“The information available lacks sufficient detail to be able to assess the research fully, and it has not been peer-reviewed or published. So we should be extremely cautious about accepting any of the claims at face value.

“It’s hard to interpret the results, as they say nothing about their statistical methods. The authors claim statistical significance, but without knowing how the values were calculated it’s impossible to say how meaningful they are.

“It’s important to note that the researchers did not look at any clinical outcomes. [...]