Simply Healthy E24 - Navigating the Literature

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Ask yourself 1. Is the person selling something? If so what? A bar? A shake? A service? 2. Who funded the study? A pharmaceutical company? A supplement company? 3. Is the study done on humans or animals? Don’t discount either just be thoughtful. Rats have a very different metabolism.

4. Randomized control studies are best Why? What’s the difference?5. Are you similar to the population studied. E.g men dominate the studies. Statins cause diabetes in 40 percent of women but notmen. If you are a thin athletic women is prolonged fasting really best?

6. Literature reviews can be good or bad. 10 bad studies don’t add up to one good review

7. Relative risk vs absolute risk e.g statin studies 8. Just because something is good for you doesn’t mean more and more extreme is better. E.g extended fasting. OMAD. Zero carb vs LCHF9. Look and see what studies have in common for big takeaways. What’s the underlying commonalities between vegan diets and ketogenic diets? They both have dramatically less processed food then SAD10. Do the findings make sense on a physiological level?

Low carb makes more sense when you think about well established biochemistry andphysiologyNone of these are deal breakers but you need to acknowledge them and be critical I don’t believe you need to wait for 10 randomized trials to extrapolate otherwise you will wait your whole life. N=1 experiments on yourself are the most powerful in many ways You will always be slightly different then a study due to genetics.