andrew_nyc said:Hormone panel changes on the hormone panel — relevant for anyone curious about endocrine effects: Testosterone: increased 35% (weight loss reduces…
Mine went the same way, slower. Nothing to add that would improve it.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
Dr.ObesityMed said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.ObesityMed said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. A defensible baseline is short: HbA1c and fasting glucose, a lipid panel with ApoB if you can get it, ALT and AST, creatinine with eGFR, TSH, ferritin and B12, and a full blood count. That set catches the things that change, the things that explain symptoms, and the things that alter the prescribing decision. Almost everything else on the long circulating lists is either invariant, uninterpretable without a specific question, or an incidental finding waiting to cause an unnecessary workup.