Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
Dr.SleepRoch said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Second this.
Dr.SleepRoch said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Coming at Dr.SleepRoch’s question from a different direction. 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 retelling.
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Shop Reference StandardsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.
Following on from Dr.SleepRoch — and this may be the naive question:
Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?