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  • The Physiological Society's symposium highlighted the importance of variability.
  • Current approaches often oversimplify complex clinical conditions.

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  • To critique the reductionist approach in understanding environmentally-induced clinical conditions.
  • To advocate for embracing variation in pathogenesis and pathology.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing methodologies and their limitations.
  • Discussion of the challenges posed by biological variability.

Main Results:

  • Certain clinical conditions resist identification and quantification by single methodologies.
  • A reductionist approach may hinder a full understanding of disease mechanisms.

Conclusions:

  • Understanding complex diseases requires embracing variation, not minimizing it.
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