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c/bpc157·posted 1 year ago by u/nikhil_lindqvist

why does nobody talk about regulatory

Question Long Haul ×5 Sourced ×1

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 2.4mg to 0.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 9 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 muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 83 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/mod_cold_roommod · c/coldchain361 points·1 year ago

near-zero controlled human data, full stop

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u/source_or_silence250 points·1 year ago·edited

near-zero controlled human data, full stop

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/joaquin_ivaturi291 points·1 year ago·edited

research use only, no human protocols, no injection instructions

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u/ice_pack_auditcold chain153 points·1 year ago

handlers in the community are rare and cautious

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u/kavya_verhoeven-21 points·1 year ago

This is correct. The naming is genuinely confusing.

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u/dario_bakken204 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/runa_cabrera0 points·1 year ago

Yeah, rodent data does not scale to humans.

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u/bruno_dumitru194 points·1 year ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/gas_fee_grump50 points·1 year ago

regulatory status changed in 6 countries, check yours

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u/mod_cold_roommod · c/coldchain23 points·1 year ago

regulatory status changed in 6 countries, check yours

Adding to this: regulatory is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/neha_rahimi7 points·1 year ago·edited

handlers in the community are rare and cautious

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u/enzo_fonseca9 points·1 year ago

research use only, no human protocols, no injection instructions

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u/clara_danquah53 points·1 year ago

the sequence literature looks promising but rodent-only

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u/dose_diary_danalog keeper24 points·1 year ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/incretin_ivypharmacology104 points·1 year ago·edited

near-zero controlled human data, full stop

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u/sofia_ferreira49 points·1 year ago

tendon and rodent data literature in rodents is interesting

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u/adaeze_krastev20 points·1 year ago

tendon and rodent data literature in rodents is interesting

Disagree on that part. 97.9% and 97.6% on the same vial is normal.

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u/nikhil_lindqvistOP24 points·1 year ago

What was the batch number and which service?

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u/mariam_mensa12 points·1 year ago

Slight fix: the number was 96.8, not 94.2. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/asks_dumb_questions57 points·1 year ago

tendon and pentadecapeptide literature in rodents is interesting

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u/hamza_weiss51 points·1 year ago

Yeah, rodent data does not scale to humans.

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u/neha_rahimi40 points·1 year ago·edited

This is correct. The naming is genuinely confusing.

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u/nikhil_lindqvistOP15 points·1 year ago

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

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u/pavel_kravchenko23 points·1 year ago

BPC pentadecapeptide is a naming problem, three things are called this

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u/zaid_eriksen13 points·1 year ago

the regulatory literature looks promising but rodent-only

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u/ismael_chukwu8 points·1 year ago

regulatory status changed in 23 countries, check yours

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