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[Discussion] the research peptides advice in here is 5 years out of date

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking research peptides against eGFR for 9 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

740 up / 220 down77% upvoted18 commentsid 1kmog94 Jul 2025

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u/marisol_frisk35 points·1 year ago
this is the third time this week and i love it every time
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u/hassan_ostergaard-1 point·1 year ago

Yeah, identity is the first question.

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u/analog_alphabet30 points·1 year ago

Came off after 85 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.

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u/throwaway_918215 points·1 year ago

Second this question. I have wondered about thymosin for 18 months and never seen a straight answer.

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u/anders_osei14 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Name it precisely.

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u/analog_alphabetMOD7 points·1 year ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/ingrid_correia9 points·1 year ago

Yeah, identity is the first question.

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u/boots_or_bust3 points·1 year ago

thymosin fragments, GH secretagogues, TB-500, long tail

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u/bastian_ekstrom2 points·1 year ago

Not to be pedantic but research peptides and research peptides are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/ahmed_fonseca1 point·1 year ago

Not to be pedantic but research peptides and research peptides are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 26 weeks to accept.

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u/line_demir0 points·1 year ago

The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.

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u/adnan_karlsen7 points·1 year ago

evidence-level statements required: in vitro, rodent, or human

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u/ledger_modmod · vetting6 points·1 year ago

Strongly agree. Evidence level matters.

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u/two_mil_or_one5 points·1 year ago

the thymosin literature is thin on humans

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u/hplc_hobbyistOPruns their own column3 points·1 year ago

Came off after 2 weeks for financial reasons. Regained about a third over the following year. Back on now at a much lower dose.

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