@Aude_Aliquid_Dignu if that is truly the case then I apologize.
As I explained before, we know how these compounds act in the body — these effects are well known and can be found in any college level biology/endocrinology textbook (textbooks are a top tier source). If you’d like more reliable information on what insulin is and what it breaks down into and acts in the body, I would suggest you start there.
Although meta analyses on these topics exist, they are probably old because the science on this stuff is settled and has been for decades. We can draw some reasonable conclusions based on this settled science and create a healing protocol based on that.
Something really important to keep in mind in all of this is that there aren’t studies on these compounds that focus on human performance — that is outside the scope of medical study. Stuff like insulin was originally studied and formulated to treat a specific condition — in this case, diabetes. So if you’re looking for direct information that studies and collates data for human performance, data is gonna be really thin on the ground. The best we can do in these cases is rely on what we know about how these compounds behave and how they can be used to get jacked.
Insulin is a great example though because when the original short acting insulins were introduced, the average diabetic simply couldn’t afford them. You know who could? Rich people and Hollywood celebrities used it to get jacked and thin. This is because they understood how the compounds acted in the body and how they could be used to manipulate their endocrinology to accomplish what they wanted. What we’re doing here is no different.
How is this different from LLLT? We don’t even have a theory of operation for it. We don’t know the basics of how it works or how it’s supposed to. Some studies have shown results, sure, but we can’t reproduce a lot of them, quite a lot are badly designed, nor can we articulate with any confidence it’s mechanism of action. The science is far from settled. Hence, the bar is much higher for newer, less settled therapies — they need to prove they are at least as good as the standard of care or offer some advantage over the standard of care. Right now, it is extremely doubtful that they do based on available information.
So, yes. I would call it ‘woo’ until it’s definitively proven otherwise. When they’re writing textbooks about it, I’ll happily admit I was incorrect. Because that’s how science works — we can change our minds based on new information.