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A comment on Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefits of Fasting. Parent comment

Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by satokema on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:25AM (#17154582)
No, that is LITERALLY science. You come up with hypotheses and test them.

Hypothesis: [Specific diet] will cause no effects on myself, given my unique biochemicalpsycho makeup.

Hypothesis: [Specific diet] will cause [list of benefits/mali] for myself, given my unique biochemicalpsycho makeup.

etc.

Just because it doesn't automatically apply to the population at large does not make it "not science".

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Re:Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefi... by notheguyouthink on Friday May 25, 2018 @11:52AM (#17154887)
Well I imagine what OP meant was that the testing phase in this "science" is not verifiable/repeatable/etc. Perception is an awful way to perform tests, and is very frequently wrong.
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