I wanna bring Dr. Vaughn into this.
I wanna ask you because you
are a neuroscientist, and
I don't wanna put any pressure on ya.
But you know the brain
better than most of us.
I'm curious from your perspective
where you think the science lies
with the tools that Brain Balance uses.
Look, there are different qualities of science out there.
Just like there's different qualities of food
from fast food onto Michelin star,
The science that this organization has produced
is fast food science.
It has massive methodological flaws.
It doesn't have a real control group.
And, look, when your financial stake is tied to the data,
look, in a certain way,
you've gotta have a little bit of skepticism
with what's reported, so the direct data is
is useless and non-existent, and look,
the most powerful effect in all of clinical science
is the placebo effect.
You see it in every single case study,
and so, when you have strong reports from people,
but they're not backed with proper
scientific method,
it's sort of meaningless
because you don't know whether people are just saying
things have gotten better and everything
goes back the other direction once everything is stopped.
We know that dysfunction and mental health issues
are tied to dysfunction of the brain,
but to say that it's left brain versus right brain
and
a host and of multiple sets
of different types of illnesses
can be diagnosed that way
is like a cartoon model of the brain,
and it's effectively meaningless.
I think, as a parent,
my child went through until June,
and he is now not in the program anymore.
I certainly paid the money,
but also know that
in paying the money per hour,
I went to a therapist with my son,
and it cost much more than going to this program.
And it was something that, when you think about it,
and till you just take it in pieces and you say,
"My child is now going to be eating healthy food,"
and you know that there's a gut-brain connection there
and they were doing stimulation
that would allow my child to get auditory stimulation,
visual stimulation, tactile stimulation,
so that when he was in a situation where he was being,
he was, there was demands on him to pay attention in school,
he had
had gotten used to that,
so he was able to pay attention so much better.
Imagine the child who's sitting in class,
and now you hear something out in the hallway.
His attention isn't going out there anymore.
His attention is on
Yeah, and Dr. Silverman,
I think we totally understand
the thing.
That as a parent, in many ways, what really
truly matters to you personally is that N of one, right?
Exactly.
I understand that,
so I totally respect and understand your experience.
It's amazing that you've seen these profound changes--
And it's not a one,
it's not a one shot, I, look, my children still need
all kinds of parenting
and help and things.
We know that it's a process
and we love the fact that he's improved so much.
I think what we're all trying to get
more clarification on is,
can we really tout this program
with all of the different strings that it comes with
as evidence-based?
What is the evidence?
