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ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2012) — Nine out of 10 drugs successfully tested in mice and other animal models ultimately fail to work in people, and one reason may be traced back to a common fact of life for laboratory mice: they're cold, according to a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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The other reason mice nutrition studies don't "work," i.e., apply to people, is that mice didn't evolve to thrive on a ketogenic diet; humans did. Even if the chow composition were comparable to a LC WOE, they're simply not good analogs for human reactions.
Oh for the love of...this actually made me angry as i keep jirds as pets, and they NEED nesting material. It's like 'OMG you mean keeping our test subjects healthy AFFECTS our outcomes?!?!?'