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Ep. 164 - A Scientific Examination of the Carnivore Diet

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Mechanistically Driven Diets - Are They Really Compelling?

When you start your diet building purely based on mechanistic extrapalations and theories and ideas, then you ignore the long term evidence. And in some cases, there might be stuff going on that even people on the cutting edge of science have not yet identified or discovered. What you need to see for something to really be compelling and start influencing your health related decisions is, ok, there's a mechanistic basis for this. But we also see that in longitudinal outcomes, measurable, clinically relevant changes happen in human beings. So if it's all happening in a petree dish, or in a mouse,  if it's all theoretical, that should give you pause.

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