HA, my childhood.
I am curious where you found this if you can dig it up. I used to follow Eck and Wilson pretty closely and was the worse for it. I know Eck died relatively young compared to his promised results, I would love to read more about his end.
I actually really like your posts man, they are intelligent and they do expand the mind to look at other possibilities. I have also been at this for awhile, maybe not 10 years, but almost. At some point it is very difficult not to fall into context overload. You can get on these tracts where you are looking at someone and their life, and you see a stress caused by XYZ, which comes from something in their history, which caused a compensation that is unhealthy for them, but is actually holding this other factor together which is very positive, and if they lost the positive it would actually make the original stress worse off, and so if you remove XYZ without addressing this positive thing you end up making their life worse, and on and on.
The point is, decision paralysis is real the more you know. You say things like this: "This needs to be qualified," "what does that mean in a particular person's real context?," "but I cannot comment on all the clinical contexts that I've seen," or "What is this particular person's problem? That is something that requires enough knowledge of the person's environment to answer."
I mean I get it. These are safe, and no one will ever challenge you really when you stand on such shaky ground. These thoughts are in some ways true even! Who is going to challenge "find what works best for you," that is like the motto of the forums.
But these thoughts really harm you man. I am being totally honest, these thoughts really mess up your life. They come from a place of nihilism. They try to address universals instead of individuals. They stay safe from criticism at the expense of being too broad to matter. I have lived for years with these thoughts, and your life will go no where satisfying. You will let slip by chances to really help people. Someone will come up and say hey I have this problem, what should I do, and they will walk away with more questions.
Haidut has been wrong about a lot. I followed him down a rabbit hole of super high doses of Caffeine, Aspirin, and Niacinamide. No one talks about that metabolism boosting experiment because it was a pretty big failure long term. But Haidut has helped me tremendously just by being willing to take the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. That is my opinion, take it for what it's worth.
I'm a bit surprised at that perspective. tyw has offered plenty of specific advice. From how insulin sensitivity is affected by circadian rhythms and how you can construct your meals in light of that, to the dangers of consuming a lot of saturated fat with fructose, and between and beyond. And when he says things are context dependent, that isn't the equivalent of him throwing up his hands and saying we don't know so nothing matters you might as well do what you want. What he means is if we had more information the advice would change and often he gives a broad brush description of how the advice changes under different contexts. To use a poker analogy, if someone came up to you and asked how to play pocket aces, you wouldn't say you go all in or raise a little or whatever. That would be meaningless advice that would be helpful in some contexts and harmful in others. In order to properly answer the question you would have to ask questions like: what is the board? What was the betting history? What are the opponents tendencies? etc. Only then could you zone in on the proper answer space. Alternatively you could outline a few basic scenarios and give a generic strategy that would usually be helpful under those circumstances. Just because your answer is "it depends", doesn't mean you don't believe there's a correct answer. And it doesn't mean there's a specific answer better than "it depends".