Well, this is a combination of horrendous, frustrating and painful: Discovery of Microbiome “Third Brain” Confirmed by Scientific Research in Japan | Business Wire. This is a press release that focused on Peter Greenlaw and Marco Ruggiero so I assume it came from him.
It starts off discussing a new paper from
“the prestigious peer-reviewed scientific Journal “Anticancer Research”
“describes the properties of a food product that is reminiscent of the “super food for the third brain.”
“this finding supports the discoveries revealed in the book “Your Third Brain,” co-authored by Peter Greenlaw, Dr. Marco Ruggiero and Drew Greenlaw, with the forward written by author John Gray, Ph.D.”
Four and a half years ago, a huge discovery was made. In 2010, a team of researchers discovered a new organ that had gone undetected for more than 3,000 years in Human Anatomy. They called this newly discovered organ the microbiome.
The microbiome is much more than the gut microflora. It is a complex organ that is responsible for the development and function of all the other organs and systems, from the brain inside our heads to the immune system. The influence of the microbiome, that is located all over our body and not only inside the gut, on our behavior and intellectual functions is so significant that it can be aptly named “the third brain” as it is described in the book.
Wow. I mean sure there is some evidence that the human microbiome can impact the brain. But first of all, it is ridiculous to consider it “the third brain”. Also, to say it is responsible for the development of the rest of the body is just plain silly.
Dr. Ruggiero’s team is working hand in hand with the complete cooperation and unprecedented collaboration of medical doctors, with the goal of extending the highest possible quality of life for their patients for as long as possible. And although Dr. Ruggiero did not personally discover the microbiome, he did identify it as the third brain.
Before this book was written, man did not know that his thoughts, feeling, emotions, behaviors, his supposed free will were under the control of a non-human organ whose existence had gone undetected until very recently, the microbiome.
This book describes what is and how we can take control of this non-human third brain and aspire to bring out the superman that is inside us. As the Philosopher wrote: ‘Let your will say: the overman shall be the meaning of the earth… Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss … what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.’ Thanks to the information contained in this book, for the very first time in the history of mankind we can transform ourselves and reach this end
I am hereby awarding Greenlaw and Ruggiero an “Overselling the Microbiome” award. But that seems too small for them. They deserve some sort of “Biggest pile of BS ever” award. I will consider starting such a new award series in their honor.
Hmmm… Greenlaw appears to be a slick broad-specificity alt-med performer, and Ruggiero is a HIV-denier who formerly worked with Peter Duesberg.
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sounds about right .. sadly
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Maybe you should give grades of award — Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Unobtanium — to rank the awardees? Multiple awards for multiple achievements as well, of course.
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I fell for the same article [trap]. I watched an interview where he even knew he was over-reaching about tap water being toxic. Just another snake oil salesman using “microbiome” as a buzzword.
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“Note – no link is provided to the paper.”
Here it is: http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/35/8/4545.long
The lead author, Dr Toshio Inui, runs a chain of clinics in Japan, offering a range of cancer treatments Doctors Won't Tell You About, including laetrile, intravenous vitamin C, Ukrain, low dose naltrexone &c. Their flagship products are GcMAF and the miracle yoghurt whose virtues are extolled in the above paper, and which are available for sale over the internet (payments by wire transfer only).
http://www.saisei-mirai.or.jp/gan/index_eng.html
Dr Ruggiero was until recently the Scientific Director of a similar outfit in Europe called First Immune, but they seem to have run into regulatory difficulties recently:
http://www.24heures.ch/vaud-regions/lausanne-region/Clinique-privee-sous-enquete-penale-apres-cinq-morts/story/12349881
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridgeshire-laboratory-raided-unlicensed/story-25981305-detail/story.html
It seems that regulatory authorities in the United States are also taking an interest:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/16/the-mysterious-death-of-a-doctor-who-peddled-autism-cures-to-thousands/
Dr Ruggiero is a co-author with Kerri Rivera, Jim Humble and other luminaries of a popular parents' handbook for bleaching away their children's autism:
http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Symptoms-Known-Autism-Edition/dp/0989289044/
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Greatest reply eeevvvveeerrr! 😂😂😂😂
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