GLP 1 weight loss and skin tightening with GHK CU

[domin8brix]

Man, I wish I'd heard about GHK-Cu years ago. Now that this is my 2nd time losing more than 100 lbs, I have such loose skin under my chin, and at 39, it's mortifying, especially as the rest of my face is tight. I'll be getting some and will report back to this sub if I see improvement.

I have been doing botox in the platysmal bands if you are into doing that stuff, I've lost 135 and I am a few weeks shy of 48.

Doing GHK-Cu cream on the face every night after a good cleaning and micro-needling as well. Skin feels noticeably better at day 4 from the topical. Too soon to tell on the injectable GHK.

I have been attacking the neck skin with platysmal band botox, and that's helped, but I know it won't last forever. What topical are you seeing good results from?

 

[deluge]

I have been attacking the neck skin with platysmal band botox, and that's helped, but I know it won't last forever. What topical are you seeing good results from?

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this is the product and roller I bought and am using. I have no reason to recommend these over any other products available, but I'm definitely happy with the results. Applying this after a hot shower, facial scrub, and then the .2mm micro needle roller. Forehead, temples, under eyes, neck down onto the chest.

I don't know how much the results are from the Nexaph lyophilized peptide I'm using (2mg/daily), or the cream, however.

 

[domin8brix]

this is the product and roller I bought and am using. I have no reason to recommend these over any other products available, but I'm definitely happy with the results. Applying this after a hot shower, facial scrub, and then the .2mm micro needle roller. Forehead, temples, under eyes, neck down onto the chest.

I don't know how much the results are from the lyophilized I'm using (2mg/daily), or the cream, however.

Thank you! I've seen a few options thru a place I apparently can't name, but I can't imagine they're tremendously different than anything otherwise commercially available. I will check this stuff out! I have a few rollers, I just am not very consistent using them. And I have gobs of growth factor stuff, peptide topicals and I know one has copper in it but I have no idea what percentage it is at.

 

[DragonOfTheSea]

Is there an error in your numbers? 2.5 units would be 1mg, 5 units would be 2mg, if you reconstituted with 2.5ml? I reconstituted with 3ml so mine is just a tad different.

I would have to agree with you?

 

[amosmylove]

I've been using GHK-Cu, almost through my first 2 month cycle. Can't really speak to the skin tightening aspects of it yet as I had already lost about 55 lbs when I found out about it, now at about 72.

BUT, one thing I have noticed: I've got a genetic disorder called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, that affects connective tissue and collagen in the body. My finger nails have always been extremely brittle. They split super easily, I keep them cut as close to the quick as I can, because If I don't, they will spilt vertically INTO the nail bed and that really sucks. Here's the thing, starting about 2 weeks into the cycle, I noticed my nails were stronger. I had forgotten to clip them and they weren't splitting! Since then I've only had one split, when I banged my finger on a hard surface.

Now I still keep my nails cut pretty short, and they aren't as strong as a non-EDS person, but they are WAY better than prior to starting the GHK-Cu.

So that's my experience thus far.

I have hEDS also so I've been taking all of this with a grain of salt because faulty collagen can't be fixed. But I'm hopeful. I've been on ghkcu for over a month and I've noticed it's improved my acne/complexion so I'm really into it just for that.
Taking bpc has certainly improved my inflamation/neuropathy/tendonitis/torn MCL issues so while my collagen isn't being fixed, something good is happening still undoubtedly.

 

[CariocaLeftSeoul]

Applying this after a hot shower, facial scrub, and then the .2mm micro needle roller. Forehead, temples, under eyes, neck down onto the chest.

Everything I've read said not to microneedle daily because you need to wait for your skin to recover otherwise you're doing more bad than good... Unsure if you meant daily thoguh.

 

[CariocaLeftSeoul]

I've lost about 40lbs, and been taking GHK-Cu for most of that and my skin is definitely saggy, but I also have crappy skin in general, and though no stretch marks even from pregnancies, my skin has always felt thin and I have cellulite even when I was a teen and not overweight. I'm in my mid-40's so I'm sure that has something to do with it too, vs if I was still in my 20's or 30's. I have started getting serious about tightening up and getting into the DIY aesthetics bit buying stuff from Korean sites and microneedling and using collagen-building products with mesotherapy (and I'm still afraid of injections but I guess once you start injecting peptides, what's more shots?). No results from it yet since those things are a long-term game but tackling the skin on my stomach, thighs and arms. I guess in about 6 months I'll be able to tell if it worked...

 

[deluge]

Everything I've read said not to microneedle daily because you need to wait for your skin to recover otherwise you're doing more bad than good... Unsure if you meant daily thoguh.

I had never heard that about not needling daily.

Conveniently enough, I only shower at best every other day, so at most I'm doing the scrub/needle/cream regimen 2-3x a week

 

[CariocaLeftSeoul]

I had never heard that about not needling daily.

Conveniently enough, I only shower at best every other day, so at most I'm doing the scrub/needle/cream regimen 2-3x a week

There's a whole microneedling reddit if you want to look it up. Of course it varies based on depth but I believe at 0.2, which is what you're using, shouldn't be more than once a week to give your body a chance to heal (and build the collagen you're hoping for). The only ones that can be done daily are the "nano" needles, but those only come with pens, not rollers.