genuine question about lowest effective dose that I am slightly embarrassed to ask
Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud.
The advice on dose stretching in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the same confidence.
I have listed what I think the current consensus is below. Correct me — that is the point of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Mechanistically the bit that matters is dose stretching. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.
Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.
Tried the lowest-effective approach. 7.5mg worked for 2 weeks, then cravings returned. 0.5mg was the actual floor.
Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.
Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.
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Slight fix: the number was 97.6, not 97.4. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.
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Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 57 weeks to accept.
dose-stretching experiences welcome, dose-stretching instructions are not
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The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.
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the lowest dose you can stay on is not the lowest dose that works
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