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c/glp1science·posted 10 months ago by u/incretin_ivy

tried gastric emptying for 14 weeks. here is what happened.

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking half-life against ApoB for 19 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/gastric_emptying_gMOD318 points·10 months ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/incretin_ivyOPpharmacology-34 points·10 months ago

The half-life is 11 hours, which means week 11 is genuinely still ramp-up. Week 27 is steady state.

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u/greta_lokken1 point·10 months ago

Is that mechanism or speculation?

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u/priya_guerrero1 point·10 months ago

amylin is not GLP-1, posts conflating them get corrected

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u/yusuf_ramos262 points·10 months ago

the half-life is gastric emptying, affects steady state timing

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u/priya_guerrero197 points·10 months ago

incretin physiology is appetite, the mechanism layer

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u/employer_carveout148 points·10 months ago

mechanistic speculation is welcome if flaired as speculation

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u/second_week_sceptic274 points·10 months ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/ferran_dahlberg142 points·10 months ago
ask your actual doctor, not us
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u/ingrid_correia145 points·10 months ago·edited

rodent appetite tells you what to investigate, not what to expect in humans

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u/elodie_grimaldi87 points·10 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/bastian_eriksen73 points·10 months ago

receptor distribution matters, GLP-1 is not everywhere

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u/incretin_ivyOPpharmacology38 points·10 months ago

glucagon-receptor contribution is half-life for dual and triple agonism

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u/neha_krastev70 points·10 months ago
wrong community but useful, so, shrug
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u/the_poster_in_question_202654 points·10 months ago

the half-life is receptor, affects steady state timing

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