Cold storage, light protection, date on the vial. Boring, removes half the variables.
Sterility is the part people wave through and it is the part that actually bites.
Baseline first. Currently on whey protein myself.
Where does the human data stop and the extrapolation begin? That is the whole thread.
Most of the popular protocol is borrowed from a clinical population and applied to healthy people without comment.
Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all? Not on whey protein but the pattern is familiar.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything? Tolerance was my main issue with whey protein too.
Same here.
Eight months in on whey protein and it lines up.
Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.
Narrow conclusion, briefly right. Broad conclusion, interestingly wrong. I know which I keep choosing.
Narrow conclusion.
Where does the human data stop and the extrapolation begin? That is the whole thread.
Same here.
My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing. Same for me with whey protein, unfortunately.
Narrow conclusion.