paige_pharma said:

It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.

No disagreement, though it depends on where somebody is starting from, and this thread has been assuming a starting point nobody stated.

BiostatsBrad said:

Exercise transformation with training: went from barely able to walk a block to completing a 5K last month.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. I will report back once I have actually tried it.

paige_pharma said:

It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.

Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. 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.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. Carry on.