Long post, sorry. LL-37: what actually has human evidence behind it, and what is extrapolation from animals?
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero?
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
I would take the narrow conclusion. Broad ones are more interesting and less true. Not on LL-37 but the pattern is familiar.
Most of the popular protocol is borrowed from a clinical population and applied to healthy people without comment.
Sleep, food, or the compound? Yes.
Underdosing and tolerance are indistinguishable from the inside, and everyone picks the flattering explanation.
Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.