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c/glp1muscle·posted 8 months ago by u/freya_onwuka

three years of protein threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

Discussion The Quiet One ×7 Sourced ×3

Genuinely asking, not being difficult.

Everyone in c/cagrilintide repeats that sarcopenia is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 4 threads of people agreeing with each other.

Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because it has been repeated since 2023?

I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.

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u/oskar_kaufmann257 points·8 months ago

Australia here. Waited 20 months on a list, gave up, went private, and the total cost was roughly what I expected.

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u/dario_boateng76 points·8 months ago

Week 40 for me and the honest summary is: 41kg down, nausea manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

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u/zaid_roos227 points·8 months ago

Which country? Half the answers in this thread only apply in the Netherlands.

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u/adaeze_cabrera182 points·8 months ago·edited

DEXA is the real measurement

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u/freya_onwukaOP-25 points·8 months ago

The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.

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u/meera_oyelaran112 points·8 months 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/lina_bruun163 points·8 months ago

Australia here. Waited 11 months on a list, gave up, went private, and the total cost was roughly what I expected.

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u/hamza_zielinski113 points·8 months ago

Genuine question — what concentration were you at?

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u/annika_fonseca109 points·8 months ago

lean mass retention is the 54 week conversation

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u/sunday_shot_sal62 points·8 months ago

rapid loss plus no protein equals muscle loss

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u/rania_salinas42 points·8 months ago

lean mass retention is the 71 week conversation

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u/erez_yilmaz64 points·8 months ago

DEXA twice yearly is the pattern

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u/arne_amankwah26 points·8 months ago

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

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u/freya_onwukaOP10 points·8 months ago

Second this question. I have wondered about lean mass for 6 months and never seen a straight answer.

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u/emil_okwuosa39 points·8 months ago

Did anything else change in the same window?

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u/dario_stanescu10 points·8 months ago

body-composition claims need a method

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u/adaeze_cabrera46 points·8 months ago

Did anything else change in the same window?

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

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u/kian_verhoeven24 points·8 months ago

resistance training is sarcopenia not optional

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u/throwaway_wl202655 points·8 months ago

bathroom BIA scales are not a method

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u/tobias_vukovic79 points·8 months ago

How many weeks between the two measurements?

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u/nl_verzekering14 points·8 months ago

rapid loss plus no protein equals muscle loss

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u/alcohol_aversion8 points·8 months ago

Genuine question — what concentration were you at?

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