PurityPaulOR said:Sex hormone labs after weight loss on the hormone panel — for the men in this thread: Testosterone: 359 → 559 ng/dL (dramatic improvement!) Free T:…
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.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.
NurseKim_ATL said:I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
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Shop Reference StandardsFollowing on from DanielChem_CHI — and this may be the naive question:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
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.