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[Question] how do you actually verify TB-500

Question Well Actually ×4

Been lurking in c/cagrilintide for about 21 months and finally have something worth posting.

Short version: week 32, 5mg, and secretagogue is the bit I still cannot get a straight answer on. I have read the wiki, I have read the last 35 threads, and the answers split roughly down the middle.

What I actually want to know is whether the people saying it does not matter have measured it, or whether it is just repeated confidently. Happy to be told I am overthinking this — I probably am — but I would rather overthink it now than at week 26.

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u/tb500_tangentMOD62 points·2 months ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/coa_forgery_watchOP37 points·2 months ago

not approved for human use, full stop

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u/cesar_oyelaran52 points·2 months ago
wrong community but useful, so, shrug
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u/ines_boateng13 points·2 months ago

Strongly agree. Evidence level matters.

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u/britt_zamora6 points·2 months ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/greta_lokken5 points·2 months ago

not approved for human use, full stop

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u/marit_laurent39 points·2 months ago

Yeah, identity is the first question.

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u/long_post_larry27 points·2 months ago

Did anything else change in the same window?

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u/tuva_iyer21 points·2 months ago

name the compound precisely, TB-500 and Thymosin Beta-4 are not the same

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u/heart_rate_bump21 points·2 months ago

everything else in the vial drawer, handling

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u/elin_varga5 points·2 months ago

the thymosin literature is thin on humans

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u/sofia_petrescu24 points·2 months ago

purity and identity are two questions

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u/santiago_rasmussen11 points·2 months ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/sofia_danquah8 points·2 months ago

Strongly agree. Evidence level matters.

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u/rui_only_ro6 points·2 months ago

How many weeks between the two measurements?

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