Long post, sorry. Ginkgo biloba: what actually has human evidence behind it, and what is extrapolation from animals?
Cold storage, light protection, and a date on the vial. Boring, and it removes half the variables.
Baseline first. Without a baseline the after picture is decoration.
My rule now: if a claim cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing.
The comparison group matters more than the compound when the outcome is something as fuzzy as focus.
The evidence is usually a handful of small trials and the effect is modest.
Posting to be argued with, mainly.
Baseline first.
Sleep, food, or the compound? Yes.
Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all?
Same here.
Same for me with ginkgo biloba, unfortunately.
Read methods.
Read methods.
Read methods.
Same here.
Underdosing and tolerance are indistinguishable from the inside, and everyone picks the flattering explanation.
Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at.
If it needs three other compounds to notice, you have not tested the first one.