SUSTAIN-6 to SELECT — my results so far

KevinCompounds said:

The dose-response is real but shallow at the top.

All true, with one condition: that curve is for people who reached the dose on schedule. Anyone who slowed the ladder for tolerability is on a different, flatter curve, and comparing yourself with the published mean will make you feel like a non-responder when you are not.

JakeBK_lifts said:

Agreed, though "tolerable" needs defining.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.

KevinCompounds said:

The dose-response is real but shallow at the top.

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.

CanadaChris said:

Prescribed on cardiovascular grounds rather than for weight, and almost everything written for patients assumes the opposite.

CRP reduction on cardiovascular risk — this is the lab result that excites me most:

Baseline hsCRP: 10.0 mg/L (high cardiovascular risk)
Month 6 hsCRP: 2.5 mg/L (moderate risk)
Month 12 hsCRP: 0.7 mg/L (low risk)

This level of inflammatory marker reduction is comparable to what you'd see with statin therapy. Combined with the weight loss, my 10-year ASCVD risk score dropped from 17% to 5%. My cardiologist is genuinely impressed.

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