ONE HUNDRED POUNDS DOWN LETS GOOO

Dr.PeteFamMed said:

Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

Following on from Dr.PeteFamMed — and this may be the naive question:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

raj_cambridge said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

Pushing back on raj_cambridge here. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.

raj_cambridge said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

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.