From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.
pat_auckland said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Second this. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
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Shop Reference Standardspat_auckland said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Coming at pat_auckland’s question from a different direction. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.