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[Meta] the identity rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining

Discussion Well Actually ×3 Receipts ×2

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 1.7mg to 0.25mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 10 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have reflux I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 40 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/yannick_barros177 points·1 year ago

This is correct. Name it precisely.

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u/viktor_erdogan153 points·1 year ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/rania_salinas103 points·1 year ago

not approved for human use, full stop

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u/marisol_frisk57 points·1 year ago

not approved for human use, full stop

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 92 weeks to accept.

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u/cold_chromatogram_only-12 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/sofia_danquah76 points·1 year ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/ingrid_correia50 points·1 year ago·edited

not approved for human use, full stop

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u/honest_syringe2428 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/tb500_tangentMOD16 points·1 year ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/chain_confirm_cpayments18 points·1 year ago

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

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u/heart_rate_bump24 points·1 year ago

thymosin fragments, GH secretagogues, secretagogue, long tail

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u/coa_forgery_watch7 points·1 year ago

Yeah, identity is the first question.

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u/yusuf_achebe6 points·1 year ago

purity and identity are two questions

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u/due_diligence_deeOP4 points·1 year ago

purity and identity are two questions

Disagree on that part. 98.7% and 98.9% on the same vial is normal.

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u/reads_the_wiki3 points·1 year ago

the 5-letter analogs are speculative

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u/old_account_20231 point·1 year ago

research use only, handling and analysis, not administration

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u/naomi_antonsen10 points·1 year ago

Has anyone actually got this in writing, or is it forum lore at this point?

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u/erez_yilmaz3 points·1 year ago

the research peptides literature is thin on humans

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u/ines_boateng0 points·1 year ago

How many weeks between the two measurements?

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u/line_demir13 points·1 year ago·edited

name the compound precisely, TB-500 and Thymosin Beta-4 are not the same

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u/tuva_iyer16 points·1 year ago

Did anything else change in the same window?

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u/piotr_grimaldi7 points·1 year ago

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

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u/heart_rate_bump5 points·1 year ago

research use only, handling and analysis, not administration

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u/coa_forgery_watch1 point·1 year ago

the 9-letter analogs are speculative

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u/bence_ibarra9 points·1 year ago

name the compound precisely, TB-500 and Thymosin Beta-4 are not the same

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u/cesar_oyelaran4 points·1 year ago

Yeah, identity is the first question.

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