Dr.MetabolicMD said:Albumin binding above 99% is the whole reason weekly dosing works, and it is also why the trough matters more than the peak.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Halving the dose and calling it splitting is not the same intervention, and this thread keeps mixing them. One changes the schedule; the other changes the exposure.
The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Worth knowing that the injection site changes very little. Abdomen, thigh and upper arm are bioequivalent for semaglutide, so a site change is not a plausible explanation for a bad week.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
KevinCompounds said:Halving the dose and calling it splitting is not the same intervention, and this thread keeps mixing them.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Steady state is the thing most people miss. The terminal half-life is about a week, so every dose step takes four to five weeks to fully express itself. Judging a step at day ten is judging the ascent, not the plateau, and it is the single commonest reason people escalate before they needed to.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne thing that is still open after Dr.DermMIA’s answer:
How much of the between-person variation is pharmacokinetic and how much is just adherence measured badly?
Reporting back.
Six weeks on from posting: I stopped reading the weekly number and started reading a four-week average, and the "stall" I opened this thread about was a 1.8kg loss I could not see.