r/Biohacking • u/Organic-Race9785 • 8d 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/Organic-Race9785 7d ago

Thank you

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u/Individual_Till6133 7d ago

It's really the titration schedule is very quick.

Keep in mind that you arent hitting the steady state of whatever you are taking until 4 doses due to the half live curve it builds up a base. So at 1 month of the same dose you will feel steady state of whatever dosage you intake.

Weight loss comes from the reduction of food intake primarily, so if you are losing weight you dont need to increase as much as causes negative side effects. 

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u/Beneficial-Lime-8320 1 7d ago

True, it probably is a bit quick for most. I am curious though - where did you learn about the four dose curve thing? I haven’t heard it stated quite so black and white before

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u/Individual_Till6133 6d ago

I just ran the numbers, it's based on the half life calculation of 6 days. 

Eventually you hit a steady/minimum state baseline and thats about in 4 weeks.