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Indirectly, from my understanding. My contact at discord says their primary concern is LEOs of various types - which of course are under pressure from big pharma. They're also largely concerned with the controlled substances portion, since many of these vendors are also selling HGH and anabolics.

Angiogenesis and VEGF are well known factors for increasing tumor growth rates. There is no real debate in the science about this, to the point that anti-VEGF/angiogenesis therapies are a current hotbed of research for cancer treatment. BPC-157 and TB-500 promote angiogenesis and increased VEGF...

I'll note that the BPC-157 and TB-500 in both GLOW and KLOW are risks for cancer. Not necessarily in causing it, but for greatly increasing cancer growth rates via angiogenesis and VEGF. TB-500 also seems likely to increase risk of metastisization of existing cancers based on the TB4 research...

Tirz raised my heart rate some, reta raised it a lot. I'd be surprised if tirz increased your RHR but reta did not at therapeutic doses. It impacts the sympathetic nervous system the same way tirz does, and the glucagon receptor activation is an additional mechanism for increased RHR. But 2mg...

Down more than 80lb on the scale and up a bit more than 20lb of lean body mass per dexa in 10 months Tirz for 3 months then reta since then TRT (enough test to get me into the 700s of total T, 80mg deca for joints) for 9 months 4IU HGH for 6 months Hard lifting 5 days a week Some cardio, bad...

None of the current myostatin inhibitors work particularly well. Effect size is too small.

Pretty much every Chinese vendor also deals in steroids. SRY, SSA, etc. As for bodybuilding, the steroid-enhanced body building world is the one that is significantly more popular. (And I would also mention that I believe that basically every single competitive sport where steroids would be...

A lot of experts would disagree with you - I won't say there's universal agreement, but there's a wide variety of issues with BMI that many argue are so fundamental that it really is useless...

Well, I'm here for a reason, though I've moved out of the 'obese' category, and I'm getting closer and closer to that <20% bf category, too. GLP-1s are big in the bodybuilding community for helping with cuts, though, and for bodybuilders it really is a useless metric. The verbiage of the OP...

BMI is a pretty useless metric, particularly for people who engage in regular strength training. Since the OP is talking about lifting regularly, cutting phases, etc., they probably are more muscular than the average person and as such further skewed. All of this is pretty meaningless without...

Rodent studies did 50mg per kg, which translates to about 4mg per kg for humans. Even 20mg is a massive underdose for most of us compared to the studies, though human equivalent dosing isn't always exact. If SLU does anything in humans and is safe to use in general, I suspect 20mg is far more...

Produced in different facilities, packaged in different ways. Not something I am concerned about, personally.

DNP is very yellow and is used in much higher doses. The amount of DNP needed to be of concern in a peptide vial would make it very obvious that something is wrong

Prescribed for visceral fat in HIV patients on specific medications - they often have significantly impacted IGF-1 levels and egrifta is used to bring it back into the normal range. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15970280/ Personally, I think anyone with normal IGF-1 levels is increasing a...

Not actually trying to be funny there - just noting that the study doesn't account for what we might be doing. And who knows what all that might change! I find it plausible that under the right conditions, say, strong nutrient partitioning effects from AAS usage, increased lipolysis and...