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c/glp1science·submitted 11 months ago by u/runa_cabrera

reading half-life threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly

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Something I keep coming back to: reading half-life threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. Long half-life in this class comes from structural modification that promotes albumin binding and resists enzymatic degradation. Weekly dosing is a consequence of the molecule, not a convenience decision. GIP receptor…

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u/elodie_grimaldi91 points·11 months ago

Careful — you have a plausible mechanism and no evidence that it is the operative one in the case you are describing.

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u/plain_titration25 points·11 months ago

Careful — you have a plausible mechanism and no evidence that it is the operative one in the case you are describing.

Disagreeing with this specific inference — that is a preclinical result being read as human pharmacology.

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u/whois_wanda6 points·11 months ago

Yes. The central component is the one that explains the reports on this site better than gastric emptying does.

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u/runa_cabreraOP14 points·11 months ago

Does the effect persist with continued dosing or does tolerance develop?

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u/aleksi_eriksen7 points·11 months ago

preclinical is not clinical and rodents are not small people

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u/niels_roos5 points·11 months ago

a mechanism you can state is not a mechanism you have demonstrated

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u/rina_bergstrom24 points·11 months ago

Careful — you have a plausible mechanism and no evidence that it is the operative one in the case you are describing.

Adding the caveat the paper itself makes in its limitations section, which is stronger than anything in this thread.

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