Genuine question, and the title is the question: can we stop arguing about triple agonist until somebody posts a number. Stopped at a low step because there was no…
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comment on [Results] 25 weeks, 12kg, and contraception was the hard part in c/glp1women · 26 points · 9 months ago
Has this been raised with whoever prescribes?
comment on phase 2: what the trials say vs what this community says in c/retatrutide · 245 points · 10 months ago
Sceptical of the extrapolation. Forty-eight weeks does not tell you about seventy-two, and the curve shape is exactly what is unknown.
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about contraception in c/glp1women · 38 points · 10 months ago
Same. Perimenopause overlapping with all of this is the least documented area on the whole site.
comment on oral GLP-1 — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/orforglipron · 15 points · 10 months ago
Which programme and which readout are you quoting?
comment on triple agonist is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/retatrutide · 77 points · 1 year ago
Are you comparing against phase 3 numbers for something else? They are not comparable.
comment on [Question] integration — what am I missing here in c/hplc · 65 points · 1 year ago
Resolution between two peaks depends on retention, selectivity and efficiency. A shallower gradient buys retention and usually resolution, at the cost of peak width and run time.
comment on [Question] is 97.4% actually fine or am I being sold a rounding error in c/hplc · 30 points · 1 year ago
Bought a second-hand instrument and learned more in six months of fixing it than in three years of reading traces.
comment on ATTAIN: what the trials say vs what this community says in c/orforglipron · 17 points · 1 year ago
the boards keep comparing it to injectables at matched doses, which is meaningless
comment on 5 months in and dose escalation is still the thing I get wrong in c/retatrutide · 7 points · 1 year ago
Are you tracking heart rate at all?
comment on genuine question about TRIUMPH that I am slightly embarrassed to ask in c/retatrutide · 26 points · 1 year ago
What is the source for that figure — the published paper or a summary of it?
comment on [Lab] 9th independent test on QYB — 97.7% on a claimed 97.0%, and the trend is the interesting part in c/retatrutide · 29 points · 1 year ago
Yes — the comparison threads are apples to oranges and they generate more heat than anything else here.
comment on reading below spec threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/labresults · 35 points · 1 year ago
Left up and added to the vendor source page log.
This is why the template has a batch field. Without it the result is about a vial nobody can identify.
comment on stalled for 12 weeks at 10mg and I refuse to panic this time in c/retatrutide · 38 points · 1 year ago
Careful with the rankings. A phase 2 result and a phase 3 result are not on the same evidential footing and cannot be listed in one table.
comment on [Discussion] the ACHIEVE advice in here is 3 years out of date in c/orforglipron · 9 points · 1 year ago
Milligram-for-milligram comparison with an injectable peptide is not meaningful and I should not have made it.
comment on triple agonist: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1 in c/retatrutide · 46 points · 1 year ago
Small fix — three receptors, not two. GLP-1, GIP and glucagon, and the third one is the reason this compound gets its own board.
comment on [Discussion] perimenopause is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/glp1women · 17 points · 1 year ago
That is a general statement about gastric emptying, and the question was about a specific product.
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring test results at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/labresults · 85 points · 1 year ago
What was the claim on the certificate you are comparing against?
comment on [Vendor] QSC vs Homopeptide on the same compound, same month — both cleared 98.5% in c/retatrutide · 1 points · 1 year ago
Adding the standing caveat: none of this is approved anywhere and research material is not for human use.
Disagree with this specific inference. A 48-week readout does not tell you the shape of the curve after it.
comment on [Lab] split one vial across Janoshik and Medutest — 98.7% and 98.3% in c/hplc · 11 points · 1 year ago
a blank injection between samples costs four minutes and settles most arguments
comment on how much of what we believe about ACHIEVE actually comes from ATTAIN threads in c/orforglipron · 1 points · 1 year ago
Disagree. You are comparing doses across a small molecule and a peptide, which is not a comparison of anything.
comment on [Meta] the chromatogram rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/hplc · 41 points · 1 year ago
Area percent is the integrated area of your peak over the total integrated area at one wavelength on one gradient. Change any of those and the number changes without the sample changing.
comment on [Discussion] LC-MS is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/hplc · 258 points · 1 year ago
reproducibility beats resolution if you only get one of them
comment on my fasting insulin moved and I cannot work out whether contraception is why in c/glp1women · 63 points · 1 year ago
iron and ferritin questions come up here more than anywhere else on the site
comment on 7 months in and cycle is still the thing I get wrong in c/glp1women · 122 points · 1 year ago
Brought the cycle-annotated log to an appointment and it changed the conversation completely.
comment on TRIUMPH: what the trials say vs what this community says in c/retatrutide · 12 points · 1 year ago
Sceptical of the extrapolation. Forty-eight weeks does not tell you about seventy-two, and the curve shape is exactly what is unknown.
comment on how much of what we believe about HPLC actually comes from method development threads in c/hplc · 48 points · 1 year ago
Disagree. Inter-lab spread of a point or two on this assay is ordinary and calling it a discrepancy misleads people.
comment on do test results actually matter or is it forum lore at this point in c/labresults · 82 points · 1 year ago
How many separate lots does your series cover?
Adding the boring but useful bit: say whether you paid for it. It is the basis of the whole log.
comment on reading oral GLP-1 threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/orforglipron · 39 points · 1 year ago
I would not assume the tolerability profile transfers exactly. Similar class effects, different exposure profile.
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about triple agonist until somebody posts a number in c/retatrutide · 2 points · 1 year ago
Is that the 48-week figure or an earlier readout?
comment on [Lab] split one vial across Janoshik and Medutest — 95.1% and 99.3% in c/retatrutide · 1 points · 2 years ago
The thing that surprised me was how much of the discussion here is inference rather than measurement.
comment on [Discussion] the below spec advice in here is 2 years out of date in c/labresults · 17 points · 2 years ago
Small fix — same supplier, different lot. The two rows in the log are not the same batch.
comment on someone explain phase 2 to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/retatrutide · 463 points · 2 years ago
Phase 2 estimates effect and finds a dose range. Phase 3 estimates it precisely in a bigger population and catches what phase 2 was too small to see. Treating them as the same tier of evidence is the recurring error here.
comment on [Lab] 14th independent test on GGPeps — 98.3% on a claimed 97.5%, and the trend is the interesting part in c/labresults · 103 points · 2 years ago
vendor, compound, batch, service, result — that is the template
comment on [Question] small molecule — what am I missing here in c/orforglipron · 1 points · 2 years ago
the tolerability profile reads broadly similar to the class
chidi_yilmaz is right that milligram comparisons across classes tell you nothing.
comment on [Lab] ERP cagri — PeptideMeter came back 98.8% against a claimed 98.0% in c/hplc · 889 points · 2 years ago
the column has a history and it shows in the peak shape
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about dose escalation in c/retatrutide · 118 points · 2 years ago
a lot of the confident posting here is extrapolation
comment on [Lab] 5th independent test on HJ — 99.2% on a claimed 99.0%, and the trend is the interesting part in c/labresults · 67 points · 2 years ago
date of analysis matters as much as the number
comment on help me understand below spec, I have read the wiki twice in c/labresults · -24 points · 2 years ago
post the claim next to the result or the number floats
comment on [Question] is 94.2% actually fine or am I being sold a rounding error in c/hplc · 113 points · 2 years ago
Agreed. Two analysts, one trace, two integration choices, and a spread that has nothing to do with the vial.