Has anyone dealt with is buying from overseas even worth the hassle?

Dr.SleepRoch said:

My experience ordering cross-border ordering internationally: I've ordered from an Australian compounder.

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

Dr.LipidDallas said:

The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.

Pushing back on Dr.LipidDallas here. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.

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: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part.