The next step would be a more serious experiment like the Potato Camp they mentioned.
This is puzzling to me. Randomizing people to different kinds of somewhat restrictive diets[1] seems like a way cheaper and more obvious experiment to test some of SMTM’s hypotheses, such that the potassium in potatoes clears out lithium or whatever.
It seems to me that they would have incurred little additional cost if they had randomized people in this study they already did, so I am somewhat confused about the choice not to have done that.
I say “somewhat restrictive” because I’m reluctant to advocate very restrictive diets, given the very low caloric intake reported by some people in SMTM’s blog post, and the increased risk of gallstones and refeeding syndrome that people incur by eating that little.
This is puzzling to me. Randomizing people to different kinds of somewhat restrictive diets[1] seems like a way cheaper and more obvious experiment to test some of SMTM’s hypotheses, such that the potassium in potatoes clears out lithium or whatever.
It seems to me that they would have incurred little additional cost if they had randomized people in this study they already did, so I am somewhat confused about the choice not to have done that.
I say “somewhat restrictive” because I’m reluctant to advocate very restrictive diets, given the very low caloric intake reported by some people in SMTM’s blog post, and the increased risk of gallstones and refeeding syndrome that people incur by eating that little.