switched from 1.0mg to 2.5mg and the reflux got better, not worse
Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.
I have been tracking maintenance against triglycerides for 25 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.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.
food noise returns but not always immediately
You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.
nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part
the long term question changes at maintenance
Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.
Water content matters more than people think.
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
Retitled to remove editorialising.
Disagree on that part. 97.4% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.
Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.
state how long you have been at maintenance, week 8 is not maintenance
state how long you have been at maintenance, week 15 is not maintenance
Strongly agree. Lowest effective dose is a real discovery process.
Strongly agree.
Adding to this: goal weight is doing more work than the comment implies.
Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.
The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.
This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.
the plateau is where the learning happens
This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.
lowest effective dose is lowest effective dose, find it or stay higher
the long term question changes at maintenance
Not to be pedantic but goal weight and dose stretching are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.
Tried the lowest-effective approach. 0.5mg worked for 6 weeks, then cravings returned. 1.7mg was the actual floor.
regain after taper is expected, plan for it
Not to be pedantic but regain and lowest effective dose are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.
Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.
the plateau is where the learning happens
Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.
Slight fix: the number was 98.7, not 98.9. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.
the plateau is where the learning happens
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