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Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey, everyone. Today,

I'm joined by Dr. Robert, the research director at our clinic, and we review a study that purported to show a diet that was guided by IGG testing

was superior to a low phob map diet. And at first glance, that could seem like a quite impactful

study. And so it was worth a full read.

And upon further investigation, while being fully open-minded, you see that there are a number

of errors in this study.

Just one example, they had a placebo group and they didn't use the placebo group in their analysis,

meaning you can compare across groups or within groups.

And the whole reason why you have a placebo versus a control group or a placebo control

trial, a treatment group versus a control group is so that you factor out the impact of placebo

and can be left with what the actual impact of the intervention is.

And in this study, even though they had multiple groups, a placebo group, they didn't include

that group in the analysis. They didn't do cross-group comparison. And there's a few

other methodological flaws that we go into. We get a little bit into the theory of, or I can say

the theory, we get into what are the fundamentals of good scientific methodology?

If you want to take home, take home is this study was published that purported that a

IGG food allergy test was superior to a low phop map diet or to a controlled diet.

And unfortunately, this paper is so littered with methodological errors that I don't think that

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