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Y'all probably know this, but exercise caution analyzing studies regarding new, tenuous relationships to health topics. Doubly so if the topic is winning curren
by hansvm 3y ago
Y'all probably know this, but exercise caution analyzing studies regarding new, tenuous relationships to health topics. Doubly so if the topic is winning current funding popularity contests. A particularly common mental trap is taking something that has a decent chance of being true (gut microflora affect health) and extrapolating that to something with much weaker evidence (this particular set of unstudied gut microflora peddled by somebody with financial motive to deceive me will improve my personal health situation), and applying a layman's understanding of novel research doesn't help.
The beta-amyloid connection to Alzheimer's has issues (outright fraud among them), and the opposing viewpoint (that fermented foods, especially those with live active cultures (though admittedly not studying this variant specifically AFAIK), help resist AD or decrease symptoms after onset) has decent supporting literature as well.
- lelanthran 3y ago> The beta-amyloid connection to Alzheimer's has issues (outright fraud among them), and the opposing viewpoint (that fermented foods, especially those with live active cultures (though admittedly not studying this variant specifically AFAIK), help resist AD or decrease symptoms after onset) has decent supporting literature as well. This is interesting to me. Do you have a link to a good overview of the fermented foods argument?
- vonjuice 3y agoIt seems to me like the treatment for this is to cut down sugars and starch. Which entities would have financial motives to have people eat less sugar and flour? Specially consider how big the industries behind those two are.
- lawlessone 3y ago>Which entities would have financial motives to have people eat less sugar and flour? This is a tangent but Herbal supplements are a billion dollar industry.