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c/retatrutide·posted 1 year ago by u/devils_advocate_d

[Lab] split one vial across Medutest and Janoshik — 96.2% and 99.2%

Lab Receipts ×9 Cold Box ×1 Clean Column ×1

I have had 19 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe.

Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied by about 32 days on nominally the same lane, which matters more in summer than in February.

The independent number came back 99.0% against a claimed 99.1%, which I read as agreement rather than a discrepancy — inter-lab variance on this assay is a point or two either way and treating one lab as ground truth is how people end up in pointless arguments with vendors.

Batch number is in the comments. Ask if you want the method.

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u/janek_ferrari248 points·1 year ago·edited

Mechanistically the bit that matters is triple agonist. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/devils_advocate_dOP190 points·1 year ago

The glucagon component does different things than dual agonism. The fatigue are not just amplified versions.

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u/halima_mbeki157 points·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/devils_advocate_dOP93 points·1 year ago

phase 2 numbers are not maintenance numbers, cite the trial

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u/nikhil_asante110 points·1 year ago

nobody should be giving this to anyone without extensive monitoring

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u/yannick_salinas135 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Triple agonism is genuinely different.

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u/ismael_eriksen51 points·1 year ago

Dose escalation on retatrutide is steeper and faster than on semaglutide. Do not assume the titration patterns transfer.

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u/discount_math_dm75 points·1 year ago

nobody should be giving this to anyone without extensive monitoring

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u/devils_advocate_dOP51 points·1 year ago

Which trial arm and what was the n?

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u/marit_laurent33 points·1 year ago

phase 2 numbers are not maintenance numbers, cite the trial

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u/incretin_ivypharmacology27 points·1 year ago

Yeah, phase 2 retatrutide is interesting but it is not comparable to phase 3 compounds.

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u/kavya_kravchenko14 points·1 year ago

TRIUMPH data is phase 2, not phase 3, smaller n and shorter

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u/nordic_pricing14 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Triple agonism is genuinely different.

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u/viktor_laurent93 points·1 year ago

Dose escalation on retatrutide is steeper and faster than on semaglutide. Do not assume the titration patterns transfer.

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u/trialwatch_theotrial nerd24 points·1 year ago

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

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u/helga_vermeulen87 points·1 year ago

What was the dosing schedule in that arm?

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u/niels_lindqvist16 points·1 year ago

the 2.5mg arm is different from 5mg, results do not transfer

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u/tired_ledger_notes18 points·1 year ago

triple agonism is phase 2, do not generalise

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u/bastian_ekstrom14 points·1 year ago

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Adding to this: dose escalation is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics-14 points·1 year ago

the weight curves are unusually steep, which makes predicting individual response harder

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u/dead_space_doug7 points·1 year ago

research use only, handling and analysis, not protocols

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u/janek_ferrari24 points·1 year ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/rekha_vestergaard12 points·1 year ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

Adding to this: triple agonist is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/arne_amankwah40 points·1 year ago

research use only, handling and analysis, not protocols

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u/yannick_salinas27 points·1 year ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics0 points·1 year ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/emil_agyeman1 point·1 year ago

the glucagon component changes the side effect profile, not just the efficacy

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u/dead_space_doug13 points·1 year ago

retatrutide is not approved anywhere for human use, posts must not read as instructions

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