Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.
Dr.GutHealth said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.
Dr.GutHealth said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Coming at Dr.GutHealth’s question from a different direction. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne concrete data point for the thread. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
One thing that is still open after Dr.GutHealth’s answer:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?