Dr.NateNeph said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Closing this out. What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and worth saying anyway.
Following on from Dr.NateNeph — and this may be the naive question:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
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Shop Reference StandardsLipidDoc_ATL said:What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and…
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
LipidDoc_ATL said:What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and…
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.