PART VII. HONEST LIMITATIONS

What the Method Does Not Do, and Where Its Limits Lie

“A strong tool is one whose limits of applicability are clearly drawn. Blurred boundaries are a sign not of strength but of vagueness.”

In Part V (section 25) I discussed the limitations of the method’s evidence base — how our direct data still rest on small samples, why a full randomized controlled trial is needed, and how limited the long-term follow-up data remain. These are methodological limitations, and the scientific program is working to resolve them.

Here in Part VII I want to address something different — the practical limits of the method in the life of a particular person. Where FSF works slowly. Where it must be integrated with medical care. Where it does not work and should not be applied. Which expectations are mistaken, and dangerously so. And what I consider most important to say openly.

This section may read as “anti-promotional.” That is deliberate. A method without clear limits has no clear power either. I would rather be precise about what we do and do not do — for the safety of participants, and for my own intellectual honesty.