Ginkgo biloba at what most people describe as a standard dose gave me mild sedation for the first 3 days.
Forum consensus and published consensus diverged here about five years ago and never reconverged.
What surprised me is how much of the perceived benefit was routine and attention rather than pharmacology.
The evidence is usually a handful of small trials and the effect is modest.
Happy to be corrected on any of the above.
Narrow conclusion, briefly right. Broad conclusion, interestingly wrong. I know which I keep choosing.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero? Mild sedation was my main issue with ginkgo biloba too.
Narrow conclusion.
Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist. Currently on ginkgo biloba myself.
Cold storage, light protection, date on the vial. Boring, removes half the variables.
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything.
Baseline first.
Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all?
Narrow conclusion.
Cold storage, light protection, date on the vial. Boring, removes half the variables.
Where does the human data stop and the extrapolation begin? That is the whole thread.