Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.
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?
Narrow conclusion, briefly right. Broad conclusion, interestingly wrong. I know which I keep choosing. Same for me with modafinil, unfortunately.
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything. Six weeks in on modafinil and it lines up.
Narrow conclusion.
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.
Read methods. How long have you been on modafinil?
Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all?
Underdosing and tolerance are indistinguishable from the inside, and everyone picks the flattering explanation. How long have you been on modafinil?
Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.
Read methods.
Narrow conclusion.