Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.

Same here.

What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero?

Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?

Baseline first. Without a baseline the after picture is decoration.

An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.

If it needs three other compounds to notice, you have not tested the first one.

Same here.

Baseline first.

Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?

Reconstitution arithmetic is only half the problem. The other half is what was in the vial.

Narrow conclusion, briefly right. Broad conclusion, interestingly wrong. I know which I keep choosing.

Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.

Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.

Read methods.