u/boots_or_bust

say whether you paid for it yourself

Week 50: 24kg down, injection-site soreness basically gone since about week 10, and the honest headline is that nothing dramatic happened. It was boring and it worked.

Yes — and the honest version is that most of the "it stopped working" posts turn out to be a normal fortnight of water weight.

The escalation schedule in the trials existed to keep people on the drug.

Right, and the timescale is the bit that keeps getting lost. Judge a step at a month, not at a weekend.

I would separate documentation from logistics. A supplier can be excellent at one and ordinary at the other, and averaging them hides it.

Why the directory has two tiers, since the question comes up whenever somebody new finds it.

Twenty suppliers have enough independent results, over enough separate lots, over enough time, that the log says something. Those get a page, a test table and a link to their own storefront so you can compare their claims with the record.

The rest — nearly two hundred names — get a row, a band and a report count. Not because they are bad, but because two results is an anecdote about a vial. Manufacturing a score out of that would make the whole directory worthless, and the contrast is the point.