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> Seems for a lot of these nutrients and vitamins the benefit is an upside-down U-shape This is true for almost anything, not just in medicine but also in engi
by krisoft 3y ago
> Seems for a lot of these nutrients and vitamins the benefit is an upside-down U-shape
This is true for almost anything, not just in medicine but also in engineering and in life in general. If you are seeing a variable where the benefits increase as the variable increases you are probably just not sampling the range where it plateus or the range where further increase of the variable becomes detrimental.
Almost as if the saying “everything in moderation” has empirical basis.
- toss1 3y agoYup. One engineer friend/mentor often had cause to criticize the "some is good, [so] more is better" approach to anything; he pretty much considered anyone doing that to be idiots. And he's right — adding more of anything without thinking and measuring will almost always make things worse at some point.
- gryn 3y agoYou can go meta and apply that to thinking and measuring itself.