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Just another theory. I swear this domain is mostly people throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

I wouldn't be surprised if diet is one of many factors involved. But I really don't see much value by most of the studies at this point. Maybe we'll get to see who's right in a decade or two.

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So many ailments rely on multiple states occurring at the same time, and yet our way of studying seemingly has no way to factor this in.

Kind of sad. But we got a lot of lower hanging fruit plucked by figuring out cures and preventative measures for single state ailments.

I’ve been saying this for a while - science is great at breaking things down to the atomic level and figuring out what does what, individually. But science sometimes is not so good at the systematic, or synergistic view of multiple variables. We keep trying to break things down to one variable that cures all when it’s probably a mixture of a lot of things + different for people with different genetic.

Some problems are harder to solve than others. It usually stems from a long testing period. Try X, wait. Try Y, wait. If the wait period is decades, you have a problem.

Broadly, statistics and large sample sets are used to combat that.

Human understanding, or lack thereof, for a given problem also contributes to suboptimal theories.

Ultimately, hard problems are hard.

You can't get to the systematic view of multiple variables until you know the individual variables.

I wonder if its as fundamental as needing a different "scientific method".

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I expect Alzheimers is caused by a combination of factors. That is why trying to correlate one factor with it has been fruitless.

Maybe fruitless is a good thing in this case

This is why the scientific method exists, thankfully!

Basically anyone can conduct a study, does not mean it's significant.

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