Dr. Michael Kilgard
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I'm fine with that.
My health, my diet, my whatever, it's about diversity.
Try to eat a bunch of things.
If someone is just eating potatoes and tater tots and chicken nuggets, that's all they eat, yes, you're going to need to supplement something.
They're going to have problems.
And a lot of people are because their socioeconomic status is the big one that we don't talk too much about.
Like the neuroscience are trying to understand...
If you're poor, what things are worth it and what things aren't?
It's just really hard to make these judgments.
Easy to be a parent when you've got lots of resources.
Really hard when you're facing latchkey kids and expensive food and all the rest.
So that specificity thing, I think we've nailed it on choline.
I think we've nailed it on a lot of these stories.
But does that mean we've got blanket cures for most neurological psychiatric disorders?
No.
For tinnitus, we understood.
We had a theory of what it was.
We ran animal studies, we reproduced it in animals, and then we cured it in animals.
And then we did the next step.
And it was not as successful as we wanted to.