Questions linger over Tom Brady’s relationship with ‘body coach’

[El Supremo]

The Patriots, in an unusual departure from National Football League practice, have created a revenue stream for a private business owned by their franchise quarterback, Tom Brady, and a partner who faced federal sanctions after falsely presenting himself as a medical doctor and deceptively promoting nutritional supplements.

One notable product that Brady’s 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 sport’s image. The Federal Trade Commission effectively shut down sales of Guerrero’s “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.

Guerrero’s 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....

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/12/19/patriots-pay-business-owned-tom-brady-and-partner-with-dubious-past/C4zMzcPDgU62WMMg10qeBL/story.html

[KamaAina]

1. Does Gisele know?

[rocktivity]

5. I thought SHE was his body coach!

rocktivity

[mythology]

2. The stupid shit people will believe

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]

3. His endorsement of Trump

Proves he's not very smart. I'm sure he thinks this snake oil works.

[Iggo]

4. He doesn't think it works. He thinks you think it works because he tells you it works. (n/t)

[mythology]

6. As I said, he's not the only football player selling snake oil

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.