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On The Pen With Dave KnappAuthor: Bleav, Dave Knapp Founder of On The Pen
Dave Knapp brings you your weekly dose of everything in the news about incretin mimetic, diabetes and obesity therapies, like Zepbound and Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy, and even investigational treatments like CagriSema and Retatrutide! Language: en-us Genres: Business News, Health & Fitness, Medicine, News Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Retatrutide Weight Loss: How Much At Each Dose
Saturday, 13 December, 2025
https://www.otplinks.com 0:00 Welcome & today’s focus: Retatrutide and “chasing the biggest number” 1:11 On The Pen intro, live schedule (Mon/Wed/Fri) & housekeeping 2:10 How Dave first heard about retatrutide (work trip, early phase 1 data) 3:35 Flashback clip: early excitement about retatrutide phase 3 trials 4:40 Why this new retatrutide data feels different for obesity medicine 5:32 TRIUMPH-4 trial overview: obesity + knee osteoarthritis population 7:00 Headline results: 28.7% average weight loss, surgery-level efficacy 8:47 Breaking down weight loss by dose (9 mg vs 12 mg; 25–35% loss rates) 11:05 What “efficacy estimate” really means (race-track analogy) 13:28 Real-world view: treatment-regimen estimate (20–23.7%) vs trial ideal 15:40 Mechanism refresher: GIP, GLP-1, glucagon and why RETA differs from TIRZ 18:05 Side effects, dysesthesia/allodynia & who stopped treatment (BMI differences) 21:02 Why the lower doses matter & who actually needs 30% weight loss 24:15 From “just make the scale go down” to quality of weight loss & body composition 28:05 Future focus: health, longevity, and peptides beyond hitting goal weight 30:40 Viewer Q&A: combining RETA + TIRZ, amylin (eloralintide) combos & “talk to your doctor” 34:38 How retatrutide changes the next decade of obesity treatment conversations 37:22 News update: high-dose Wegovy 7.2 mg approval in the EU & US outlook 40:55 Orforglipron oral GLP-1: liver-signal concerns & fast-track FDA review 45:20 Why small-molecule oral GLP-1s aren’t the same as injectable peptides 48:40 New topic: Indiana “Safe Drug Act of 2025” and why Dave is concerned 51:02 Production caps, “essentially a copy” language & shifting power from prescribers to FDA 54:28 How the bill undermines personalization while ignoring real safety tools 57:05 Safety theater vs real safeguards: API sourcing, sterility & adverse-event reporting 59:45 Who actually gets hit: compliant 503A/503B compounders vs existing bad actors 1:02:05 Call to action: petition at otplinks.com & why patient voices matter 1:05:10 Change.org impact, media attention & centering the patient perspective 1:07:30 Final Q&A, subscribe, obesity.news email list & closing thanks Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.










