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c/labresults·posted 2 years ago by u/mariam_cabrera

test results vs Janoshik — genuinely asking which matters more

Lab Receipts ×4 Long Haul ×2 Cold Box ×3

Week 93 update. 4kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 50.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with muscle cramps.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/thandi_solberg366 points·2 years ago·edited

Strongly agree. Below-spec results matter as much as good ones.

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u/matias_falk155 points·2 years ago

Which VendorInvestigate service and what method did they use?

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[deleted]68 points·2 years ago

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u/enzo_fonseca327 points·2 years ago

Is that 98.4% area or mass?

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u/emil_agyeman244 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. Below-spec results matter as much as good ones.

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u/whois_wanda105 points·2 years ago·edited

Which Medutest service and what method did they use?

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u/mariam_cabreraOP-31 points·2 years ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 17–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/mariam_cabreraOP1 point·2 years ago

Was that the vendor COA or your own test?

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u/mariam_cabreraOP212 points·2 years ago

TFC product, VendorInvestigate test, 97.9% result, batch 3, 15 days in transit. Logged.

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u/kenji_demir192 points·2 years ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/arne_restrepo82 points·2 years ago

Yeah, the Janoshik number matching the claim is the actual signal.

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u/piotr_nascimento22 points·2 years ago

Yeah, the Janoshik number matching the claim is the actual signal.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/milos_trevino9 points·2 years ago

below-spec results get logged, not dismissed

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u/due_diligence_dee125 points·2 years ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/peptidemeter_patMOD95 points·2 years ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa155 points·2 years ago

Yeah, the Medutest number matching the claim is the actual signal.

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u/medutest_mel40 points·2 years ago

testing the vendor claim versus testing your actual vial are two different posts

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u/meera_sandvik10 points·2 years ago

Was that the vendor COA or your own test?

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u/lukas_vermeulen104 points·2 years ago

My Medutest result matched the vendor COA exactly, which is rare. KP deserves that note in the directory.

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u/runa_wikstrom82 points·2 years ago

the 99.0% result confirmed the vendor claim, that is the signal

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u/endotoxin_elliemicro48 points·2 years ago

sample of one, say so

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u/phase_two_pete69 points·2 years ago

below-spec results get logged, not dismissed

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u/marisol_moreau18 points·2 years ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/kenji_kimani54 points·2 years ago·edited

reship and retest is the honest way to handle a low result

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u/mod_ambulatoryadmin30 points·2 years ago

reship and retest is the honest way to handle a low result

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 11 weeks to accept.

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u/medutest_mel38 points·2 years ago

Yeah, the Janoshik number matching the claim is the actual signal.

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u/santiago_rasmussen53 points·2 years ago

SGN / BPC / batch 13 / Janoshik / 96.2% — that is the shape

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa36 points·2 years ago

Was that the vendor COA or your own test?

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