The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.

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

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.

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

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

Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.

It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.