NurseKim_ATL said:The mechanism is more central than most summaries suggest.
Agreed, though "tolerable" needs defining. A dose you tolerate by eating almost nothing is not tolerated, it is being paid for somewhere else — usually in lean mass, sometimes in adherence three months later.
CarlaRPh_TPA said:The dose-response is real but shallow at the top.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes.
NurseKim_ATL said:The mechanism is more central than most summaries suggest.
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.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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