sarah_TO said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
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.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
rick_sfbay said:Steady state is the thing most people miss.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Taking it to my next appointment.
sarah_TO said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The trial means are being read too generously in this thread. STEP populations were selected, supported, and titrated by protocol, and the real-world curves are consistently a few points worse. That difference is not noise, it is what happens when you remove the study infrastructure.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
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I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
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