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I’m surprised to see him championed here. He pops up on my Twitter feed sometimes and as a scientist myself, he comes off as an absolute quack. Dr. Oz for mil

• 000ooo000 4y ago
  Not sure I'd qualify my comment as 'championing'. I refer only to his podcast episodes where he discusses topics that one would reasonably expect a professor of neurobiology and opthalmology to have an expert opinion on. It would seem ill-advised to accept as fact his opinions on things like fitness supplements, psychology, or anything else outside his wheelhouse, and while he may be producing content on that now, it seems largely irrelevant to me here.
• dools 4y ago
  I don't agree with that assessment at all. I have listened to several hours of his episodes and he discusses supplements, but rarely have I heard him actually recommend any supplement particularly strongly, except maybe Magnesium Threonate if you want to take Magnesium, but that's hardly quack level supplementation. The impression that I get is that he discusses supplements because the audience wants to know about supplements, and because he experiments with them himself, but I've gotten several excellent and useful pieces of information about diet and sleep regulation and they all involved zero supplements. Comparing him to Dr Oz is wildly inaccurate, even based on the top comment on the Reddit link you posted (which I still think is inaccurate).