Run clinical trials on food
Study real food for health
Why Are We Running Thousands of Clinical Trials on Drugs — But Almost None on Food?Every day, Americans eat foods that may shape their health for decades.But the U.S. medical research system spends far more time studying pharmaceutical drugs than studying the real foods people eat every day.This gap in research leaves doctors, patients, and policymakers without clear answers about how foods influence:
*heart disease
*diabetes
*inflammation
*gut health
*immune function
*metabolic diseaseFood is one of the most powerful inputs into human biology — yet it is one of the least studied in clinical medicine.
It’s time to change that.
The research and clinical gap
We need clinical trials of real food
The Research GapThe United States invests tens of billions of dollars every year in biomedical research through the National Institutes of Health.Much of that research funds clinical trials of pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices and new therapies.But relatively few clinical trials study the direct health effects of whole foods and dietary patterns.Instead, most nutrition research relies on:
*observational studies
*dietary surveys
*short-term laboratory experimentsThese studies are valuable, but they cannot answer the most important questions about how food affects human health.For that, we need clinical trials of real foods.Clinical trials are the gold standard of medical science. They allow researchers to measure how an intervention changes real health outcomes in real people.If we want to understand how food influences disease risk, we must study foods the same way we study medicines.That means conducting rigorous trials examining how real foods affect:
*blood sugar
*cholesterol
*inflammation
*the gut microbiome
*cardiovascular outcomes
*metabolic healthFermented foods in particular show enormous promise in treating a wide range of ailments but they are significantly understudied.Doctors cannot prescribe food as part of evidence-based medicine if the science behind it does not exist.NIH should spend a billion dollars a year on real food clinical studies.
Leaders for real food research
These leaders support a biomedical research budget of at least one billion annually that focuses on diet and food, the single largest cause of death and sickness.
"Healthy foods and probiotics prevent disease and can fix the microbiome. Let's prove it clinically!"
@juliesmolyanksy CEO Lifeway Foods
Someone else!
@bobbynewmark
And someone else
@annlewis
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