" Sometimes my patients will say, ‘Is it because when I was forty-five, I did X?,’” Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist, told me. “In those moments, people have intense fear and regret, and when you say it’s not that, it removes something they’re really worried about. "

― Alan Levinovitz , Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science