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c/retatrutide·posted 4 months ago by u/rekha_vestergaard

why does nobody talk about dose escalation

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The title is the whole question — why does nobody talk about dose escalation — but here is why I am asking.

Kept a log specifically because there is so little published. It is one person and it is not data.

Read the phase 2 paper twice before ordering anything. Recommend that to anyone in this board: the error bars are the interesting part.

Watched heart rate on a wearable across twelve weeks because the threads said to. It moved a little and I have no idea whether that means anything.

Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.

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3 in this archive, depth 2

best — the order this archive was captured in

u/heart_rate_bump47 points·4 months ago

The standing caveat, written out properly because it keeps getting compressed into a footnote.

Nothing containing this compound is approved by any regulator. Research-use-only material is not approved for human use. That is not a legal formality on this board — it is why there is so little independent data, why the escalation schedules people post are invented, and why nobody here can answer a dosing question.

What this board can usefully do is read the published trials carefully, log independent purity results, and be honest about how thin the evidence base is. Everything else belongs somewhere with a clinician in it.

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u/nadia_norgaard-4 points·4 months ago

a lot of the confident posting here is extrapolation

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u/employer_carveout1 point·4 months ago

dose escalation in the trials was slow for a reason

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