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Mostly? I have not heard of a single instance where government authorities have gone after a user of grey weight loss peptides.

Many folks won't see good results until they get to the higher doses.

It's too late to edit my own post, but yes, I meant to refer to Dr. Jason Fung.

Surprisingly, I have never lost money when sending crypto. I always worry that I'll do it wrong but it hasn't happened yet.

I'll pass on a suggestion that I haven't tried myself and about which I'm skeptical. There is a nephrologist, Dr. Jason Fund, who advocates for fasting, often multi-day fasts, to help lose weight. He said that people who do those fasts lose any loose skin. I suspect if that if that worked...

Agreed, This isn't the best drug, although ten years ago it would have seemed like a miracle. However, the lower cost and ability to avoid using a syringe will result in many people taking it who wouldn't take the other medications.

My cardiologist thought that my blood pressure was not likely to go down much. However, it ended up dropping enough that I was able to stop taking one blood pressure medicine. Blood pressure is weird. Thin, fit people can have high blood pressure. Weight loss improved my lipids. It got...

When SRY and SSA disappeared, prices went up. I haven't checked prices in the last month or two, but it would be nice if they're heading down. I believe that peptides will continue to go down in price as the manufacturers get more experience making them. Semaglutide is dirt cheap and...

My quick read of the proposed bill mentioned in this thread is that it only applies to compounding pharmacies that are selling their stuff out of state. It may be mean that people who get compounded GLP-1 drugs will have to get them in-state.

Here is an unlocked Wall Street Journal article on the subject: Loftus & Miller (Dec. 11, 2025). Eli Lilly Reports Dramatic Weight Loss in Next-Gen Obesity-Drug Trial - Experimental drug retatrutide is found to help patients lose weight, reduce knee pain...

Sometimes you do. Sometimes I become a little upset. Sometimes I'm glad that you're posting the stuff that I would like to post but I am too wimpy to do so. Sometimes you make me think. I prefer, in general, that there be a wide variety of acceptable opinions. I'm not suggesting we talk...

The reta weight loss results were about what I would have expected from the phase 2 trials. Yes, the weight loss was greater but the study lasted longer. The side effects similarly seemed to be about the same as in the phase 2 trials. Still this is very good news. The phase 2 results were...

Perhaps However, they were medically supervised and got to hear the advice from medical professionals. It looks like we'll have to wait for the study results to be published before we'll know.

@AndyPanda. I was working out. I actually worked out far more before starting weight loss medication. I started these drugs when I realized that I was unable to stop myself from eating as much as I was eating. Was it a lack of self-discpline? In a way: If I had perfect self-discipline, I'd...

It sounds like your bariatric surgery result was reasonably good. You didn't have bad side effects and you lost a large amount of weight, although you likely still wanted to lose a great deal more.

Thanks for posting the results. Here is an article commenting on the results: First Retatrutide phase 3 data, a Triumph of Science! https://the-incretins.beehiiv.com/p/first-retatrutide-phase-3-data-a-triumph-of-science. The author points out some good and bad things that I hadn't noticed...

There will be less need for weight loss surgery. Some folks will likely still require retatrutide to lose weight before the surgery and will have to resume taking reta at some point after the surgery. It's good that weight loss surgery will be less necessary. I have read about and watched...

Here is the link: Eli Lilly (Dec. 11, 2025). Lilly's triple agonist, retatrutide, delivered weight loss of up to an average of 71.2 lbs along with substantial relief from osteoarthritis pain in first successful Phase 3 trial. PR Newswire...

The law that I talked only dealt with (1) the distribution of syringes by pharmacists and doctors and (2) the legalization of possession of them without a prescription by users. I'm aware that the increased money that California has spent on deal with homelessness hasn't done much, if...

I am absolutely not being facetious. If we went by natural selection, then I would have already have died due to thyroid cancer. As to choosing that lifestyle, I'm not philosophically opposed to any restrictions that affect one's thinking. But I do want to know that the restriction is...

You're crazy if you don't eat the crust. No true pizza junkie doesn't eat crusts.

I'm all for people being obtain syringes without a prescription. On one hand, there are the people like me and you who use them for GLP-1 drugs. However, on the other, the drug addicts need clean syringes. You're going to have a hard time stopping addicts from injecting themselves. To stop...

I used to represent folks in court charged with possessing syringes in California. The last time I did so was about 15 years ago. However, I have been handling more serious cases since then.

Previously, California had passed a few measures temporarily permitting people to possess needles and syringes without a prescription. Those laws were to expire on January 1, 2026. However, those have since been made permanent. Still only doctors and pharmacists, and in some cases...

Everything we do carries risks. Taking GLP-1 drugs, even name brand versions, carries risk. Not taking them when you need them also carries risk. You seem to have a healthy attitude - you take reasonable steps to lower risk. You acknowledge that there is still a risk.

Thanks for the explanation.

I wouldn't use them. The danger is not so much sterility. Rather, it's degradation of the peptide due to heat. Over a month unrefrigerated is too long. In their reconstituted state, peptides tend to degrade over time.

Are you sure? That's not how I read IRS Publication 544. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p544.pdf. That publication states, in part: "Amount realized. The amount you realize from a sale or exchange is the total of all the money you receive plus the FMV (defined below) of all property or...

I'll mention one advantage brand name has over grey at least if you use the pen: It's almost impossibly to get the dosing wrong. Now here is an advantage from grey that you won't get from the pens: You control the dose. You can take it more than once per week in order to keep the amount in...

It sounds like you didn't pay for all the testing yourself. You made a reasonable decision. However, that means you don't get the large numbers of likes that you would have received if you attached a copy of your results.

That's why I recommend against picking a lab based mainly on price.

Considering the problems frequently encountered with peptides, I'd hate to see less testing.

Some of the compounding pharmacies turned out to be just buying unapproved stuff from China.

My own experience, having taken brand name tirzepatide many times along with Chinese tirzepatide many times is that there is no noticeable difference. My own experience seems to be the most common of those who have tried both, based upon the forums that I have read. I'm confident that in terms...

To me, the people who only eat healthy food are cheating. I'm thinking that if I only allowed myself to eat the bad-tasting food they eat, I'd be thin too.

Wait a year for a reasonable price. Wait two years for a good price. Wait three years for it to cost an insignificant amount.

There IS such a think as oral tirzepatide. You take the tirzepatide in a pill. It's real tirzepatide. It then goes into your stomach, where the stomach acids destroy the peptide. Then the tirzepatide is gone. You won't lose weight. If tirzepatide could easily have been turned into a pill...

Let's say that the offer to you is a kit of 20 mg of Peptide A. That means you would receive 10 vials, each containing 20 mg of Peptide A. However, you ought to test the drug after you receive it to confirm (1) you really did receive Peptide A and (2) the weight of the drug. The weights of...

You point out an unfortunate aspect of modern medicine: Some people have bad reactions to medication. In your husband's case, even if he read the prescribing information for the drug at the time, he would have seen nothing about the pancreas. Much is still unknown about the drugs we take...

I'm a big fan of both modern medicine and free market economic principles. Yet the problems of healthcare in the US are enormous. Since the US spends the most, per capita, on healthcare, we should have the greatest healthcare system in the world. But we don't.

I'm not a business person. However, I'll note that many of the moves that Chinese vendors make do not make business sense as far as I can understand. Remember Zeropeptidegate, where all at once vials from several vendors turned out not to contain peptides? Well, there was one vendor, ASC...

Another way to reduce counterfeiting would be for drug manufacturers to charge reasonable prices.

There should be spelling errors on the package; they're coming from folks living in China. It's not like we're buying from Germany, where everybody is great at English. By the way, I recently learned the main reason why English spelling is so difficult: Words are generally spelled as they...

I"m finding that gravity exerts less force on me than it used to.

I suggest buying Hospira BAC water. Since it's technically an FDA-approved prescription drug approved for subcutaneous and intravenous injections, you can rely on your Hospira BAC water.

For reasons I do not understand, making good BAC water is much more difficult than making good lyophilized peptides. I stick to Hospira BAC and the "free" BAC water that comes with orders from Peptide Group Buys.

Yet the solutions that worked were very much products of modern medicine - tirzepatide, a sleep study, and I suspect you use CPAP too. I suspect much of the disillusionment with modern medicine is due to people having an inflated expectation that modern medicine can cure every ailment. Modern...

I had a friend who rejected modern medicine. She ended up dying of breast cancer. I had another friend who wouldn't take the recommended statins and high blood pressure medicines. He believed those medicines were unnecessary since he was a long distance runner. He ended up having a widow...

Insulin is a peptide.