20 months in and half-life is still the thing I get wrong
gastric emptying. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/intlshipping is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort gastric emptying out first, and almost nobody does. I say this having got it wrong for 12…
The receptor literature is interesting but rodent models do not scale linearly to human dosing.
Small correction: the trial was 10 weeks, not 8. Does not change your point but people will quote it.
incretin physiology is receptor, the mechanism layer
the half-life is incretin, affects steady state timing