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c/retatrutide·posted 2 months ago by u/rohan_cardoso

phase 2 vs triple agonist — genuinely asking which matters more

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

I have been tracking retatrutide against triglycerides for 31 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/bilal_osei558 points·2 months ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

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u/renzo_yildiz186 points·2 months ago

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

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u/yannick_barros123 points·2 months ago

phase 2 numbers are not maintenance numbers, cite the trial

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u/emil_wojcik312 points·2 months ago

Which trial arm and what was the n?

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u/rohan_cardosoOP-33 points·2 months ago

research use only, handling and analysis, not protocols

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u/nadia_norgaard1 point·2 months ago·edited

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

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u/trialwatch_theotrial nerd152 points·2 months ago

What was the dosing schedule in that arm?

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u/trialwatch_theotrial nerd186 points·2 months ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/bilal_osei130 points·2 months ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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[deleted]48 points·2 months ago

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u/bilal_osei34 points·2 months ago

triple agonism is glucagon, do not generalise

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u/halima_mbeki20 points·2 months ago

nobody should be giving this to anyone without extensive monitoring

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u/rohan_cardosoOP117 points·2 months ago

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

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u/yusuf_ramos42 points·2 months ago

the 0.5mg arm is different from 0.25mg, results do not transfer

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u/signe_villalobos121 points·2 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/zeynep_mbeki97 points·2 months ago·edited

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

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u/rohan_cardosoOP48 points·2 months ago

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

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

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u/jarno_cabrera76 points·2 months ago

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

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u/ewan_zielinski45 points·2 months ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/marit_laurent23 points·2 months ago

phase 2 numbers are not maintenance numbers, cite the trial

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u/ewan_zielinski16 points·2 months ago

triple agonism is phase 2, do not generalise

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u/renzo_yildiz0 points·2 months ago

Strongly agree. Heart rate escalation needs the actual data, not impressions.

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u/aa_analysis_andy59 points·2 months ago

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

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u/rui_only_ro35 points·2 months ago

Small correction: the trial was 17 weeks, not 38. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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