These are not reviews and they are not evidence. They are observations about behaviour: who ordered, who reordered, who read the COA, who switched suppliers (nobody). If you want the part that is evidence, that's what the symptom pages are for.
How the group started
It started as three of us and a text thread. Somebody's friend had asked a question none of us could answer, so one of us went and read the actual study, and then couldn't stop reading. The thread became a group. The group got a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet got tabs. At some point I realised I'd been writing the same explanations over and over and started putting them somewhere.
It's about a dozen women now. Forties and early fifties, mostly. Different bodies, different histories, different doctors, and a shared allergy to being sold a consult.
Things I've watched happen
- The one who said she'd 'just get a vial to look at' has reordered more times than anyone. She still opens every COA and compares the lot number to the label. Every time.
- Someone built the spreadsheet: lot numbers, purity results, dates, supplier. It's colour-coded. We have never once needed it, which is the entire point of keeping it.
- Two of them asked their doctors first. Both were told some version of 'I can't advise on that.' Both went home and read more. Neither switched suppliers.
- The most-asked question in the chat is not 'does it work.' It's 'did yours come yet?' The answer is Tuesday. It is always Tuesday.
- Not one of us has switched suppliers. Not once. In a category where roughly a third of vials fail independent testing, that's the only kind of review I'm comfortable writing.
- Every new person gets the same welcome: the disclosure, the 'please talk to your doctor,' and a link. Same link every time. You can guess which.
- The skeptic of the group — the one who benchmarks everything against her HRT — is still the skeptic. She's also still in the chat, still reading, and still ordering from the same place. I trust her opinion more than anyone's.
What I'm deliberately not telling you
Whether anyone feels different. I'm not going to write 'she has more energy' or 'her sleep improved' about anyone, because I can't verify it, it isn't evidence, and it would turn this page into the exact thing I built this site to avoid. If a friend of mine tells me something changed for her, I believe her, and I keep it in the chat.
What I can verify is boxes, seals, lot numbers and who keeps ordering. So that's what's on this page.
The bridge to the supplier, said plainly
When something is finally working for you — whatever that means to you — the last thing you want is for the thing itself to be the variable. The compound being different this month than last. The vial being half what the label says. That's why the supplier is the decision, why we check COAs like it's a hobby, and why the group's answer to 'where' comes back in four seconds.
Affiliate link. Nobody in the group is named, photographed, or quoted; the wording is mine.