PharmHunterJen said:baseline bloodwork + this community = winning.
No disagreement with PharmHunterJen. One condition attached. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
SandraNC_45 said:One addition: if the lab changes analytical platform between your draws, the comparison breaks and nobody tells you.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Taking it to my next appointment.
PharmHunterJen said:baseline bloodwork + this community = winning.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.