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c/glp1science·posted 2 years ago by u/yusuf_ramos

incretin: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1

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

I have 21 data points over 6 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 29, not week 78. 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/emil_agyeman195 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. Central appetite is real but people overstate it.

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u/the_poster_in_question_2026121 points·2 years ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/aleksi_lehtinen-3 points·2 years ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 8 weeks to accept.

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u/tomas_broberg1 point·2 years ago

the 21-day half-life means week 21 is still ramp-up pharmacokinetically

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u/milan_mensah1 point·2 years ago·edited

rodent gastric emptying tells you what to investigate, not what to expect in humans

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u/ismael_chukwu141 points·2 years ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 17 weeks to accept.

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u/camila_lindqvist104 points·2 years ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/amara_dziedzic56 points·2 years ago

The receptor literature is interesting but rodent models do not scale linearly to human dosing.

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u/incretin_ivyMOD29 points·2 years ago·edited

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

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u/tomas_lundgren23 points·2 years ago

This is correct. Rodent data is investigational, not predictive.

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u/priya_guerrero19 points·2 years ago·edited

Which paper are you quoting?

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u/zeynep_villalobos15 points·2 years ago

do not extrapolate rodent data to human dosing without saying so

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