Dr. Datis Kharrazian

It actually is very powerful and clearly shown to have an effect.

Yeah.

So when you talk about nutraceuticals and you talk about how to do things, there's two ways to look at them.

One of them is...

what's generalizable to the whole population, right?

So when you look at observational studies, when you look at even clinical trials that are done, you know, you can see that they're trying to look at what has an impact in a group of people.

Of course, there's inclusion, exclusion criteria.

Then there's a world of individualized medicine where certain things can have a very powerful impact based on the condition and all the things that they are dealing with, okay?

So, and for most of us that practice functional medicine, working with chronic conditions, we're kind of, you know, working with people that have, let's say, a very specific autoimmune disease or someone who's just, you know, recovering from a stroke or an injury that way.

And then we're trying to do interventions that may not be generalizable to the whole population.

But, so I'll answer your question by telling you what's generalizable to the whole population.

Like, hey, you should definitely take this because there's a lot of evidence on this.

Yeah.

Fish oils.

That is huge.

So if you look at the most common reason why most of us will die, it'll be from a stroke or a heart attack, right?

Some kind of cardiovascular event.

So it's the number one cause of death.

And there have been so many randomized clinical trials at the point where there's now multiple meta-analyses, multiple meta-analyses when they combine multiple clinical trials together to get a composite score to really look at the evidence.

Because when you look at a study, some are good, some are bad, and people can cite one versus the other.