Reddit mentions: The best medical research books

1. Consult a physician. Listen to what the doctor has to say.
   
   With that out of the way, I would recommend adding "Protein Power!" by the Drs. Eades to your reading list. Similarly, grab a book (it pretty much doesn't matter which one) by Ravnskov. This one will do. GCBC by Taubes is a good treatment of the subject, but it is nothing in terms of a diet plan- which it was never intended to be. His second book ("Why we get fat") is more helpful, although that help comes in the form of "Atkins is right. BTW, middle-aged and older women might not benefit. We don't know why. At least they tend not to get any fatter on keto."
   
   In terms of your meds, are you on any statins?

Yes, it is. Read this book on the identity politics of differentiation within medicine.

survival of the sickest explains why. as well as a couple other diseases European descendants are prone to

How about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

You can do a significance test. But 1 in 20 randomization checks will be statistically significant. So if your test is significant, you don't know if randomization failed, or if you were unlucky.

And if a randomization check is not significant, that doesn't tell you much. It just tells you that you failed to detect failures of randomization.

So don't try. Design robust randomization procedures that you believe in (using telephone randomization, opaque envelopes, whatever). If you don't have complete faith in your randomization, you don't believe it, no matter what.

Link (behind a paywall): http://www.bmj.com/content/319/7203/185.1.full I think the clinical trials book by Torgerson and Torgerson covers this: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Randomised-Trials-Education-Sciences/dp/0230537359 (But so should any decent book on clinical trials).