Name the active ingredient, not just the brand. It makes these threads searchable years later.
Cold storage, light protection, date on the vial. Boring, removes half the variables.
Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at.
Most of the popular protocol is borrowed from a clinical population and applied to healthy people without comment. Currently on lion mane myself.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Underdosing and tolerance are indistinguishable from the inside, and everyone picks the flattering explanation.
A plausible mechanism is not an outcome, and this class is the textbook example.
Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all? How long have you been on lion mane?
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything. How long have you been on lion mane?
Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all?
Where does the human data stop and the extrapolation begin? That is the whole thread.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?