Fortnightly digest · 2025-04-07 → 2025-04-20
the triple agonist gets read properly instead of admired
A second wave of interest in retatrutide arrived and the channel handled it better than the first. The Phase 2 paper was read in full, including the tolerability tables, and the heart rate logging habit established last summer meant the room had its own small pile of data to put beside it. Low and slow held as the consensus without much argument.
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What happened
- The retatrutide Phase 2 result in NEJM 2023 was discussed for its adverse event profile as much as its efficacy, which is not how it usually gets quoted.
- Eleven members had heart rate baselines from before starting, which made their reports far more useful than the enthusiasm of a year earlier.
- The glucagon arm was discussed as a mechanism with consequences rather than as a marketing feature of a molecule.
- One member stopped after four weeks on the strength of their own data and posted the whole log, which the channel considered the best outcome available.
- noct.titrate maintained the position that anybody running this without daily observations is generating no information at all.
Channels this fortnight
#retatrutideRetatrutide. Triple agonist. Research use only. No long-term safety data.12 logs · 299 msgs#bloodworkBaseline panels, A1c lag, apoB, lipase, eGFR. Bring the actual numbers.6 logs · 140 msgs#side-effectsNausea, constipation, the month-four shed, and when to stop reading chat and see somebody.8 logs · 168 msgs
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cagri_curiousright so how do you tell a synthesis house from somebody with a sticker printer48 reactions · #vendor-talk · 2025-04-13yyz_vialsignature requirements slow things down and do not obviously reduce loss46 reactions · #shipping-customs · 2025-04-15pinch_not_stretchone variable at a time or you learn nothing, which is unpopular in a channel full of stacks45 reactions · #other-peptides · 2025-04-15reship_ritaprices have moved since44 reactions · #uk-ireland · 2025-04-09tokyo_taperlyophilised powder is far more robust than people think. it is the solution that is fragile42 reactions · #reconstitution · 2025-04-08factory_direct_fiswitched from 15 semaglutide and started at 2.5, took the slow route, never regretted it42 reactions · #tirzepatide · 2025-04-10endotoxin_edcheck the lot42 reactions · #coa-reading · 2025-04-20blind_submitcoming back to this the results in this channel skew because people test when they are suspicious. that is selection bias and it…40 reactions · #test-results · 2025-04-13
Busiest logs in this fortnight
#tirzepatide · 2025-04-12does switching from semaglutide need a gap or do you just start54 msgs#reconstitution · 2025-04-13bac water53 msgs#vendor-talk · 2025-04-13support answering in two days is good. answering in nine is a data point about the whole operation53 msgs#semaglutide · 2025-04-16my dose day drifted from friday to sunday, does that reset anything going slow cost me nothing except time…53 msgs#test-results · 2025-04-13log the lot number52 msgs#semaglutide · 2025-04-11STEP is several trials, so saying STEP said x is usually wrong without a number after it51 msgs#dosing-titration · 2025-04-19hold50 msgs#bloodwork · 2025-04-19my alt has come down a lot since i started losing, is that expected49 msgs#semaglutide · 2025-04-20unrelated but i stayed on 1.7 for 11 months and never went to 2.4, appetite was already where i needed it,…47 msgs#reconstitution · 2025-04-20anyone got a photo of what a properly dissolved vial looks like47 msgs#semaglutide · 2025-04-12does the licensed ceiling for weight differ from the diabetes one46 msgs#reconstitution · 2025-04-08Testing queue: 5 submissions open, 70 awaiting dispatch.45 msgs