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c/customs·posted 11 months ago by u/greta_lokken

unpopular opinion: personal import is massively overrated

Country Guide Receipts ×3

Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking customs against triglycerides for 7 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/insulin_syringe_ian-1 point·11 months ago
search before post, but also, welcome
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u/britt_abubakar38 points·11 months ago

Strongly agree. Jurisdiction matters.

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u/vito_chowdhury8 points·11 months ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/TitrationTortoiseslow and boring28 points·11 months ago

This is correct. State your country always.

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u/greta_lokkenOP21 points·11 months ago

This is correct.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 27 weeks to accept.

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u/baseline_drifteranalytical18 points·11 months ago

no advice on evading inspection or misdeclaring

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u/niels_roos4 points·11 months ago

no advice on evading inspection or misdeclaring

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/ewan_tulloch16 points·11 months ago

always state your country, advice from another jurisdiction can harm you

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u/emil_wojcik9 points·11 months ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 10–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/freya_baptista3 points·11 months ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/ferran_batista4 points·11 months ago

the customs status depends on what happens at the border

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u/kian_balogun3 points·11 months ago

Not to be pedantic but jurisdiction and customs are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/greta_lokkenOP1 point·11 months ago

The muscle cramps was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.

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What happens at the border: personal-import allowances, seizure letters, declared value, research-use documentation and why it is not a magic word, and the enormous variation between jurisdictions that makes most internet advice on this topic worthless.

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