r/science • u/chrisdh79 • Oct 09 '24
Neuroscience Your Brain Changes Based on What You Did Two Weeks Ago | A workout or restless night from two weeks ago could still be affecting you—positively or negatively—today.
https://www.newsweek.com/brain-changes-neuroscience-exercise-sleep-health-two-weeks-1965107
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u/waterinabottle MS | Protein Chemistry | Biophysics Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 10 '24
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shes not exactly a quack, more like quack-adjacent. She has a LOT of fans. She is educated in nutritional science but the fans generally are not. She calls herself a scientist but she is a pretty bad scientist at best. She says a lot of reasonable things but also a lot of unreasonable things. She sometimes cites her sources, but a lot of the time they are not high quality citations (sometimes they are even pseudoscience). She is also very prone to being a contrarian and a lot of what she says sounds somewhat reasonable on a surface level but if you dig deeper you'll see that she is either cherry picking information or has completely misunderstood the previous research on the subject matter. A lot of what she says is not crazy and its easy to understand for people with no education in nutrition science and she generally comes across as trustworthy. However, she uses that trust as a trojan horse for her less scientifically rigorous ideas. This is why she is dangerous, she uses her education as a marketing tool, mixes good information with misinformation, and says that she is giving you information that your doctor is not privy to. What ends up happening is that most of her fans just accept what she says without questioning it, even if her advice is actually bad advice.