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#570 - Helen Lewis - Investigating The World Of Modern Gurus

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Is There a Degree of Freedom in Health and Fitness?

There are so many degrees of freedom within exercise science and nutrition science that you can fit these studies to show basically whatever it is that you want. It's actually one of the things that my friend Karen and Kriyal did, Paris, right, in her book Invisible Women, that they will often exclude women from them. If you're looking at any kind of medical study, because I'll just say, women's hormonal cycles are too crazy. They're just injecting all this stuff into the data. And what might be inappropriate days for a 20-something man and a 70-year-old man might be very different. We just don't know about that internal body chemistry. But

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