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someone explain research peptides to me like I have not read a paper in years

Lab Cold Box ×8

Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking research peptides against triglycerides for 39 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/tb500_tangentMOD73 points·5 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/insulin_syringe_ian-37 points·5 months ago

purity and identity are two questions

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u/santiago_rasmussen54 points·5 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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u/batch_number_bertievetting13 points·5 months ago

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

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u/controversial_only20 points·5 months ago

supply-chain naming is a mess, ask for HPLC

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u/coa_forgery_watchOP12 points·5 months ago

Maintenance for 15 months now. Weight moves within about 3kg and the dose is a quarter of what it peaked at.

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u/old_account_202341 points·5 months ago

Stalled for 4 weeks, changed nothing, and it started moving again on week 27.

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u/refund_ledger30 points·5 months ago

This is correct. Name it precisely.

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