LindaRN_retired said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
LindaRN_retired has the substance of this right. The condition it depends on is worth stating. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
mike_mod said:My experience ordering cross-border ordering internationally: I've ordered from a Canadian pharmacy.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
LindaRN_retired said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. 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.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.