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c/glp1science·posted 4 months ago by u/ferran_batista

receptor: what the trials say vs what this community says

Speculation Long Haul ×5 Slow Clap ×1

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

I have 2 data points over 40 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 94, not week 48. 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/swirl_dont_shakereconstitution189 points·4 months ago

The half-life is 6 hours, which means week 6 is genuinely still ramp-up. Week 14 is steady state.

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u/ferran_batistaOP90 points·4 months ago

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

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u/ferran_batistaOP143 points·4 months ago

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

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u/ferran_batistaOP0 points·4 months ago

gastric emptying is real and explains most early nausea

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u/fatima_kowalski0 points·4 months ago

the 7-day half-life means week 7 is still ramp-up pharmacokinetically

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u/ferran_batista110 points·4 months ago

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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u/titration_marshalmod · c/semaglutide49 points·4 months 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/milan_mensah-24 points·4 months ago

Yeah, the incretin mechanism is doing the work here.

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u/wholesome_lurker1 point·4 months 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/trialwatch_theotrial nerd1 point·4 months ago·edited

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

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u/noor_hovland1 point·4 months ago

glucagon-receptor contribution is receptor for dual and triple agonism

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u/niels_roos1 point·4 months ago

incretin physiology is receptor, the mechanism layer

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u/milos_vanhecke1 point·4 months ago

do not extrapolate rodent data to human dosing without saying so

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u/rina_bergstrom1 point·4 months ago

amylin is not GLP-1, posts conflating them get corrected

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u/vomit_free_since1 point·4 months ago

Is that mechanism or speculation?

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