Dr.GastroMayo said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.
One concrete data point for the thread. 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.
One thing that is still open after Dr.GastroMayo’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
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Browse GL BiochemLabKate said:For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.
Pushing back on LabKate here. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
LabKate said:For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.
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.