Chris Kresser Quotes

“A recent study documented a 52 percent decline in sp*rm concentration and a 59 percent decline in total sp*rm count in men over a nearly forty-year period ending in 2011.

A decline in sp*rm count and concentration leads to a decreased probability of conception. The authors of the study speculated that increased exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in the environment may be partly to blame for this trend.”

“Another reason that conventional medicine hasn’t been successful is that it focuses on suppressing symptoms rather than addressing the underlying cause of disease.”

“Broken payment models. Because we rely on insurance companies to pay for care, the treatments offered are not necessarily the most effective or those supported by the most current evidence — they’re simply the treatments that insurance companies have agreed to reimburse.

This is not evidence-based medicine, it’s reimbursement-based medicine.”

“In a hundred years, medical practitioners will probably shake their heads over the methods used today.

After all, nobody would treat a headache by drilling a hole in a patient's head, but that was the practice in the Dark Ages.”

“In fact, it's not an exaggeration to say that the history of science has been the history of most people being wrong about most things most of the time.

The willingness to challenge even our most deeply-held assumptions and the humility to admit when we've been wrong are essential to good science.”