Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard has always been a wellness obsessive, and with endless time on his hands after Tommy John surgery, it appears that his quest to educate himself has taken him into some pretty dark corners of the internet.
In a seemingly light-hearted interview with GQ on Tuesday, Syndergaard detailed some of his kooky if possibly harmless rehab practices — hyperbaric chambers, infrared saunas, “blood flow restriction” while sweeping the floor, “bone broth,” — before admitting that he believes 5G really is a health problem. Inane ideas bleeding into actually dangerous ones is a common path among people who consume tons of health and wellness media, and that appears to include Syndergaard.
It’s certainly the path the interview takes. “I’m really big into grounding, or earthing, which is basically standing barefoot and making a connection to the earth,” Syndergaard told Clay Skipper, the son of longtime ESPN president John Skipper. Harmless enough!
“We don’t really do, like, the normal ‘healthy eating,’ as you would say, like the basic Tom Brady diet, which is… don’t get me started on that,” Syndergaard said. I completely agree, Noah, even if I would quibble with calling “the basic Tom Brady diet” “normal.”
From there, Syndergaard gets into much shakier territory, explaining that “I’m really big into podcasts. In particular, I listen to this guy named Ben Greenfield.”
Syndergaard has said for years that he listens to Greenfield and works out fanatically. Even before COVID, Greenfield was a hardcore anti-vaxxer; maybe that’s where Syndergaard was coming from when he posted and quickly deleted an idiotic anti-vaccine meme last month. Greenfield has said he’s “still on the fence” about getting vaccinated against the coronavirus. (The meme Syndergaard posted has been wiped from the internet, but it compared free donuts for vaccinated people to dogs obeying to get treats.)
Syndergaard goes on to say that he believes Wi-Fi and 5G are messing with him on a cellular level.
“In the afternoon I like to turn the sauna on, turn the hot tub on. I like to turn the Wi-Fi off, too, and try to mitigate as much EMF or dirty signals affecting how my mitochondria recovers and reacts,” Syndergaard said. “That’s another interesting thing that I like to do before I go to bed: turn the Wi-Fi off.”
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The interview ends on the following exchange, where Skipper asks the right question:
Where’d you get that?
Ben Greenfield. I’m sure there’s some Joe Rogan ones that offer something similar… I think there’s something to the 5G and all the EMF.
I don’t know anything about it.
Maybe try to turn your wifi off before you go to bed tonight.
GQ
Say what you will about the mitochondrial effects of radio waves on a four-seam fastball, but based on this interview, it’s hard to argue with any household practice that limits the amount of time Syndergaard can spend reading the internet.