[PSA] food noise is not what most of this community thinks it is
food noise is not what most of this community thinks it is. That is the post. The justification is underneath. The escalation schedule in the trials existed to keep people on the drug. It is a tolerability ramp, and it is why the label reads the way it does. Steady state after a dose change takes four to five…
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use, so anything in this thread about how a compounded or research vial "should" behave is a chemistry discussion, not a dosing one.
Genuine question — is the appetite effect still there, or is it just the scale that has paused?
Careful. A four-week stall is inside normal variation and treating it as failure is how people escalate for no reason.
How long was the stall before you decided it was a stall?
How long was the stall before you decided it was a stall?
Adding one thing to this: the appetite effect and the scale run on separate clocks, so both halves can be true at once.