Cortisol and GLP-1 — my results so far

Dr.PeteFamMed said:

Hormone panel changes on the hormone panel — relevant for anyone curious about endocrine effects: Testosterone: increased 28% (weight loss reduces…

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.

One concrete data point for the thread. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.

Dr.KarenChen said:

The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.

Coming at Dr.KarenChen’s question from a different direction. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.

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

Following on from TrialNerd_Beth — and this may be the naive question:

What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?

OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.

Reporting back for the archive rather than for the thread: I did the narrow version of what was suggested, gave it the full interval, and it settled. Posting it because threads without a follow-up are half a thread.