That seems like a very poor argument. The original research was clinical. It seems you are just belittling epidemiology, which isn't particularly logical
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Replying to @GidMK
It's not that I'm belittling epidemiology, it's just not useful for that job. If you want to understand the effects of individual foods, you need to isolate them from each other and from other lifestyle choice factors.
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Replying to @KetoCarnivore @GidMK
Meat cannot itself be inflammatory. It only takes a few counterexamples to defeat that hypothesis, and we have those. My own hsCRP was last measured as below the lowest range of the test (0.3mg/L) on a plant-free diet. This is a typical anecdotal finding on plant-free diets.
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Replying to @KetoCarnivore @GidMK
So any finding of increased hsCRP from increased meat eating must be only a signal of meat eating being associated with other inflammatory behaviour in the population. It doesn't transfer out of context. It can't be used to guide choices.
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Replying to @KetoCarnivore
Or inflammation is, as I said, more complex than you can easily link to individual foods Also, anecdotes are a wonderful starting point for research but useless in determining the correct answer
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Replying to @GidMK @KetoCarnivore
I'm sure you can see the enormous issue with arguing that "meat cannot be linked to inflammation" by using anecdotes that are subject to innumerable biases, in particular survivorship bias
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Replying to @GidMK
Anecdotes are useless for proving positive hypotheses, but serve perfectly well as counterexamples to disprove hypotheses of the general type "meat is inflammatory". You now have to argue that I'm a special snowflake if you want to claim that.
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Replying to @KetoCarnivore
? Not at all. I can just say, again, that it's probably more complicated than "x food is inflammatory" and that such an attitude is probably reductionist regardless of which food you use as "x"
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Replying to @GidMK @KetoCarnivore
For example, meat could be inflammatory for 99.99999999999% of people with you the odd exception. Meat could be inflammatory unless your name starts with L. Probably not, but that's the issue with anecdotes; you just don't know
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Replying to @GidMK
Yes. That's what I meant by special snowflake. I grant you that. I just think it's extraordinarily unlikely. I also think lack of inflammatory response is more likely to be general than inflammatory response, since intolerances can be idiosyncratic.
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Well, in the absence of evidence for your position I'd say that this study does seem to indicate that for the average person meat is associated with inflammation. Obviously, as my blog says, I'm skeptical of the causal associations for both meat and most of those other foods
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Replying to @GidMK
We're in agreement there, and I enjoyed and appreciated your post!
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