james_edin said:baseline bloodwork + this community = winning.
True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.
stefan_berlin said:Agreed, and reference ranges are laboratory-specific.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.
james_edin said:baseline bloodwork + this community = winning.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. 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.
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