hyun_seoul said:Steady state is the thing most people miss.
Agreed, though "tolerable" needs defining. A dose you tolerate by eating almost nothing is not tolerated, it is being paid for somewhere else — usually in lean mass, sometimes in adherence three months later.
Dr.DermMIA said:The oral formulation has different absorption behaviour and the dose numbers are not interchangeable, which is worth saying out loud because people…
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hyun_seoul said:Steady state is the thing most people miss.
I will push back on the "any working dose is fine" framing. The maintenance evidence sits overwhelmingly at the top studied dose, and the extension data shows regain tracking dose reduction rather than tracking stopping. Holding low is reasonable; pretending it is evidentially equivalent is not.
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Worth separating that from semaglutide, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
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