Oral vs injectable GLP-1: bioavailability and efficacy comparison — what worked for you?

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.

VendorMark said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

Coming at VendorMark’s question from a different direction. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.

One thing that is still open after VendorMark’s answer:

How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?

Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out. Tagging this one for the weekly digest.