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c/bpc157·posted 5 days ago by u/ruben_cabrera

[Lab] three BPC vials, three vendors, purity all over the place

Lab Clean Column ×1

Quick one. Canada here.

tendon works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.

Specifics: the route I used took 18 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.

Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.

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u/mariam_cabrera0 points·4 days ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 20–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/taper_off_tabitha1 point·4 days ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/tomas_kimani1 point·4 days ago·edited

Second this question. I have wondered about tendon for 24 months and never seen a straight answer.

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u/ms_fragmenter1 point·4 days 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/throwaway_9182-21 points·4 days ago

near-zero controlled human data, full stop

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u/joaquin_ivaturi1 point·4 days ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 20–5.

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

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u/anders_vermeulen1 point·4 days ago

Slight fix: the number was 97.2, not 97.4. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/mod_cold_roommod · c/coldchain0 points·4 days ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/enzo_ferrari42 points·3 days ago

research use only, no human protocols, no injection instructions

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u/enzo_danquah14 points·3 days ago·edited

research use only, no human protocols, no injection instructions

Disagree on that part. 93.7% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance28 points·3 days ago

What are you comparing it against though?

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u/marit_sandvik13 points·2 days ago

the sequence variation is the real issue

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u/ruben_cabreraOP17 points·3 days 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/ruben_cabreraOP27 points·2 days ago

Week 66 for me and the honest summary is: 44kg down, early fullness manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.

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u/dose_diary_danalog keeper29 points·3 days ago

the tendon rodent evidence is solid, human evidence is not

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u/line_petrov34 points·3 days ago

Yeah, rodent data does not scale to humans.

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u/search_before_post19 points·4 days ago

Second this question. I have wondered about tendon for 20 months and never seen a straight answer.

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u/bence_ibarra15 points·4 days ago

Small correction: the trial was 8 weeks, not 39. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/karim_hartmann9 points·3 days ago

handlers in the community are rare and cautious

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u/rui_only_roMOD11 points·3 days ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/careful_gradient5 points·3 days ago

near-zero controlled human data, full stop

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u/ice_pack_auditcold chain3 points·3 days ago

This is correct. The naming is genuinely confusing.

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