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   In 2013, as Tom Brady and Alex Guerrero prepared to launch their   
   TB12 therapy center, Bill Belichick made clear during a sports   
   medicine symposium that he trusted the medical and training   
   staff the Patriots already had in place. He credited the team’s   
   staff with helping to win the franchise’s first three Super   
   Bowls.   
      
   In the years after, Belichick allowed many of Brady’s teammates   
   to participate in training regimens not with the Patriots’   
   highly regarded medical and training staff, but at the TB12   
   Center just outside of the stadium in Patriot Place. Guerrero   
   treated the players there with his alternative methods, and the   
   TB12 Center billed the Patriots for his services.   
      
   Belichick also permitted Guerrero, Brady’s close friend and   
   business partner, to secure his own office near the Patriots   
   locker room, fly on the team charter to road games, and receive   
   credentials to work the sidelines of every game, home and away.   
      
   But this season the Patriots coach has reversed course. For   
   reasons he has declined to explain, Belichick weeks ago stripped   
   Guerrero of his special team privileges, restoring a measure of   
   tradition to the team’s medical and training operation,   
   according to several people familiar with the Patriots’ internal   
   operations.   
      
   Guerrero is now banned from boarding Patriots jets. His sideline   
   access has been revoked. And he no longer is permitted to treat   
   players other than Brady in his exclusive office at Gillette   
   Stadium.   
      
   The development has created some friction in Foxborough, where   
   Belichick and Brady have collaborated over 18 years to help   
   create the first great football dynasty of the 21st century,   
   sources said. But the coach and quarterback, in keeping with   
   their tradition, have refused to publicly address a potentially   
   distracting topic, in this case Guerrero’s diminished status.   
      
   When Brady was asked Monday during his regular weekly appearance   
   on WEEI about a possible rift between Belichick and Guerrero, he   
   said, “I don’t have any comment on that other than to say Alex,   
   it’s been well-documented, has been a huge part of what I do and   
   I’m so fortunate to have him not only as a friend, but with   
   everything that we’ve been able to do together.”   
      
   He added, “Alex has been a huge, huge reason why I’m still   
   playing” at age 40. Guerrero is 52.   
      
   Belichick declined to address the issue Monday in his regular   
   interview on WEEI, and Guerrero did not respond to a request to   
   comment for this story.   
      
   The Globe reported in 2015 that the Patriots medical and   
   training staff had lodged complaints with Belichick about   
   Guerrero’s expanding role with the team. Their concerns involved   
   Guerrero’s alternative treatment practices often clashing with   
   their own methods as well as his questionable background.   
      
   Before Brady made him his business partner, Guerrero had been   
   sanctioned by federal regulators for falsely presenting himself   
   as a medical doctor and deceptively promoting nutritional   
   supplements, according to government records.   
      
   Massachusetts state regulators also stepped in when Guerrero   
   began doing business with Brady at the TB12 Center. While   
   Guerrero treated Patriots players and other TB12 clients there,   
   investigators looked into allegations that he was practicing   
   physical therapy without a license. He was cleared of wrongdoing   
   in a 2014 letter instructing him to abide by state regulations   
   while supervising licensed therapists at the TB12 center.   
      
   Belichick indicated to the team’s medical and training staff at   
   the time that his hands were tied because of Brady’s special   
   status with the franchise, according to a source with direct   
   knowledge of Belichick’s exchange with the staffers. The source   
   said Belichick told those who complained about Guerrero: Tom   
   wants him. What am I supposed to do?   
      
   By this season, however, TB12’s client list has grown to include   
   most of the Patriots roster – a unique arrangement in the   
   National Football League. With Guerrero effectively involved in   
   the health and training practices of much of the team, it’s not   
   unusual for him and the Patriots medical and training staff to   
   differ, according to sources.   
      
   Belichick famously dislikes distractions. He dislikes   
   divisiveness, real or perceived, even more. Internal observers   
   believe that restricting Guerrero’s operations in the stadium   
   might reduce some tension in the workplace, where promoting   
   player health and game readiness is considered a priority.   
      
   Under the revised policy, many of Brady’s teammates who have   
   been treated by Guerrero at Gillette are continuing to see him   
   at the nearby TB12 Center. They can be shuttled there in a   
   couple minutes or walk there in less than 10 minutes.   
      
   Guerrero, the godfather of Brady’s son Ben, has been a guiding   
   force in the quarterback’s effort to build TB12 into a national   
   brand. He has collaborated on Brady’s best-selling book, “The   
   TB12 Method,” his sold-out, $200 “TB12 Nutrition Manual,” his   
   line of TB12 snacks, protein, and “performance meals,” his TB12   
   workout gear and apparel, and the bustling TB12 sports center,   
   where there is a waiting list for new clients, according to the   
   company’s website.   
      
   Guerrero’s connection to the Patriots began when he started   
   working with former linebacker Willie McGinest in their native   
   Southern California and in Foxborough more than 17 years ago.   
   McGinest recommended him to teammates, and the list of Patriots   
   who have credited Guerrero with helping them extends from Lawyer   
   Milloy to Ty Law, Troy Brown, Wes Welker, Aaron Hernandez,   
   Julian Edelman, and Danny Amendola.   
      
   None have entrusted their bodies and invested their futures as   
   deeply in Guerrero as Brady. They drew especially close in 2008   
   after Brady suffered a career-threatening injury that required   
   reconstructive knee surgery. Guerrero stayed by him throughout   
   the process, closely participating in his care.   
      
   “He was pretty much ever-present before, during, and after the   
   surgery,” Dr. Neal ElAttrache, a Los Angeles orthopedist who   
   performed the operation, told the Globe in 2015.   
      
   ElAttrache said his mainstream medical practices ran counter to   
   some of Guerrero’s alternative methods.   
      
   Brady gives to Best Buddies, but has taken millions for his   
   charitable trust   
      
   Guerrero, having earned a degree in traditional Chinese medicine   
   from the now-defunct Samra University of Oriental Medicine in   
   Los Angeles, follows a holistic approach that involves   
   alternative therapeutic substances and nutrition plans, as he   
   detailed in his 2005 book, “In Balance for Life: Understanding &   
   Maximizing Your Body’s pH Factor.”   
      
   However, ElAttrache said he was impressed with Guerrero’s care   
   for Brady and other NFL players upon whom he has operated.   
      
   Brady’s bond with Guerrero became so strong that in 2010 he   
   endorsed a beverage called Neurosafe that Guerrero’s supplement   
   company marketed as “a drink that protects your brain from the   
      
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