Long post, sorry. Whey protein: what actually has human evidence behind it, and what is extrapolation from animals?
What surprised me is how much of the perceived benefit was routine and attention rather than pharmacology.
The measured outcome and the hoped-for outcome are rarely the same thing in these threads.
Vivid dreams and mild headache for the first 13 days, then nothing. Textbook for this class, apparently.
What the protein class does pharmacologically does not require the subjective effect to be large to be real.
Happy to be corrected on any of the above.
Same here.
A certificate of analysis answers one question and gets quoted as though it answers four.
Most of what is called evidence here is one person, one vial, one month.
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet. Eight months in on whey protein and it lines up.
Baseline first.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this? Tolerance was my main issue with whey protein too.
Reconstitution arithmetic is only half the problem. The other half is what was in the vial.
Most of the popular protocol is borrowed from a clinical population and applied to healthy people without comment.
Same here.
Same for me with whey protein, unfortunately.
Same here.
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.