This sounds very odd - I read this book with skepticism as a PhD neuroscientist, and found much of it to be completely preposterous, and yet, somehow, it still helped me get back to running after being unable to run properly for 2.5 years. I didn't even have to fully believe the weirder aspects of his theories - the core, and more defensible parts were enough to give me benefits I didn't really expect, as a skeptic.