LindaRN_retired said:

There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.

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.

DerekSJ_a1c said:

Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.

Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Taking it to my next appointment.

LindaRN_retired said:

There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.

Pushing back on LindaRN_retired 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.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.

Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out. No action needed from anybody.