#david perlmutter

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I prefer my Theories to be fact-based & logical. This one isn’t. I’ve been waiting for more evidence to confirm or refute what I intuitively suspect. No facts have surfaced but I’ve decided to share this anyway.

I got my first inkling in March when Sara Squyres shared this odd IG-Story. I wondered why she was bragging to Emil about cutting back on her screen time.

But it made me notice Emil also stopped regular IG posting in mid-January around the same time Aarika did. Since then he has only allowed himself one ego-boosting post a month, which shows extreme restraint on his part. 

That was one data dot & the next one happened toward the end of April. Out of boredom, I went scrolling down Adam’s IG Follows, clicking on them to see who they were. And there I found David Perlmutter, MD. 

Gawd, Adam does love alternative medicine advocates who claim to be science-based & Perlmutter is the current bestselling king of snake-oil salesmen. But don’t judge him by my impression of his ideas. Here’s a review of his first book by The Health Sciences Academy.  And here’s a more devastating take down, titled The Problem With David Perlmutter. The guy is a charlatan who not only promises “miracle cures” he also sells expensive shit to his gullible followers.

As Perlmutter’s megaphone has grown, so, too, has his brand empire — he has sold everything from “Empowering Coconut Oil” to supplement blends tailored for specific demographics, like the $90 “Scholar’s Advantage Pack” for “young adults seeking to optimize cognitive function,” and the $160 “Senior Empowerment Pack,” a “combination of formulas designed to help keep you cognitively sharp as you age.” One book pointed readers to an $8,500 brain detoxification retreat run by Perlmutter, which included shamanic healing ceremonies. (He even has his own organic foaming hand soap.)

SO...Perlmutter’s latest book is titled Brain Wash & the basic premise is social media is bad for you. No kidding. Apparently interacting via the internet is affecting your brain’s chemistry & that causes bad decision-making. But, never fear, Perlmutter has 10-step Program to help you stop, pricey nutritional supplements & an expensive workshop including a private one-on-one session w/ him to correct this condition you didn’t know you had. 

Bob - Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead Pegasus - Robin McKinley Brain Maker - David Perlmutter Grain Brain - David Perlmutter Braving the Wilderness - Brene Brown

Bold = Highly Recommend Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: I am not sure exactly why, but this year has been very slow for me with physical reads, April especially. The only physical book I finished was Pegasus, which I loved, but I just couldn’t move through it quickly. Thank goodness for audiobooks, but that means my percentage of non-fiction reads is much higher so far this year. 

(2/3) „The dialogue exhibited a level of literacy that might startle those who think that all Saturday-morning cartoonery is brainless; there weren’t many other programs in which one would hear a middle-schooler congratulate her comrades by proclaiming „Kudos to us.“ Nor was there an abundance of animated series wherein a nervous preteen drama queen was shepherded through her first important stage appearance by the ghost of William Shakespeare. [...]"

(3/3, sorry for the split, anyways, here's the rest of his quote:) "Particularly pleasing was the series’ depiction of its adult characters – not as the [...] rule-imposing tyrants we’d seen in so many other cartoon weeklies, but instead as recognizable human beings with affectionately detailed personality quirks.“ I feel like there is another great GIF-collection in this quote, isn’t there?