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c/coa·posted 1 year ago by u/first_hundred

switched from 1.7mg to 1.0mg and the fatigue got better, not worse

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Genuinely asking, not being difficult.

Everyone in c/scamalerts repeats that batch is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 22 threads of people agreeing with each other.

Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because it has been repeated since 2023?

I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.

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u/cormac_pereira514 points·1 year ago·edited

This is the correct framing. The COA structure matters as much as the number.

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u/dead_space_doug494 points·1 year ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/hugo_bergstrom170 points·1 year 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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u/wrong_network_w138 points·1 year ago·edited

the related substances line is where the story is

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u/nadia_kjaer317 points·1 year ago

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

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u/first_hundredMOD181 points·1 year ago·edited

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

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u/spreadsheet_gremlindata72 points·1 year ago

axis labels included, always

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u/soren_nkemelu-38 points·1 year ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/meera_sandvik1 point·1 year ago·edited

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

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u/amira_dumitru1 point·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/amira_dumitru1 point·1 year ago

the related substances line is where the story is

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u/first_hundredOP1 point·1 year ago

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

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

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u/emil_agyeman107 points·1 year ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/sunday_shot_sal78 points·1 year ago

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

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u/receptor_bias_rick46 points·1 year ago

purity and net content are two different numbers, same vial

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u/blunt_coldbox2994 points·1 year ago

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

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u/milos_trevino41 points·1 year ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/tuva_aalto10 points·1 year ago

Batch number and date of analysis? Both are load-bearing.

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u/amira_dumitru5 points·1 year ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with area percent, not with what you concluded.

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u/sofia_danquah56 points·1 year ago

purity and net content are two different numbers, same vial

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u/low_appetite_lisa45 points·1 year ago

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

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u/cato_achebe15 points·1 year ago

Are you looking at area% or net peptide content? Different numbers.

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u/first_hundredOP9 points·1 year ago

Sent one vial to PeptideMeter and VendorInvestigate. 93.7% and 99.1%. Cost me more than the vial did and I would do it again.

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u/dario_vermeulen51 points·1 year ago

PDF metadata is checkable in fifteen seconds

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u/blunt_coldbox2927 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/sofia_danquah11 points·1 year ago

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

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u/marisol_frisk14 points·1 year ago

The COA I was holding said 96.8% area and I thought it was trash. Turns out the method was solid and the impurity profile was clean.

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