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    Thoughts on tesa?

    To the best of my (non-expert) knowledge there is no reason to believe that tesa and HGH actually function any differently in regards to visceral fat. We do not know of any mechanism on which tesa acts on VAT or body fat in general outside of increased GH production.
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    Thoughts on tesa?

    Why do you think GH secretagogues don't carry the same risks as exogenous HGH dosed at levels to give you the same amount of GH/IGF-1/etc.? Because a GH secretagogue increasing your natural production to the same level as you would get from exogenous HGH carries those same risks. A tesa/ipa...
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    Reuters: FDA to screen all imports, exemptions for low-value shipments revoked

    None of this matters for our purposes - our vendors are not declaring our shipments as items under FDA jurisdiction. The FDA won't review them unless CBP passes it along after it's already been seized, but it would already have to have been confiscated by CBP to begin with.
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    Let's talk GLP1's downfall - MUSCLE LOSS

    Monoclonal antibodies are massively more difficult to produce than peptides or steroids. It's not impossible - China produces plenty of monoclonal antibodies in general - but they're a lot more expensive and the production capacity is more limited in general. I wouldn't expect to see these in...
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    If this was you, how would you proceed?

    You don't need to freak out and massively change your diet if there's just one or two weeks of stagnation but fundamentally yes, you need fewer calories in. You might need to adjust your macro ratio if energy is a problem, or potentially look at intentional maintenance periods, carb cycling...
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    If this was you, how would you proceed?

    That's the problem - as much as we want to praise these drugs, they actually aren't magic in the bottle. They help us with the CI by reducing appetite and CO by increased metabolism (with reta). SGLT2 inhibitors help by preventing us from absorbing some glucose and instead pissing it out, so...
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    If this was you, how would you proceed?

    This is a lot of words that say absolutely nothing to dispel the facts of CICO. It basically just says that CO isn't a static number and is impacted by a lot of factors, including medication, hormones, etc. Which, well, yeah, of course. No one here is arguing otherwise. My experience is that...
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    Let's talk GLP1's downfall - MUSCLE LOSS

    About 1g per lb of lean body mass. As a newbie, pretty much any new stimulus to a muscle will work, but in the medium to long term, you have to take the muscle close to failure to provide it the level of stimulus needed to signal to your body to either preserve or grow it. I personally think a...
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    TikTok is really creating problems in this space.

    There have been a variety of people saying that that is explicitly their reason for using a CC on the forums over the time that I've been here. Also people that have opened paypal/alibaba disputes, etc. And vendors give chargebacks and disputes as explicit reasons as to why they don't accept them.
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    TikTok is really creating problems in this space.

    As someone who has been unfortunate enough to be hearing about crypto since you could get multiple bitcoin for a penny: Porn was not the primary use case for it. Just as it is with us, it was buying drugs. Silk Road was a big name, but drug buying sites on TOR predate crypto and they all...
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    Korean Skincare Grey Market??

    Another +1 for acecosm. I grab my glutathione there, arrives quickly and in good condition. No real desire for the DIY botox that a lot of people use them for, though.
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    Lowering LDL and raising HDL

    Doctors in America seem to really not know too much about it, somehow. My PCP didn't even realize it existed before I mentioned it to him the first time, said he'd read up on it. Next time I saw him he told me he was now presenting it as an option for patients where they're catching the...
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    Lowering LDL and raising HDL

    Glad you were able to get on it and get a doctor willing to work with you. Sucks when they just ignore things that are important like the fact you're taking the same active ingredient in unknown quantities, purities, etc. as actual pharmaceuticals... I've actually swapped from rosuvastatin to...
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    If this was you, how would you proceed?

    There are thousands of factors that can impact your CO even if you are perfectly counting your CI. You're literally taking drugs that manipulate the CO. Again: This is governed by the laws of reality. Arguing against this is arguing against basic physics, and it's silly. Your body obeys the...
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