A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
PeptideSynthNJ said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.
PeptideSynthNJ said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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Browse GL BiochemPeptideSynthNJ said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.