TinaHashiRN said:

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…

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.

Happy to go further on any of that.

OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.

Coming back a few months on. It held. Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.

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

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

Found this through search years later and it is still the best discussion of the question, so adding one thing. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.

Dr.EndoEP said:

Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.

True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.