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c/coa·posted 1 months ago by u/anya_moreau

anyone else notice water content kicking in around week 50

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Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles.

The claim: certificate of analysis matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 24 months without either producing anything.

What would actually settle it is 27 people measuring the same thing the same way. I have started; my numbers are below. They lean one way but not strongly enough for me to declare victory.

If you have data, post the data. If you have an opinion, flair it as an opinion.

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u/nadia_fonseca270 points·1 months ago·edited

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 18–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/zaid_balogun243 points·1 months ago

Yeah, 96.8% area is not the problem, the missing impurity breakdown is the problem.

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u/coa_collectorMOD176 points·1 months 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/purity_pedantanalytical134 points·1 months ago

no "is this good?" without saying what the compound and claimed purity are

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u/bastian_moreau47 points·1 months ago

area% is not mass%, and here is exactly why it matters

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u/dario_vermeulen90 points·1 months ago·edited

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/india_generic_g67 points·1 months ago

no "is this good?" without saying what the compound and claimed purity are

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

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u/kavya_verhoeven55 points·1 months ago

the batch number or it did not happen

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u/katrin_girard141 points·1 months ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/tomas_lehtinen36 points·1 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/anya_moreauOP89 points·1 months ago

post the whole document, not the headline number

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u/anya_moreauOP70 points·1 months ago

post the whole document, not the headline number

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 47 weeks to accept.

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u/aurel_boateng22 points·1 months 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/tidy_vialdrawer_watch28111 points·1 months ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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u/isabela_nilsen56 points·1 months ago
search before post, but also, welcome
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u/noor_cardoso40 points·1 months 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/first_hundred26 points·1 months ago

purity and net content are two different numbers, same vial

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u/anya_moreauOP12 points·1 months ago

Strongly agree. Mass% and area% are answering different questions on the same document.

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u/yara_antonsen5 points·1 months ago

Strongly agree.

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

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u/kavya_verhoeven25 points·1 months ago

post the whole document, not the headline number

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u/milos_vanhecke20 points·1 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/teodor_jansen6 points·1 months ago

post the whole document, not the headline number

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u/alcohol_aversion24 points·1 months ago

purity and net content are two different numbers, same vial

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u/spreadsheet_gremlindata30 points·1 months ago

Water content on the document? That affects your concentration math.

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u/yara_antonsen15 points·1 months ago

redact your own name, not the vendor's batch details

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u/zeynep_zielinski6 points·1 months 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/laila_yilmaz3 points·1 months ago

the method line is doing real work, not just window dressing

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u/valeria_karlsen-4 points·1 months ago

area% is not mass%, and here is exactly why it matters

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_pls19 points·1 months ago

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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