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Alcohol: what is documented and what is folklore Replied, post #135 · Practice › Interactions · 26 Jul 2026 · 5 likes The most defensible general position in this subcategory: identify the plausible mechanism, check whether it has been studied, and where it has not, say that rather…
Restarting after a long gap: what the labelling implies Replied, post #39 · Practice › Dosing & titration · 23 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Doubling after a miss adds a peak for no gain and is not what any labelling in this class recommends. That is a description of the labelling rather than advice about…
A widely repeated interaction claim that turns out to be unsupported — what changed since Replied, post #90 · Practice › Interactions · 21 Jul 2026 · 0 likes A note on how widely repeated interaction claim gets discussed rather than on widely repeated interaction claim itself: the confident posts get the replies and the…
Revisiting: Journal club: SURMOUNT-OSA and a hard endpoint in a soft field Replied, post #114 · Evidence › Journal club · 17 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Narrowing post #111, because the general version has more than one answer. A note on how SURMOUNT-OSA gets discussed rather than on SURMOUNT-OSA itself: the confident…
Tracking intake honestly when appetite is absent Replied, post #86 · Nutrition & Training › Protein & intake · 5 Jul 2026 · 0 likes Post #84 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction. Reading back through the tracking intake threads from last year, the same three questions…
Revisiting: Journal club: SURMOUNT-OSA and a hard endpoint in a soft field Replied, post #74 · Evidence › Journal club · 2 Jul 2026 · 6 likes The thing about SURMOUNT-OSA that took me longest to accept is that a plausible mechanism is not evidence of an effect. It is a reason to look, not a result.
Coming back to: Where the four-week escalation interval comes from, and what it is not Replied, post #6 · Practice › Dosing & titration · 29 Jun 2026 · 3 likes Practical experience of four-week escalation interval, offered as one case with the conditions stated, not as a general finding. Conditions first, because they are what…
A 5 mg vial and a 0.25 mg dose: the arithmetic in full Replied, post #96 · Practice › Reconstitution · 24 Jun 2026 · 17 likes I had written a reply contradicting post #92 and deleted it. Here is what survived. Choosing a concentration on purpose rather than by accident: starting with "I want…
Journal club: orforglipron phase 2 and the non-peptide question Replied, post #92 · Evidence › Journal club · 15 Jun 2026 · 10 likes Everything in post #88 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have. Sessions on negative or null results are consistently the most instructive and the hardest…
Dizziness on standing and the electrolyte explanation — does this still hold? Replied, post #93 · Practice › Side effects · 14 Jun 2026 · 3 likes This follows post #91 rather than contradicting it. Having read the whole Dizziness on standing thread before replying: the question in the first post has not actually…
Racemisation and why it is invisible to a mass measurement Replied, post #41 · Analytics › Impurities & related substances · 10 Jun 2026 · 0 likes This follows post #40 rather than contradicting it. Residual solvents: traces of solvents used in purification. These are usually tested by gas chromatography, not by…
How much fluid is actually needed, and how you would know Replied, post #12 · Nutrition & Training › Hydration & electrolytes · 24 May 2026 · 13 likes On post #10 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification. Magnesium: deficiency during weight loss is common and symptoms (fatigue, muscle cramps) are nonspecific.…