Peter Attia· MD
one is that you're looking people so you're looking at people in their regular everyday context this is not an artificial lab scenario you're just looking at people living their lives and experiencing higher or lower weight and you're saying what genes correlate with that so it's very naturalistic second it's very replicable these studies are highly replicable in other words if you do three studies of this nature you're going to tend to get similar results so the methodology it's one of the most rigorous i would say in the biological sciences that we have and then and i think that oh sorry i'll let you finish because i was going to add something to that but go ahead um and the third one is that it's unusually objective as well it has a higher level of built-in objectivity resistance to bias compared to other types of investigation because it's not driven you're just looking across the whole genome and seeing what pops up you're not saying i'm going to focus on the connection between x biological process and y outcome you're just saying i'm interested in y outcome what correlates with it and let's see what biology pops up could be anything we're just gonna see and so that really gives you a chance to i think check your thinking on what the underlying biology is in various traits and diseases