Dr.PathRoch said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
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.
Dr.PathRoch said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Agreed on the ranges, with the condition that a single DEXA is not a measurement, it is one draw from a distribution. Hydration status moves the lean compartment by a kilogram or more between scans, so any comparison of scans done at different times of day or different hydration states is noise.
Worth separating that from lean-mass preservation, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
Dr.PathRoch said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
That reframing is the part I needed.
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Shop Reference StandardsFrom the other side of the consultation, briefly. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
LipidDoc_ATL said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Second this. Posting only so the count is not one.