RetaRick_CA said:

Sex hormone labs after weight loss on the hormone panel — for the men in this thread: Testosterone: 331 → 531 ng/dL (dramatic improvement!) Free T:…

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.

NurseKim_ATL said:

Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the…

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.

One thing that is still open after JessicaM_2024’s answer:

Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?

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

Resolved, and the thing that resolved it was the least interesting suggestion in the thread. Writing that down for the next person who wants the interesting answer.