EndoResFellow said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
That holds for the injectable. The oral formulation has different absorption behaviour and the dose numbers are not interchangeable, which is worth saying out loud because people quote them as if they were.
pam_columbus said:The mechanism that matters here is not stomach emptying, it is central.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
EndoResFellow said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
I will push back on the "any working dose is fine" framing. The maintenance evidence sits overwhelmingly at the top studied dose, and the extension data shows regain tracking dose reduction rather than tracking stopping. Holding low is reasonable; pretending it is evidentially equivalent is not.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne concrete data point for the thread. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.