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Related: About this forumQuestions linger over Tom Brady’s relationship with ‘body coach’
One notable product that Bradys partner, Alejandro Alex Guerrero, promoted and the quarterback enthusiastically endorsed was marketed as helping to prevent and heal concussions, a grave health issue for NFL players and a challenge to the sports image. The Federal Trade Commission effectively shut down sales of Guerreros neuroprotective drink, Neurosafe, in 2014, repudiating his extraordinary claims.
Nine years earlier, the FTC sanctioned Guerrero, who doubles as a fitness specialist, for marketing a beverage made largely of organic greens that he falsely claimed could help prevent or cure cancer, heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes.
Guerreros past has not dissuaded the Patriots from forging a business relationship with the company he owns with Brady, the TB12 Sports Therapy Center, at the Patriots Place complex adjacent to Gillette Stadium. Since the center opened in 2013, the team has paid the company for Guerrero and his staff to provide treatment services and nutritional advice to multiple Patriots players....
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KamaAina
(78,249 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)rocktivity
mythology
(9,527 posts)Russell Wilson also tried to endorse some snake oil bullshit water that would prevent concussions.
Given the number of players who suffer from CTE post-playing career, I would think one of their teammates would pull them aside and tell them to knock this shit off. It's offensively (no pun intended) stupid to be peddling this. I wish the FDA would send down much larger fines. Make it crush these quacks and their supporters.
TZ
(42,998 posts)Proves he's not very smart. I'm sure he thinks this snake oil works.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)I don't know what I would find worse. That he's actually stupid enough to think this works, or if he's just a scam artist who doesn't care that his "guru" was willing to rip of people with cancer.
Either way, it's just another piece of evidence that Tom Brady is a lousy human being.