Dr.NateNeph said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Pushing back on Dr.NateNeph here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
Dr.NateNeph said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
Dr.NateNeph said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
roxy_nash said:Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth.