ingrid_STO said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
mark_tokyo said:HPA axis assessment on the hormone panel: rarely ordered but informative for understanding the stress-metabolism connection: 4-point salivary…
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
ingrid_STO said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
I read this differently from ingrid_STO, on substance rather than tone. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.
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View ResultsOne concrete data point for the thread. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.
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