As an individual you should still be allowed to test put various things.
No, as an individual you aren't allow to preach afterwards that anyone can do this.
But you can say: this helped me.
As an individual you don't have to care if it is s result of placebo, your particular gut biome or even magic. If it works it works.
Be happy, write that it helped you, don't write, just don't be annoying about it ;-)
Also the currently top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25819790 summarize it neatly, something like: as far as we know all diets work for weight loss as long as we control for calorie intake (but read the original I linked to).
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Good points and important in science.
As an individual you should still be allowed to test put various things.
No, as an individual you aren't allow to preach afterwards that anyone can do this.
But you can say: this helped me.
As an individual you don't have to care if it is s result of placebo, your particular gut biome or even magic. If it works it works.
Be happy, write that it helped you, don't write, just don't be annoying about it ;-)
Also the currently top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25819790 summarize it neatly, something like: as far as we know all diets work for weight loss as long as we control for calorie intake (but read the original I linked to).