mike.trainer_LA said:ApoB is the more informative number and it is cheap.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions. What is a personal-import allowance in one country is a controlled-import offence in another.
WendyG_ATL said:One order arrived in nine days, one was held at the border for a fortnight, and one came back with a seizure notice.
My experience ordering cross-border ordering internationally: I've ordered from an Australian compounder. Customs can be hit or miss.
Shipping time: 5-10 days
Customs clearance: was seized once, reshipped free
Quality: Janoshik tested at 99.4% purity
International ordering adds complexity but can save 60-80% compared to US prices. Research your country's import laws first.
Dr.KarenChen said:Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. 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.
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View ResultsOne thing that is still open after MeganSA_TX’s answer:
Whether an unchanged LDL-C alongside a large triglyceride fall is a good result or a bad one, because ApoB and LDL-C seem to be telling different stories?
Reporting back.
Update, and it is the boring outcome: nothing was wrong. The measurement I was reading had moved less than its own week-to-week variation, which somebody said upthread and I did not believe.