LipidDoc_ATL said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.

One concrete data point for the thread. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.

Following on from LipidDoc_ATL — and this may be the naive question:

What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?

BethLabQueen said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

I read this differently from BethLabQueen, on substance rather than tone. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.

BethLabQueen said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.