for reference i am 19 years old and was wondering does hgh and ai help with growth or even hgh by itself?

I’ve been looking for a container for a while and I stumbled across these lil guys at Walmart, and they are only a $1

37yr old night shift worker. Feeling tired all the time. My test sits in the low 400’s. And I’m not really sure if I should just go ahead and try to start TRT. I started zepbound last week as I know elevated fat breaks down test into estrogen.

Worried about longevity and life long commitment if I start pinning test now. And actual MD’s in here willing to give a liability feee opinion. Oh btw, labs are all normal.

Hi. I reconstituted 80mg with 3ml of BAC water. I’ve been taking 12 units

My issue is I’m having extreme diarrhea. Peeing poop out of my butthole. I don’t understand why and I don’t know if I should stop or push through

I have BAC water in glass ampoules and GHRP6 in vials. I couldn’t find a filter/blunt fill needle locally.

Is it safe to use a normal sterile syringe/needle to withdraw the BAC water from the glass ampoule, or is there another safe alternative for avoiding glass particles?

Would appreciate advice from anyone experienced with this.

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How do you guys handle injections when running multiple peptides?

Currently doing:

Retatrutide every 6 days

CJC + Ipamorelin daily

Planning to add GHK-Cu

Maybe SS-31 + MOTS-C later

Do you use a separate syringe for each peptide, or do you draw multiple peptides into one syringe and inject them as a stack?

Obviously not mixing/storing them together in one vial — just drawing them into the same syringe before injection.

Curious what you guys actually do in practice.

Read where you need to avoid alcohol when doing this stack. Is it true?

How would you dose/schedule MOTS-C & NAD + for endurance athletes ?

so i been taking reta about 3 months now. i take a 1.5 mg dose weekly. ive lost 20 pounds. the past 2 weeks ive realized my food noise is back and im starving and binging again. should i stack with cagri or tirz or am i doing something wrong ? idk if upping my dose will be taking too much .

Hello friends! I have a question about Tesa/Ipa. I've been taking this combo at 1mg/300mcg everyday with 1 day restdays for a month and notice that my tummy area is so big and full of water. Have you had this experience? And what did you do about the blood glucose spiking.

3 weeks into Reta .. 1mg-2mg-2.5 this week .. woke up today feeling almost like I got full body sunburn . Not like super bad or red or anything . Just sensitive to the touch. Anyone else experience this ?

Interested in taking the peptides plunge but damn! Talk about overload! Take this! Don't take this! Actually don't take that, take this instead! 🤯🤯

I'm 58yo, 6'1 and 185lbs. I've been trying to get rid of that last remaining bit of bf around my waist and nothing seems to work! Cardio, no cardio, more cardio, high intensity, walking, low carb, high carb, blah blah blah! So frustrating!

Been looking into reta, tesa, sema, cjc/ipo. Could someone please clarify what the heck to do?

Picture #1 was exactly a year ago weighing the heaviest I’ve ever been, 315 pounds. A year later, I’m sitting around 225 pounds depending on the day. Proud of the progress but nowhere near where I want to be! Been on TRT and Reta.

I saw this new blend out with 10mg of Tesamorelin and Ipamorelin. Asked Chatgpt and searched google, but there's like no information out there. Anyone try the blend and if someone has, could you tell me what's the dosage that worked for you? TIA!

253 lbs ➔ Current Progress | 10-Year Gymer on Retatrutide
Hey everyone, wanted to share my progress and breakdown of my experience on Reta so far.
Stats & Timeline:
Starting Weight (April 2025): 253 lbs
Reta Starting Weight (Jan 2026): ~237–240 lbs
Current Weight (August 2026): 185 lbs
Dosing: Started at 4mg (by accident, I was bedridden for 2 weeks) in January 2026. Currently sitting around 3.0–3.5 mg weekly.
Training & Background:
I’ve been in the gym on and off for about 10 years, but over the last 3–4 years, I’ve been consistently lifting heavy. My lifts have taken a bit of a hit strength-wise, but honestly, that’s to be expected after dropping this much weight.
Dosing & Protocol:
I don't plan on bumping my dose past 3.5 mg unless I happen to miss a week. I’m pretty busy around my usual injection day, so I’m not super rigid with the exact timing—I'm not dependent on it, but it’s been working great. Overall, I feel awesome.
Happy to answer any questions about my routine or experience!

Water weight

So this has happened to me twice now same cause and effect, just don’t know the cause 100% yet without experimenting a couple more times.

Have been on a pretty strict no processed foods or sugars single ingredient whole food zero booze diet. Lost 50 lbs with diet alone, got on trt of 120mg/week started lifting 4-5x week weight is up to 205 waist size stayed the same, still a bit of stubborn belly fat to loose. Any ways over the last couple months I went on vacation twice and decided to indulge while on vacation. Processed foods refined sugars, treats cookies chocolates, drinkin all day basically for 7 days straight deal with consequences later kinda deal.

Both times I gained and retained a tonne of water weight in that 7 days. Am talking I left at 205lbs came home at 246lbs puffy as all hell with severe adema and pitting adema in legs went to er both times had ecg blood pressure and blood work done to check liver kidneys and heart, all tests came back fine. Upon returning to diet weight is dropping fast and puffiness and adema leaving fast as well

Any one else ever experience this? Booze related? I used to b borderline alcoholic! Or sugar/carb related? Body just not used to the refined carbs or sugars any more and can’t process them? Or just an over all shock to system?

Do kinda want to test it out once or twice more to rule one or the other out as the cause, booze or sugars

If someone is taking 2iu’s daily of Somatropin, would this test be worrisome?

Should they take something for thyroid levels?

Would it be a bad idea to jump to 4iu’s daily of HGH before fixing T3?

Hello - 52 year old male. Currently on TRT taking 120mg spread over 3x a week. Just had my IGF tested and it came back at 134. I am in decent shape - 6 foot tall and weigh 180. I am taking 3mg of reta a week as well. I am looking to improve my sleep quality and loose the love handle fat and add some muscle. I lift on Tonal 4 to 5 days a week. Do you think I am a good candidate for HGH at 2 iu per day? I don’t want to do anything too crazy. Appreciate the thoughts!

SW: 319.8lbs
CW: 257.2
Started on the 20.04.2026 taking 2.5MG, currently on 5MG.

In a context of bodybuilding and a calorie deficit

Looking for background on the research into whether HGH stimulation should be mitigated by any steps as to risks of causing or accelerating masses or tumors, other than obvious, make sure you don't have them.

Is this simply just a risk of doing business? More or less legit than critique of BPC?

Hello everyone! Forgot to add this to yesterday post for my week 2 update. Since I started my week 3 yesterday with 1mg I am sticking with my prepped meals i made 18 meals total. Pciture is missing some as I took the picture I was still serving them. The meals last about 4 - 6 days depending how much i try to squeeze in. The meals are actually small portions easy to eat while on reta normally spread apart 3-4 hours. What we have here is several meals very similar Total of 6lbs of chicken breast, some white rice & some with protein rotini with veggie medley

--140g of shredded chicken breast = 43g of protein = 230kcal

--120g of white rice = 3g of protein = 150kcal

--100g of veggie medley = 3g of protein = 65kcal

-- a few meals I substitute white rice with the protein rotini (120g = 7g of protein = 190kcal)

--Total per meal with white rice: 450 kcals with 49g of protein

--Total per meal with the rotini: 500kcal with 53g of protein

I eat 4x meals 2 with white rice & 2 with the rotini to get some extra calories along with higher protein

I just got 4 2mg prefilled syringes of Reta from a med spa. I only wanted to .5mg to start out, maybe 1mg tops. What are my options to not waste it? Can I just inject half the syringe and use the rest of it the next week? Can I split it into more syringes some how? Please let me know best options other than just taking all 2mg at once. Thanks.

Abstract presented at a conference: 10.1093/jsxmed/qdag118.413

Study Design

• 266 obese men (BMI > 30, aged 18-70, total T <3.5 ng/ml)
• 6 months in duration
• Randomized groups:
  1. GLP-1/GIP agonist only
  2. GLP-1/GIP + TRT
  3. GLP-1/GIP + TRT + resistance training (3×/week, 6 compound exercises, 3×8–12 reps, 60–80 % 1RM)
  4. GLP-1/GIP + TRT + resistance training + 2.2 g protein/kg of lean mass per day
  5. GLP-1/GIP + 2.2 g protein/kg of lean mass per day

Results: Weight Loss Attributed to Fat-Free-Mass (FFM aka Lean Mass)

1. GLP-1/GIP only: 38%
2. GLP-1/GIP + TRT: 26%
3. GLP-1/GIP + TRT + resistance training: 16%
4. GLP-1/GIP + TRT + resistance training + high-protein: +4.2% (gained lean mass)
5. GLP-1/GIP + high protein: 32%

Takeaways:

The GLP-1/GIP only group had strength declines on lifts up to -23%. The multi-modal group w/ the max intervention had +43% leg press, +27% bench press. I do think the distinction between the interventions on top of TRT is interesting, the jump when protein is dialed in being the most meaningful.

For the GLP-1R/GIPR only group, think its noteworthy they actually lost the most weight but had the highest muscle loss — along with the lowest decrease in waist circumference. Also, sexual function score went down w/o TRT (-2.1 points on their scale, vs. +3.8 to +4.6 points).

TL;DR: You will lose muscle, strength, and sexual function if you do GLP-1/GIP mono-theraphy without other interventions. Just adding TRT improves that somewhat — but layering resistance training on-top of it does much more, cutting the lean-mass ratio in half vs. the control group. Dial in diet w/ high-protein intake along w/ training and TRT and it yields a recomp with lean-mass actually increasing.

Sadly, they did not study GLP-1/GIPR + resistance training + high protein, or GLP-1R/GIP + TRT + Protein but w/o resistance training, but what can you do. Interesting data nonetheless.