Most of the popular protocol is borrowed from a clinical population and applied to healthy people without comment.

Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.

Where does the human data stop and the extrapolation begin? That is the whole thread.

Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.

The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time. Currently on a members-only area myself.

An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.

Loose evidence and no evidence are different, and people overcorrect in both directions.

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

Same here.

Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.