A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
Dr.GutHealth said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
Dr.GutHealth said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
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Browse GL BiochemDr.GutHealth said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. 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.