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MeadowDale
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Bloodwork question about psyllium husk. Baseline, two years in, and the numbers moved in a direction I did not expect.

Tolerance and underdosing look identical from the inside, which is why the answer is usually a blood test and not more forums.

The effect size I actually noticed is roughly a third of what the write-ups imply, and it took two years to be sure.

Most of the popular protocols are borrowed from clinical populations and applied to healthy people without comment.

Happy to be corrected on any of the above.



   
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bluehead98
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Same here.



   
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glen_dial
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This board overrates bloodwork. A number moving is not the outcome you wanted.



   
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crag_hollow
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A certificate of analysis answers one question and gets quoted as though it answers four.



   
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lilac2424
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Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.



   
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elmcrown41
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Baseline first. Without a baseline the after picture is decoration.



   
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harbor9170
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Narrow conclusion.



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



   
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oak8163
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Same here.



   
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peak5847
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Sterility is the part people wave through and it is the part that actually bites.



   
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nettle6964
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Baseline first.



   
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wellbrook
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What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero? Two years in on psyllium husk and it lines up.



   
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wrenlatch53
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Narrow conclusion, briefly right. Broad conclusion, interestingly wrong. I know which I keep choosing.



   
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haze1546
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Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything. Currently on psyllium husk myself.



   
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kelpdock56
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Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this? Currently on psyllium husk myself.



   
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