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- The Bristol average that nobody in the group actually had
Seven people's stool readings averaged 3.8, close to the textbook ideal. Only one of 29 readings was a type 4. What the Bristol scale looks like when you stop averaging it.
- Tired from too much, or tired from too little
Two people can describe the same exhaustion and be running out in opposite ways. One is clogged. The other is empty. What Sasang medicine sees in each, and a few questions that tell them apart.
- Two of the four Sasang types look wrong in every English source
English writing on Sasang either drops the five phases or derives them from organs. The second route gives you a Taeyangin made of metal. Sasang sorts by how energy moves, and that flips two of the four types.
- Most people quit fibre before the side effects even start
The advice is to give it one to two weeks. In a thirty-person programme, half were gone inside four days — most of them before any discomfort arrived.
- Why fibre feels worse before it works
Two groups started with opposite problems. Both ended up near normal. What differed was when the discomfort arrived, and who stayed long enough to get past it.