Dr. Martin Picard

The P value, the statistical value here becomes significant.

And now you say, ooh, the ketogenic diet is effective for this.

Or the ketogenic diet does not work for X.

This is, I think, highly misleading because when you peel the surface of any randomized clinical trial, you find that there are people who were amazing responders.

There are people whose lives was changed, truly.

And then there are people who didn't change anything.

And then there are also people who got worse.

And then you average everyone.

You squish everyone into this average.

And then the RCT is a statistical test of averages.

Nobody is the average.

Nobody is actually the average.

Literally.

Literally.

And then the ketogenic diet could literally save lives and it could cure or be like a really solid treatment for schizophrenia or bipolar or Crohn's disease or whatever it is for like 20% of the population.

And we'll never find out just because we have a science of averages.

It's the only solution.

Yeah.

And there's a clash here between the value of the human experience, right?

You know that this thing works for you and that you live at a higher level, right?