Trying to separate three different claims about alpha-lipoic acid: that it is the right molecule, that it is the right dose, and that it does something useful.
Sample size, blinding, and who paid for it. Those three questions kill most of the confidence in most of these threads.
The effect size I actually noticed is roughly a third of what the write-ups imply, and it took two months to be sure.
Where does the human data stop and the extrapolation start?
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Read methods.
Sleep, food, or the compound? Yes.
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything. Same for me with alpha-lipoic acid, unfortunately.
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything. How long have you been on alpha-lipoic acid?
Baseline first. Without a baseline the after picture is decoration. Tolerance was my main issue with alpha-lipoic acid too.
Most of what is called evidence here is one person, one vial, one month.
Narrow conclusion.
Narrow conclusion.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
Cold storage, light protection, date on the vial. Boring, removes half the variables.
Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all? Two months in on alpha-lipoic acid and it lines up.
A certificate of analysis answers one question and gets quoted as though it answers four. Currently on alpha-lipoic acid myself.
This board overrates bloodwork. A number moving is not the outcome you wanted.