BethLabQueen said:ApoB is the more informative number and it is cheap.
Pushing back on BethLabQueen here. Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions. What is a personal-import allowance in one country is a controlled-import offence in another.
denise_HTX said:Living somewhere the domestic route does not exist, which makes most of the advice on this board inapplicable to me.
My experience ordering cross-border ordering internationally: I've ordered from a Canadian pharmacy. Customs can be hit or miss.
Shipping time: 10-21 days
Customs clearance: held for 3 days then released
Quality: Janoshik tested at 99.3% purity
International ordering adds complexity but can save 60-80% compared to US prices. Research your country's import laws first.
KevinCompounds said:Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
Worth separating that from the lipid panel, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
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View ResultsOne thing that is still open after bbq_ray_KC’s answer:
Whether an unchanged LDL-C alongside a large triglyceride fall is a good result or a bad one, because ApoB and LDL-C seem to be telling different stories?
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Closing the loop. The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.