SarahChen_PharmD said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Coming at SarahChen_PharmD’s question from a different direction. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.
Old thread, but it comes up first when you search for this, so it is worth updating. 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.
One thing that is still open after SarahChen_PharmD’s answer:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
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View ResultsMarkLI_maint said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Pushing back on MarkLI_maint here. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.
MarkLI_maint said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.