
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
New Books in Psychology
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The Correlation Between B Vitamins and Sleep
It seems to be reading some of the studies in your book, the correlations there but the causation is not clear or not really established. So talk us through that issue. These are well controlled studies. They have a placebo, they have this control group and they show the same magnitude of outcome. Again, they show correlation, don't they? I mean, to get the causation we would need to know what's happening in the brain. For example, when iodine is deficient and what's actually going on at a very basic level which causes it,. Like the smoking argument, the correlation was there long before the science could prove the causation.
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