Nutritional interventions, including extreme ones, carry significant risks that are often overlooked. — Whalespan
Nutritional interventions, including extreme ones, carry significant risks that are often overlooked.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“unfortunately i think this is something that not very many people in this field pay attention to right people are you know we all expect if you do a clinical trial of a drug you're going to report adverse events and and you're going to look at side effects very rarely do people think about that before they write a book recommending that people should do diet x right even in the clinical trials some of the nutritional clinical trials they don't really carefully monitor adverse events”
“we feel like nutritional interventions are by their very nature safe and I think you know certainly for extreme nutritional interventions that's clearly not true so I think we should be thinking about what are the risks associated with significant caloric restriction in people as a as a therapeutic strategy”