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Looking into whether anyone's had negative effects from pulling back retatrutide doses.
Currently running 15mg RT alongside 700mg weekly test propionate, and while it helped break through a plateau around 240lbs, there's a real question of whether the high RT amount is dampening muscle synthesis. The mechanism seems to cut both ways: chronic GCG receptor activation suppresses mTOR and muscle synthesis, but retatrutide also favors burning lipids over amino acids, so it may not be as muscle-wasting as it sounds, while the anabolics on board should be countering some of that.
So the real question is whether staying at 15mg RT is even necessary. Started at 2mg back in March, worked up gradually through 4, 6, 8, 12, and 14mg. Haven't managed a DEXA scan yet, but pushing the RT amount higher hasn't clearly sped up the weight loss.
Some people say stacking reta with anabolics makes cutting easier, just with less muscle growth. Would dialing the RT amount back down make sense here?
Currently running 15mg RT alongside 700mg weekly test propionate, and while it helped break through a plateau around 240lbs, there's a real question of whether the high RT amount is dampening muscle synthesis. The mechanism seems to cut both ways: chronic GCG receptor activation suppresses mTOR and muscle synthesis, but retatrutide also favors burning lipids over amino acids, so it may not be as muscle-wasting as it sounds, while the anabolics on board should be countering some of that.
So the real question is whether staying at 15mg RT is even necessary. Started at 2mg back in March, worked up gradually through 4, 6, 8, 12, and 14mg. Haven't managed a DEXA scan yet, but pushing the RT amount higher hasn't clearly sped up the weight loss.
Some people say stacking reta with anabolics makes cutting easier, just with less muscle growth. Would dialing the RT amount back down make sense here?
