1/ How to go about testing out treatments for a complex medical condition? (eg my gut condition)
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2/ Philosophy one: One treatment at a time.
Pro: You figure out specifically what works and what doesn’t.
Con: Very slow (individual treatments might take weeks to have effects).
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3/ Philosophy two: *Many* treatments at 1ce (provided they don’t interfere with one another)
Pros: (a) Might be faster to find at least one that works. (b) Treatments may have synergies
Cons: (a) You might not know what worked. (b) There may be interactions you don’t know about
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4/ Right now I am getting tons of treatment suggestions and I’m unsure what to do. Does anyone have opinions?
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depends on how much you value the next few months in particular? it’s a tradeoff between potentially faster progress and less ability to explain it