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c/bloodwork·posted 1 year ago by u/burned_once_twice

tried A1c for 9 weeks. here is what happened.

Question Receipts ×4 Long Haul ×2

Right, the ApoB question again, but with numbers this time.

I have 16 data points over 4 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and boring enough that nobody is going to screenshot it, which is usually a good sign.

The thing I would flag for anyone new: the effect I am describing showed up at week 58, not week 12. People give up long before the interesting part.

Interested in whether this matches other people's logs or whether I am an outlier.

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u/yara_mensah166 points·1 year ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch95 points·1 year ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 3–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/coldchain_karencold chain75 points·1 year ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/gustav_cardoso26 points·1 year ago

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

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u/emil_okwuosa6 points·1 year ago

redact identifying details from lab PDFs before posting

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u/forest_plot_fionastats50 points·1 year ago
source?
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u/coring_the_stopper39 points·1 year ago

redact identifying details from lab PDFs before posting

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u/customs_seizure_sid28 points·1 year ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/burned_once_twiceOP17 points·1 year ago

post reference ranges with your numbers, units differ by country and lab

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u/bac_water_banditreconstitution16 points·1 year ago

A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty

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u/liver_enzyme_liz13 points·1 year ago

Do you have baseline to compare to?

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u/lina_falk18 points·1 year ago

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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u/mateusz_achebe14 points·1 year ago

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

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u/hugo_pires11 points·1 year ago

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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u/lipid_panel_larryMOD30 points·1 year ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/cardio_endpoint_c10 points·1 year ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/blank_injection18 points·1 year ago

redact identifying details from lab PDFs before posting

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u/diego_sorensen10 points·1 year ago

ApoB over LDL-C, that is the hierarchy

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u/copay_card_cc5 points·1 year ago

redact identifying details from lab PDFs before posting

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u/santiago_rasmussen7 points·1 year ago

ApoB over LDL-C, that is the hierarchy

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

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u/ahmed_fonseca2 points·1 year ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/burned_once_twiceOP24 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. ALT is where you catch the liver story early.

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u/laila_yilmaz-1 point·1 year ago

ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first

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u/jarno_karlsen19 points·1 year ago

Crossposting this to c/dosinglogs because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/intent_to_treat9 points·1 year ago

Baseline fasting insulin: 98.9. Week 59: 98.6. Same lab, fasted, same time of day. Trend matters.

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u/vito_chowdhury13 points·1 year ago

post reference ranges with your numbers, units differ by country and lab

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u/micro_bump_mick8 points·1 year ago

ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first

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What to measure before you start, what to re-measure, and how to interpret movement without panicking. ApoB over LDL-C, HOMA-IR as a crude free tool, ALT and the fatty-liver story, eGFR noise during rapid loss, and the deficiencies that a 1,100-calorie appetite will hand you.

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