From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.

One concrete data point for the thread. 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.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

wendy_avl said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

I read this differently from wendy_avl, on substance rather than tone. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.

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