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Science Check: You Can Fix Your Brain by Tom O'Bryan

Number of citations checked: 51 Number of pages read: 68 Fidelity score: 2.8 Takeaway: Severe accuracy concerns with science translation and citation practices. Summary * The book makes plenty of bold claims that don't carry citations at all. For example, a page-and-a-half description of the

Science Check: Gut and Physiology Syndrome by Natasha Campbell-McBride

Number of citations checked: 212 Number of pages read: 50 Fidelity score: 2.4 Takeaway: Severe accuracy concerns for science translation and citation practices. Summary * This is a follow-up book by the creator of the GAPS diet. * Most claims in the book are not supported (or are directly contradicted)

Science Check: Brain Maker by David Perlmutter

Number of citations checked: 103 Number of pages read: 70 Fidelity score: 2.0 Takeaway: Severe accuracy concerns with science translation and citation practices. Summary * The book mostly relies on non-scientific sources to make scientific claims (50 out of 103). * Many citations directly contradict what was stated in the

For Facts Sake: Scientific reviews of wellness books

For Facts Sake is a running audit of wellness books that shape how people understand their health. All of the books in the series have three things in common: * They're popular wellness books that have been on at least one Amazon (or other) bestselling list. * They provide advice

492 Bestselling Wellness Books: Who writes them, how much they make, & what this tells you

Have you ever picked up a health or wellness book at a bookstore or your library? Have you ever heard one discussed on a talk show, podcast, or social media? There’s a lot of buzz about these books and many of them do sell very well — some of them

Peptide BPC-157: Hype or help?

Peptides are getting a lot of buzz these days. But what actual evidence is there? I'm a nutrition science PhD. Let's review the research. PubMed and Peptide BPC-157 If you go to PubMed and search "BPC-157," you'll get a decent

Supplement Marketing: Mission or Manipulation?

I'm a nutrition science PhD, who also has bachelor's and master's degrees in nutrition science. In my former life, before I went to get those degrees, I was a person who lived most of my life with chronic illness. I was failed by the

Does a low-fat diet improve multiple sclerosis fatigue?

This is a brief review of the study "A low-fat diet improves fatigue in multiple sclerosis: Results from a randomized, controlled trial." Does a low-fat diet improve MS fatigue? No, not based on this study. There will be people who say low-fat diets help them,

Food is not medicine

Too many people are willing to blame chronic conditions (and everything else) on poor diets, choices, lifestyles, etc. But food isn’t medicine. Food isn’t the culprit. Oppression is. Before you X out of this window, consider the lowest time in your life. Maybe it’s now, maybe it’

Are Vitamin A supplements helpful or harmful?

Nutrition PhDc Answer: Vitamin A supplements can be both helpful or harmful, but the harms from vitamin A supplements can be severe. People often assume that supplements are safe because they are natural, but vitamin A in particular can cause liver damage that doesn’t show up for years. What