is it even possible to track his progress when Johnson is using every supplement under sun for the sake of "health"? i can't fathom how. and does using 30 docs at once really yield better results than say... 5-10?
it just all sounds so fabricated
No and this is the major bullet to everything he does. He doesn't do anything in a scientifically repeatable or trackable way. He has at most times probably 30+ things that he's doing or changing every day / week based on reports.
This is completely useless data and will be providing almost nothing to the scientific community. The biomarkers he claims predict health are at best speculative and at worst nonsense. The only analogy i've heard that sums up a majority of them is saying something like:
"If there is a chemical marker to detect gray hair, that would be something you want to reduce because gray hair is a sign of aging" but does having gray hair actually have any health impacts? Does it matter if you manage to find a way to prevent your hair from turning gray on whether you are alive or have less disease? to Bryan that answer doesn't matter its just keep that number low. Most of the markers he tracks we dont really know if it means longevity or health.
There's nothing to compare it to even if everything can be tracked. He thinks he's doing the scientic community a favor but he's really not. A sample size of 1 isn't going to yield any ussble results if there's nothing to compare it to.
I wouldn't fully say that. There are a lot of scientific discoveries medical and otherwise that come from N=1 experiments. This is also much more common for rare and orphan diseases. There is probably also valuable data being generated from such hyper monitoring of one individual.
However I would agree that it is NOT the same as say a large randomized controlled trial of thousands of people over say a decade or more. It also would generate somewhat different types of data.
Where it is also potentially helpful is again in coming up with protocols for yourself as an individual and then someone else taking or tweaking those protocols for their biology. This is what generally happens with performance enhancing substances in sports for example. Little bit of a controversial example. Still a lot of the progress has been one person doing experiments on themselves and then careful tweaking by others to eventually develop a protocol.
The real challenge is others and particularly the general public not using common sense and extreme caution and just following these types of protocols blindly.
The rules of science exist for a reason. His experiment's aren't able to give any valuable data that can be used. Science works on facts without more than one twat sample it can't ever yield anything usable as of now. It's just not how scientific research works. We can study him all we want. With ones test sample we'll never know if the results are unique to him or not. It's mostly useless data. That's one of the reasons it's so dumb to be doing this anyways it's not helping anything and only causing herm at this point. Don't defend stupidity.
Sample size can't be addressed by repeating the same experiment. That's not how it works. Believe it or not humans don't share the same exact chemistry between them. Between that and genes it would never work running the same experiment on the same person several times. It's useless data. There's a reason when clinical trials are done they choose more than 2 people. Defending this guy isn't going to make what he's doing scientifically significant.
if repetition can’t increase sample size, then neither can parallelism
I don’t think you know what you’re saying at all, and I know for sure you don’t know what I said because you accused me of defending a guy who I absolutely am not
This is always what I come back to. Say you have acne and you start using 5 different products and cut out dairy. Your acne is gone, but what did it? Sure you can play process of elimination over the course of a month. But when you’re on hundreds or even thousands, how could you ever know what was really helping
He's probably just been evaluated by ~30 docs since he began his big health journey. I doubt he actually has 30 doctors concurrently providing treatment.
Technically yes and no. More doctors = more opinions, meaning when some of them will ignore the symptoms, one or few would notice them. But it's also counter-productive, because too many opinions = chaos. There is a saying that too many cooks spoils the broth.
So in the end, it's just unnecessary. And at this point it's hard to say what's happening to him, because if you do everything at once, you can't keep track of what caused the effect. If you have 20 alarm clocks and only one is ringing, try to guess which one. Except that you really can't, because you can't just search his organism freely as you could your room for the alarm clock that is loud.
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is it even possible to track his progress when Johnson is using every supplement under sun for the sake of "health"? i can't fathom how. and does using 30 docs at once really yield better results than say... 5-10?
it just all sounds so fabricated