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

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

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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…

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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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