You know a lot more about this than I do."This showed quite clearly there was no effect on weight"
Read the article. It is conclusive that it does nothing in humans. The receptor it relies on just doesn't work the same. There is no method of action.
I didn't ignore the fact that you were breaking PRs - I explicitly discussed them as being almost certainly a placebo effect. How am I "utterly ignoring" something I explicitly talk about?
Secretagogues do not cause a strength increase like that. Higher quantities of exogenous HGH that result in significantly higher IGF-1 levels do not cause a strength increase like that. We understand the mechanisms around HGH increasing muscle mass over time, we understand the CNS effects of steroids that cause acute strength increase, and we understand that there is not overlap there. Gym performance depends on a huge variety of factors, and just thinking you're on drugs that can increase you performance will increase your performance. The placebo effect is as real there as it is anywhere else.
Lets leave it at that.