Welcome back to Get Fit Guy. This is Kevin Donne. I feel like it's been a while since I

debunked something, but this past week I was looking at some posts by a guy I know from Southern

Cali. He used to own a CrossFit gym and has now reinvented himself as some kind of guru or

spiritual leader, complete with long flowing sage-like beard. Apart from the claims that he and his

fellow gurus are making on social media being worrying, I would say the most worrying thing is that there are over a million

people following his nonsense on Instagram. This goes to show that there are many people out there

that do have some kind of chronic physical or spiritual pain. They must feel failed by the healthcare

system in order to take up things that have

been completely disproven by modern medicine hundreds of years ago.

It's all well and good to say this stuff is insane, which I'm literally just about to do,

but it's also clear that something's wrong, that people are being

funneled to these charlatans for answers rather than going to their doctors. And it's only when

that is fixed that people can truly find help. I'm not, however, able to fix the global healthcare

system. So my gift to you this week is to chat about supplements.

Now, on the aforementioned account was, surprise, surprise,

a discount code for money off, also known as a kickback to the influencer,

on a supplement to decalcify your pineal gland. According to his post,

your pineal gland is very important in the production of melanin, which has a role to play in skin

coloration and therefore how we interact with the sun. I want to say right here, that is false.

The pineal gland has a major role in melatonin production, which sounds very similar, but these hormones

do completely different things and having a few letters in common doesn't make them the same. This is a really

common thing though in pseudoscience where people will mix genuine claims with false ones. Because the

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