Chris Masterjohn

So what am I going to tell them to eat?

Because I'm going to have egg on my face.

pun intended, if I tell them to go back to eating eggs and butter.

So olive oil is this happy middle ground where maybe we can consume a lot of, we can consume olive oil to our heart's content and it's not going to create the tissue damage that drives the plaque, but it's also not gonna ramp up the cholesterol and so we can just navigate the middle that way.

And the reason that no one appreciates this is because medicine,

thinks in binaries.

So I have this saying, all medical diagnoses are false, but some are useful.

And I take this from a saying in statistics, which is all models are false, but some are useful.

And what that is, is an appreciation that once you impose a model on the data, you're now biasing it towards the way you think about it.

And so it's like it's a reality distortion filter to make the data more usable.

So if I can use the model to try to predict something and I see it's true, I might leave details behind.

But I'm focusing on the things that help me make those decisions.

So a medical diagnosis is a hypothesis that the patient will respond to the treatment that they're given.

And you test that hypothesis by giving the patient that treatment.

And then you see if they get better.

And if they don't get better, you take them off the treatment.

That's why some things, people just stay on the drug they're put on.

But look at how they treat depression or epilepsy.

Epilepsy, they just put them on one benzo and it doesn't work.

They put them on the next one.