I try to be as faithful to the author’s content as possible in summaries and don’t want to let my biases in. Some places I verify or add my apprehensions (like in the ‘Paul Brunton’s India review) but I dont want these to reflect my biases in any way if possible. A lot of these self-help book possibly make unverified claims and are based on research that haven’t be verified by the gold-standard of RCT (while most are - like Jiuilia Enders’ Gut in this thread and also large parts of ‘The Obesity Code’ - a lot of these books in fact are a collection of ideas from scientific papers).
I have learned over time to hear these books out without my biases. If there’s an idea in it that promises lot but can be potentially damaging, I would probably not even try it. However, if there are ideas that can’t do harm, or might do less harm than drugs, I will very likely take it with a pinch of salt and try (like sleeping 8 hours for eg.).
It is at this point accepted by science that diabetes is a life-style disease exacerbated by our intake of processed foods - or so the book ‘The Obesity Code’ claims. Will it hurt me to cut down on refined sugar and white bread? Probably not and I could always try, especially if I am pre-diabetic and monitor it - which is what some people on this forum that I know have done and have verified the claims for themselves and swear by it - So I feel while verifying all claims made my these books and cross-checking research papers and so on will be a waste of our time - we should assess applicability and risk:reward and act accordingly.
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