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c/glp1muscle·submitted 7 months ago by u/mikkel_correia

[Discussion] can we stop arguing about FFMI until somebody posts a number

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Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: resistance training matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 14 months without either producing anything. What would actually settle it is 31 people…

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u/nl_verzekering14 points·7 months ago

The fatigue was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.

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u/mikkel_correiaOP6 points·7 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/lina_bruun3 points·7 months ago

DEXA twice yearly is the pattern

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u/viktor_laurent1 point·7 months ago

Yeah, protein matters on rapid loss.

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u/emil_okwuosa1 point·7 months ago·edited

DEXA is the real measurement

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u/nikhil_asante2 points·7 months ago

This is correct. DEXA is the standard.

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