Flairing this Speculation because that is what it is. Orforglipron is a small molecule, not a peptide. ATTAIN-1 and ACHIEVE-1 (both NEJM , 2025) reported the efficacy…
Orforglipron
c/orforglipron · created 25 Feb 2024
Oral non-peptide GLP-1. No food restrictions, no cold chain.
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a pill with no food restrictions and no cold chain changes this entire site, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. It is a non-peptide…
ATTAIN-1 numbers, and why the % is not the headline. I have gone back and forth on this for months. Read both programme names carefully after mixing them up in a…
Trying to get a straight answer on this: small molecule means purity testing is a different problem, right. What is actually known, and what is being assumed. Known: it…
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Reference standardswhat happens to the research-peptide supply chain if this lands. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source. Read both programme names…
ACHIEVE-1 glycaemic data vs the injectables, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. Spent an evening reading about small-molecule agonism at a…
non-peptide agonism is a genuinely different engineering problem. I have gone back and forth on this for months. Read both programme names carefully after mixing them…
reading non-peptide threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. The no-timing-restriction thing…
why does nobody talk about ACHIEVE — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. Analytically this is a small-molecule identity and purity…
79 weeks, 21kg, and non-peptide was the hard part, and the part I actually want to talk about is at the bottom. Numbers, in the order they matter: 79 weeks and 21kg.…
Trying to get a straight answer on this: help me understand non-peptide, I have read the wiki twice. Went looking for independent testing on this and found essentially…
Here it is: anyone else notice oral GLP-1 kicking in around week 56. One person, one log, no control group, so read it accordingly. Why "oral" is doing two completely…
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: reading ATTAIN threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. Milligram comparisons across molecule classes are…
three years of small molecule threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Analytically…
Something I keep coming back to: switched from 10mg to 15mg and constipation got better, not worse. Since the title puts numbers in the shop window: 10mg and 15mg.…
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glbiochem.netHere it is: 12 months in and orforglipron is still the thing I get wrong. One person, one log, no control group, so read it accordingly. The relevant figures are 12…
Genuine question, and the title is the question: why does nobody talk about non-peptide. The no-timing-restriction thing is the part I would care about most in…
ACHIEVE: what the trials say vs what this community says. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Daily rather than weekly sounds trivial…
Reporting in. 55 weeks on 5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring. The relevant figures are 55 weeks and 5mg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole…
week 66 check-in — 26kg down, fatigue manageable, one thing confusing me. Full detail below, and I have tried to keep the editorialising out of it. Pulling the figures…
genuine question about oral GLP-1 that I am slightly embarrassed to ask. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source. Daily dosing gives a very…
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: am I the only one who found oral GLP-1 harder than the injections. The no-timing-restriction thing is the part I would care…
8 months in and orforglipron is still the thing I get wrong, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair. The relevant figures are 8…
unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about non-peptide is guesswork. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. The…
proposal — a flair for ACHIEVE posts. Disagreement welcome, but bring a concrete alternative wording. Why "oral" is doing two completely different jobs in the sentences…