Dr.GutHealth said:Sex hormone labs after weight loss on the hormone panel — for the men in this thread: Testosterone: 299 → 579 ng/dL (dramatic improvement!) Free T:…
Pushing back on Dr.GutHealth here. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
Dr.AddMedPHL said:I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion.
Coming at Dr.AddMedPHL’s question from a different direction. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
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Shop Reference StandardsFollowing on from A1cHero_PHX — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Late follow-up. I did not do what was suggested, I did something adjacent, and it worked; posting the difference in case it matters to somebody.