Why does sema make me SO tired?? — anyone have experience?

LipidDoc_ATL said:

If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.

Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. I will report back once I have actually tried it.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. 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.

traveltech_sara said:

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…

Pushing back on traveltech_sara here. Pushing back on the consensus forming here. Consistency is not the same as correctness, and a board that agrees with itself quickly is usually agreeing with the first person who sounded certain.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. 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.

Moderator note: two posts asking for a source have been merged into one. Please search the thread before asking again. No action needed from anybody.