Pillars - by Andrew Brandeis (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Do you suffer from a desire to be horizontal by 10 p.m.? Do the dark hours of the night feel like a time to lay in bed rather than seated at your desk?

You may be suffering from Rest Dependency. Millions of Americans lose 8 hours every night to this preventable disorder. Ask your doctor if Restempic may be right for you.

Zach Sumthing is very good at arranging true facts into narratives that produce false conclusions.

When Apex Pharmaceutical develops a drug that ends the need for sleep, Zach invents the disease that makes it prescribable.

He names it. He funds the research. He destroys the scientist who finds the brain damage--and he tells the story so well that the biggest fraud in pharmaceutical history feels like a public service.

Pillars is a story about the beliefs we are sold, the people who sell them, and the consequences we refuse to foresee. Zach is not a villain: He is a pharma marketing executive who happens to do his best work at night.

About the Author

Dr. Andrew Brandeis is a physician who cofounded a personalized nutrition company but spends most of his time telling people what not to eat. He is also a painter, musician, yogi, husband, and father, though not necessarily in that order and definitely not at the same time. He avoids seed oils because he has read the studies, and plastic because he values his endocrine system.

He believes sugar is what adults give children when they've run out of ideas, that butter is a food group, that the most important things about medicine are the things no one is allowed to say, and that most of what we are told was written by someone selling cereal.

He has worked inside the healthcare industry long enough to know where the bodies are buried and who sold the shovels. He lives with his family and a growing collection of opinions about processed foods, none of which he keeps to himself. He is currently waiting to be abducted by aliens because Earth's drama has become repetitive and poorly written. Pillars is his first novel.