companies manufacturing our food are in many cases the very same ones that told us cigarettes had no detrimental health effects as recently as 20-25 years ago. They're perfectly willing to kill their consumers in the name of profit, and they've proven it over and over again. The obesity rate in this country is just further proof of it.

 

[aluminum seats]

Hey, whatever works for him, I guess.

You can never really extrapolate too much from one person's habits… It's like when someone turns 100 and they say, she ate bacon every day of her life! So it's hardly scientific.

Also, I love Coke. Not much of a frosted flakes guy, but I'd be happy to discuss some other sugar cereals. Haven't killed me yet.

 

[BradyFTW!]

WTF? You don't have even the slightest clue what you are talking about. People like you are the immoral quacks throwing around comments like this.

Just to be clear, you think it wasn't immoral of Guerrero to market a nutritional supplement to cancer and AIDs sufferers as a miracle cure, while falsely claiming that he was a doctor?

I don't think any less of Brady for all of this, in fact I think more of him for it. Most of what he's saying is just objective truth, and I'm glad he takes health so seriously. We're very lucky he does, because if he didn't there's a good chance he wouldn't be our QB right now.

But that doesn't change Guerrero's track record. Even if he's reversed course and is now entirely on the up and up and no longer selling snake oil to desperately ill people, that kind of past speaks for itself.

 

[BradyFTW!]

If you only knew what elite athletes do to gain an edge for their performance. Read up on Lebron, Kobe, and many many others. They have some really far out stuff that they do to keep their body right.

Brady hitting the "flax oil" isn't any different than Lebrons naps/Kobes polyphasic sleep or whatever their chefs are cooking up under their nutrionists advice, swiss knee treatments.... blah blah. Its taken on a life of its own simply because Brady is invested in it (personally and financially) and his teammates have consistently ribbed him for it. Nothing more or less.

PRPT (Kobe's knee treatment that you were referring to) is really cool and looks super promising. The whole theory behind it makes a lot of sense, and addresses what's been a problem area in human biology (how the hell do you promote healing in areas that get no blood flow?) for as long as humans have existed. I really like that athletes are doing it now, because that means it'll be an everyday element of accepted medicine by the time my joints start to go.

The stuff works, and we're seeing it now on all the athletes whose primes and overall careers are getting extended by years. While Kobe appears to have been one of the first, I'm willing to bet that almost every NBA player with knee problems/over the age of 32 or so has thought about taking an offseason trip to Germany, and wouldn't surprise me at all if the majority have gone through with it.

 

[Wheelman]

I hate Stallone for making a mockery of Motorsports with his movie Driven.

I like Tom Cruise movies. He also got to drive a recent Formula 1 car at Willow Springs. Lucky guy! David Coulthard was impressed with his memory recall. He was 5-6 seconds off the pace though which is a massive amount in terms of racing but not surprising considering he's not a seasoned pro race car driver.

As for all this medical stuff. I'm always interested in improving my short and long term health but I don't like being the guinea pig.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Tom makes s ton of sense. The world is now run by immoral corporations many of whom sell products that are harmful to people. Sugar sugar sugar. Alcohol. Splenda. Saturated fat. Calorie overload.

There no mysticism here. If you eat differently, exercise properly, stretch, practice mental exercises, you will outlast Peyton Manning.

I don't know what the allegations are against this Alex Guerrero, but afte DeflateGate, I am much more cynical about what gets published as fact and keep more of an open mind.

In any case, I have always wondered what Brady wanted to do after football. Maybe the cause of youth health will be part of it. If so, I applaud it.

Ironically, actually putting sugar in our food would be an improvement. Right now it's all HFCS, since all that corn that's grown for the huge corporate welfare subsidies has to be used somehow. And now that consumers are becoming informed and taking issue with HFCS, the solution is to... rebrand it as corn sugar, to make it harder for Americans to know what's going into their bodies.

 

[VectorPrime]

People here are misunderstanding the situation. There is nothing wrong with Brady training with this guy. Whether his instruction actually does anything is debatable, but if it makes Tom feel better than I'm all for it. The issue is that Tom is in business with him, endorsing products made by a guy who blatantly took advantage of terminally ill people to make a quick buck. It's not a good look.

 

[tasmlab]

I would've thought it taboo in the industry to knock Superbowl sponsors.

I take it Brady didn't want the Pappa Johns endorsement deal.

 

[BTTA]

Two points here:

(1) Antibiotics (though not antifungals) don't have a direct impact on the immune system. They're supposed to attack the bacteria in ways that do not impact humans. [The exception to this is anti-fungals, which tend to have the worst side effects, because fungi are far more similar to we humans than are bacteria.]

And yet, they do impact humans. They kill more than the infecting bacteria in our systems. We each have beneficial bacteria and yeast living within our intestines. These microbes compete for nutrients from the food we eat. Usually, the strength in the numbers of beneficial bacteria keeps the yeasts in check and causes them to produce nutrients such as the B vitamins. However, every time we swallow antibiotics, we kill those beneficial bacteria . This upsets the delicate balance in our intestines. We are only just beginning to understand how all that works, but it follows that through a reduction in digestive effectiveness, every system in the body is compromised.

A buddy with lyme disease infection has had a massive antibiotic regime for several years. He's a PhD chemist, brilliant inventor, and is convinced that if he hadn't artificially replaced the bacteria in his gut, he'd be close to dead from the consequences of the antibiotics by now.

(2) The biggest problem with antibiotics in medicine may be people insisting on them to fight viral infections (they are useless) and/or not taking the full course when prescribed. That said, nationwide, we actually use more antibiotics on farm animals than we do in humans (for reasons that aren't entirely clear, they promote growth in the animals).

It is well established now that a large portion of people won't complete the full course, thus strengthening the bacteria. This is consistently ignored by policy makers when deciding on the role of antibiotics in medicine.

Fortunately, the farm animal use is about to decline dramatically.

And what should we call the MD's that are prescribing the antibiotics to patients to fight viral infections?

 

[Deus Irae]

People here are misunderstanding the situation. There is nothing wrong with Brady training with this guy. Whether his instruction actually does anything is debatable, but if it makes Tom feel better than I'm all for it. The issue is that Tom is in business with him, endorsing products made by a guy who blatantly took advantage of terminally ill people to make a quick buck. It's not a good look.

Since you probably know almost nothing about what actually went down, you might want to ease back on the "blatantly took advantage..." stuff.

 

[SVN]

http://www.csnne.com/new-england-patriots/curran-who-alex-guerrero-heres-what-i-know

good read on his personal experience.

 

[The Brandon Five]

I'm a healthcare professional so I'm usually a little biased. I prefer to look at things from a biological/physiological standpoint and utilize the best evidence-based research. That being said, the foundation of Brady's viewpoints here are reasonable and common sense. Stop eating junk food, don't smoke, stretch, and get plenty of exercise and you can potentially live a long, healthy life. Some of the other stuff regarding certain supplements and treatments I would consider hippie bs, but the bare bones of it are accurate. In our country we do have serious, widespread health problems that are starting at younger ages now. American lifestyle is a major contributing factor as we eat terrible and sit on our asses too much. We do need to be more proactive in that aspect, especially with teaching kids healthy habits.

 

[The Brandon Five]

Last night Felger was back in full Brady-bashing mode. I think he is Goodell's side piece.

 

[robbomango]

Listening to EEi they talked to a guy who was involved with his situation. It sounded like this Marketing guy Bennet? was the true snake oil salesman, this is how he sold various products. He had a pitch on how to sell Geurrero's product and Alex went along with it. Sounds like very poor judgement from a young naive guy to me. The guy on EEi said Alex seemed like a good guy and put most of the blame on Bennet? I only caught parts of the interview so that was my gist....

 

[Oswlek]

Last night Felger was back in full Brady-bashing mode. I think he is Goodell's side piece.

Bob Ryan looked like he was busting out his Mark Brunell impression.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Bob Ryan looked like he was busting out his Mark Brunell impression.

OT: re: Ryan. He has lost a ton of weight. He looked really skinny.

 

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[Oswlek]

OT: re: Ryan. He has lost a ton of weight. He looked really skinny.

I saw him at a dance recital recently (he wasn't on stage ) and he didn't look very good. I hope he's not dealing with anything. Maybe he should talk to Alex Guerrero?

 

[RobertWeathers]

I saw him at a dance recital recently (he wasn't on stage ) and he didn't look very good. I hope he's not dealing with anything. Maybe he should talk to Alex Guerrero?

Don't know. Hes pushing 70. Might be real careful with his diet.

 

[bruce_w]

Just to be clear, you think it wasn't immoral of Guerrero to market a nutritional supplement to cancer and AIDs sufferers as a miracle cure, while falsely claiming that he was a doctor?

I don't think any less of Brady for all of this, in fact I think more of him for it. Most of what he's saying is just objective truth, and I'm glad he takes health so seriously. We're very lucky he does, because if he didn't there's a good chance he wouldn't be our QB right now.

But that doesn't change Guerrero's track record. Even if he's reversed course and is now entirely on the up and up and no longer selling snake oil to desperately ill people, that kind of past speaks for itself.

No I don't think Guerrero is immoral and he wasn't selling snake oil. The business operations did have some issues that's why Brady said there was more to that story. As far as the product the only approve method of treating cancer by US government is chemotherapy. Gerson successfully treated cancer 80 years ago and his daughter is still doing it. In Mexico, because they won't let her do it here.