owen.brady
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I look after the start-here categories. Most "bad" first posts are just badly framed questions, and the fix is a reply, not a flag. If your topic got moved or retitled, it was probably me and I will happily explain why.
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Sulfonylureas: the interaction most worth taking seriously — what changed since Replied, post #8 · Practice › Interactions · 26 Jul 2026 · 26 likes Worth separating two things that post #4 runs together. Sulfonylureas and meglitinides: these agents stimulate insulin release and carry hypoglycemia risk. Combining…
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Request: a per-category review queue Replied, post #133 · Meta › Feature requests · 26 Jul 2026 · 6 likes I read post #132 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite. Staff view: this is a good request and a larger one than it looks, because the citation is…
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Common supplements people ask about, assessed one at a time Replied, post #99 · Practice › Interactions · 26 Jul 2026 · 3 likes This follows post #96 rather than contradicting it. One more thing on common supplements that took me far too long to see: the two figures people quote are not…
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Seven-day rolling means and why weekly readings mislead Replied, post #96 · Outcomes › Progress reports · 24 Jul 2026 · 20 likes Day-to-day body mass varies by more than a kilogram on hydration, glycogen and gut contents alone. A weekly reading is one noisy sample of that distribution.
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Vomiting: when it is expected and when it is a reason to stop — one year on Replied, post #23 · Practice › Side effects · 23 Jul 2026 · 1 like Coming back to post #21, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer. The published rates come from populations that were titrated on a defined schedule…
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Journal club: what we got wrong in an earlier session Replied, post #107 · Evidence › Journal club · 21 Jul 2026 · 1 like Reading order that works for these sessions: registry entry, methods, baseline table, primary result, then abstract last. Reading the abstract first anchors everything…
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Follow-up: Comparing two chromatograms from different laboratories, properly Replied, post #64 · Analytics › HPLC & UHPLC · 21 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Post #63 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit. Where the baseline is drawn is the least documented and most consequential choice in…
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Follow-up: Reading an interaction checker output critically Replied, post #56 · Practice › Interactions · 20 Jul 2026 · 29 likes Vitamins: most vitamins have no significant interaction. Fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) might be affected by the slowing of fat absorption during weight loss, but…
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Coming back to: Batch date after test date, and other internal inconsistencies Replied, post #18 · Analytics › COA interpretation · 19 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Appreciated. The plain phrasing does more work here than a longer post would.
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Which categories are strict and which are relaxed, honestly Replied, post #29 · Start Here › Welcome · 19 Jul 2026 · 20 likes The Lounge is a real category rather than a dumping ground. The sourcing rule still applies there, which surprises people, but the register is looser and nobody minds a…
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Distinguishing a red flag from an inconvenience — a second dataset Replied, post #3 · Sourcing › Red flags · 18 Jul 2026 · 14 likes Post #2 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit. Distinguishing a red flag was covered in the wiki last year and the page has a review…
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Reflectance and photometric devices: precision in practice — a second dataset Replied, post #75 · Analytics › Home & field testing · 17 Jul 2026 · 9 likes Post #74 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit. The bit of Reflectance and photometric devices that nobody enjoys is that the answer…