Dr. Steven Novella

But it absolutely can be exhausting as well.

And you have to pick your battles.

You have to decide what's important.

You know, we talk about it like, oh, well, let's do a deep dive on this topic.

You can't do a deep dive on every possible thing in the world.

There's not enough hours in the day.

So...

You know, generally speaking, it's helpful if you have good resources to go to.

There's a lot of people who will do the heavy lifting for you.

And once you establish that they're a reliable resource, you can say, okay, I can trust what this guy says.

And then I can put that through a basic filter, but I don't have to be the person checking every reference and doing all, because somebody else, you know, we basically will team it, you know, we'll divide and conquer as it were.

You have to do that.

Nobody could possibly recheck every single sign, even as a physician.

We're trusting other experts to tell us what the bottom line is.

We can't read every single one of the hundreds of thousands of studies that come out of you.

Well, there's always like a trust but verify approach.

It's like, yes, we do.

Again, you can't go and do the research yourself on everything.

You have to trust that somebody who published research and it went through an editorial process and peer review.

You can't replicate all of that for every single study.