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c/maintenancephase·posted 8 months ago by u/nabila_espinoza

reading regain threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly

Results Receipts ×4 Well Actually ×2 Cold Box ×3

long term. That is the whole post, but I will justify it.

Everything else people worry about in c/hplc is downstream of it. Titration speed, muscle cramps, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort long term out first, and almost nobody does.

I say this having got it wrong for 10 months. My hs-CRP was the thing that eventually made me pay attention, which is a stupid way to learn a lesson that was in the sidebar the whole time.

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u/gradient_goblin718 points·7 months ago

The plateau is real and boring. 42 weeks at the same weight, then movement again. Patience was the intervention.

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u/incretin_ivypharmacology390 points·7 months ago
appreciate you saying you do not know
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The part nobody posts about: what happens at goal weight. Finding a lowest effective dose, dose-interval stretching, regain risk data, muscle retention, the psychology of not having a number to chase, and staying on indefinitely versus tapering.

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