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Dr.EndoEP said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.

Dr.EndoEP said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.

Dr.EndoEP said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

Reprising the part of this that the last few posts have moved away from:

There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.