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A new herbal supplements is on the shelf, and it claims to improve memory. Should you take it? It\u2019s not easy to sort through the firehose of health and nutrition advice that comes at us daily. Find out how to get healthy about health advice, plus hear the story of Bernarr Macfadden, the eccentric who kicked off America\u2019s fitness craze; he believed that eating less was good for you, but he didn\u2019t believe germ theory.\nPlus, our Hollywood skeptic spills his guts and other entrails for a phony class for nurses and Phil Plait gives us the latest lapse in critically-thinking brains.\nIt\u2019s Skeptic Check\u2026 but don\u2019t take our word for it.\nGuests:\n\n\nPhil Plait - Author, badastronomy.com and Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .\n\n\n\nMark Adams - writer and editor, and author of Mr. America: How Muscular Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden Transformed the Nation Through Sex, Salad, and the Ultimate Starvation Diet\n\n\n\nJim Underdown - Executive Director, Center for Inquiry, West - Los Angeles\n\n\nSteven Novella - Assistant professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices