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anders_CPH said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

I read this differently from anders_CPH, on substance rather than tone. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.

anders_CPH said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

anders_CPH said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.

Dr.BariatricHTX said:

The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.