Jay Novella

Oh, okay, from the biotech.

Right, oh, yeah.

So when they're kind of correlating all of this data and trying to come up with conclusions,

this was factored in, just to make the observational study a little bit more causal.

You know, it's never going to be really as solidly causal as something where you're assigning people, and it's double blind and all that stuff.

But this is just to help it to be a little bit more rigorous.

So that's kind of one of the things that they did that I thought was interesting.

It's important to mention the limitations of the study.

The researchers admit that the

The study group that they used, the 17,000 people, they could have been healthier and fitter than the general population.

That's a possibility that they didn't investigate or rule out or anything, I guess.

But there's no reason to believe that, right?

No.

No.

They just say that they could have been healthier and fitter than the general population, which would skew their results a little bit.

So that's just one of the limitations that they didn't have an answer for necessarily.

So that's just a limitation.

Like another example here is that—

They did not measure how sedentary these people were or how much exercise did you do that was less vigorous than others.

So this wasn't a perfect study, obviously.