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c/newbiequestions·posted 7 months ago by u/ms_fragmenter

three years of week one threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking beginner against eGFR for 13 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/rina_bergstrom122 points·7 months ago

what is a COA — certificate of analysis, document from the lab

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u/marisol_kravchenko91 points·7 months ago
saved. thank you.
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u/cato_batista29 points·7 months ago

saved.

Disagree on that part. 99.0% and 98.9% on the same vial is normal.

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u/reads_the_wiki69 points·7 months ago

Yeah, that is totally normal for week 23.

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u/nora_lundgren47 points·7 months ago

The injection was scarier than the what is itself. 3 seconds and I was shocked it was the easiest part.

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[removed]35 points·7 months ago

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u/not_my_main_nm46 points·7 months ago·edited

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

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u/liver_enzyme_liz35 points·7 months ago·edited

what is bac water — bacteriostatic water, preservative included

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u/neha_falk0 points·7 months ago

what is bac water — bacteriostatic water, preservative included

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 17 weeks to accept.

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u/rt_shift_reggie48 points·7 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/second_week_sceptic15 points·7 months ago

Not to be pedantic but week one and beginner are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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