Dr. Martin Picard

You can fulfill your potential.

And then you see the science, you know, the...

capital S science that tells you, no, what you think works doesn't work.

And they just, no, but it works for me.

And then you have a white coat wearing person who says, no, no, I have the authority.

I can tell you this RCT shows that it's not effective.

And I think this really...

is damaging.

It makes me angry.

I feel uncomfortable when I talk about this because this is completely disregarding the human experience and service of this framework that doesn't serve the individual.

The RCT was invented for very good reasons.

It's very useful in some circumstances, like do antibiotics work?

Should you be doing surgery this way or that way?

But when you get to interventions or treatments that are likely to have a highly individualized response

and there are people who respond amazingly to this, to that, then you end up disempowering people.

So I think there's a clash of, I know this to be true from my experience, and then I have this person in this position of authority, this scientist or this doctor that says, no, this doesn't work because the RCT showed that it didn't work.

Like this is really, this breaks trust.

And so I understand the frustration of so many people who've lost confidence in science and the medical establishment, I think for good reasons in many cases.

Yeah, so eating too much for sure damages the whole system, including mitochondria.

So the first piece of response to your question is because we don't think about diet in an individualized way, we're missing the boat on actually finding diets that work for different people.