Dr.PulmRoch said:Albumin binding above 99% is the whole reason weekly dosing works, and it is also why the trough matters more than the peak.
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.
fiona_glasgow said:All true, with one condition: that curve is for people who reached the dose on schedule.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion.
Dr.PulmRoch said:Albumin binding above 99% is the whole reason weekly dosing works, and it is also why the trough matters more than the peak.
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.
Worth separating that from semaglutide, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
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