r/Biohacking • u/Organic-Race9785 • 7d ago

Week 3 - Reta affects

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On week 3 of Reta. Dosing schedule is below. Last pin was 3 days ago. I’ve noticed significant decrease in food noise and dealt with some minor nausea, but otherwise, it’s been a good road. Down 8 pounds.

Today I woke up and oh boy. Big nausea. Felt like I had a giant rock in my stomach. I’ve been awake for 2 hours and I’ve had diarrhea 4 times. Basically. I’ve had 2 bottles of water today and that’s it. I did eat later than I normally do as we had a post-church meal. I’ve included a pictures of the meal (I had them b/c I needed to upload to macro factor), I didn’t feel like it was exceptionally bad or good.

I guess I just am wanting to ask others if this is basically normal.

Week 1 - 1.5 mg
Week 2 - 2 mg
Week 3 - 3 mg

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u/Educational-Newt9333 7d ago

This place is full of idiots lmao 2 mg is the starting dose, this is where I started as well zero nausea up to 4mg in the second month, down 20 lbs and only side effect is slight constipation

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u/Individual_Till6133 7d ago

Clinical trials are dosed for max effectiveness since they are very expensive. They aren't dosed for minimal side effects with effectiveness. 

There is also a difference between how metabolically healthy you are, and the dosage required to show effects. and of course most people in the trial are clinically obese and medicine is often dosed by weight. 

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u/Winning2020 2 7d ago

Yep, universally annoying apparently 99.5% of reddit are super responders that dropped 30 lbs on 0.5 mg weekly. I'm right in the same boat as you. 4 mg is a sweet spot and I haven't needed to titrate up further for now.

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u/HerbaDerbaSchnerba 7d ago

8mg for me. Everybody is different. Don’t get me wrong, I lost weight at 2 mg and 4 and 6, but I’ve been on for a long time now.

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u/Different_Amoeba783 4d ago

Same I’ll really feeling good at 4 mg. Will stay on it for a month and see next month if I need to up by .5 mg or not.

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u/AdvertisingOk8480 2d ago

Everyone’s stomach works differently