Peter Attia· MD
the mice that are the strongest and healthiest have the biggest appetites they eat more and what you're seeing is confounding by general health
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the mice that are the strongest and healthiest have the biggest appetites they eat more and what you're seeing is confounding by general health
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those mice that choose to eat more live longer so the association in the observational component is exactly opposite to the causal effect in the experimental component