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DEXA scan May 8, 2026. 157.6 Pounds Lean Mass 38.6 Pounds Fat Mass 196 Pounds Total Weight 19.7% Body Fat This is when I'm supposed to say, "lots of room for improvement." 😂

@ChaseIrons If I had to guess, 100mg vial is husband and wife, both at a high dose. Or a shady compounder. I buy 50mg vials of reta. My wife and I split it. Lasts us about 5 weeks. I have some 60mg vials too. If I saw a 100mg vial of reta I would buy it just as a collectable. 🏆

10mg or 30mg Reta vial? Wrong question 👇 The right question is how fast are you going to use it. Match your vial to your dose. Not your wallet. What size are you currently buying? ⬇️

@DrJesseMorse Great post. Will be reading the article on the stationary bike later.

Here’s a MASSIVE summary of Retatrutide - the upcoming triple agonist from Eli Lilly and how it compares to Tirzepatide and Semaglutide. What about side-by-side side effect comparison by dose? What do the trials show? Full detailed article in attached tweet below.

@FowardAssist How is your sleep normally? Im on a quest to fix my disordered sleeping. Have some pinelon and epitlon on deck. Just taking too many peptides and want to cycle off some before adding.

Continuing sleep optimization testing: Day 5 of Epitalon 1.5mg and now adding Pinealon 1.5mg nightly. 💤

@ThePepGuy Nvm. Lol

@HormoneForge These weights are used every summer event in the ocean to hold down trampolines for the kids🤣🤣

Half-way through this 24 hour shift, lets get it done today 💪🏼

@biohacker This guy is the most delusional person on Earth. He legit thinks he invented "drinking coffee after a red eye." And is gaslighting half a million people into believing him Lol

This is wrong. taking 3mg of melatonin before bed will not reliably shift your sleep phase earlier. Because it is too late for any kind of meaningful phase advancement. Research shows you need to take it earlier to actually move your circadian clock forward. Because it requires atleast 1–2 hours to exert circadian effects Phase-response curves show strongest advances occur with either afternoon/early evening dosing Not near habitual bedtime, has to be in line with your natural dim-light melatonin onset, and you also need to fire who's ever reading these studies for you.

@fitcapbiohacker FitCap gunna have the bedsheets across FitX lookin like a slip N slide.

For the women asking yes, you can also benefit greatly from taking tadalafil

When you expect it the least, Expect it the most. Transferred script to Albertson's on Sunday. $23.18 later I'm up 90 boner pills.

@peptidepirate I have some 50k iu pills and 10k iu oral oil. I take one of the 50kers with a triple scoop of Baskin Robbins for the fat every few weeks and call it "maintenance". 🍨

@HormoneForge Great insights as always brother ! My 3 month draw I was on the lower end of “normal” but since I have started upping my dose of vit D it’s solved it completely 🔆 Feel much better 🏴‍☠️

Reta series Pt.6🏆🏴‍☠️🏆🏴‍☠️🏆🏴‍☠️🏆🏴‍☠️🏆🏴‍☠️ ——————————————————— The vitamin D problem on Reta💊💊 Research shows GLP users face a 40 percent higher risk of vitamin D deficiency compared to people not on these medications🏴‍☠️ Here is why this happens🏴‍☠️ Vitamin D is fat soluble which means you need dietary fat to absorb it properly and most GLP users are eating less fat at lower overall food volume🏴‍☠️ Slowed gastric emptying reduces the time vitamin D spends in contact with bile salts and digestive enzymes which compromises absorption further🏴‍☠️ Rapid weight loss mobilizes vitamin D stored in fat tissue but if dietary intake is inadequate that pool gets depleted faster than it gets replenished🏴‍☠️ Most adults are already deficient before starting a GLP roughly 40 percent of Americans fall below the optimal range🏴‍☠️ Four pathways stacking against your vitamin D status at the same time🏴‍☠️ The symptoms hit quietly🏴‍☠️ Fatigue that does not match your sleep quality🏴‍☠️ Mood drops out of no where 🏴‍☠️ Frequent illness or slow recovery from minor infections🏴‍☠️ Bone aches especially in your hips lower back or shins🏴‍☠️ Muscle weakness that does not match your training output🏴‍☠️ Hair shedding that started or worsened after beginning Reta🏴‍☠️ Brain fog and reduced cognitive sharpness🏴‍☠️ These are not Reta side effects🏴‍☠️ These are vitamin D side effects from running Reta without supporting your fat soluble vitamin status🏴‍☠️ The bloodwork to track🏴‍☠️ 25 hydroxyvitamin D is the marker not regular vitamin D🏴‍☠️ Optimal range is 50 to 80 ng per mL not just above the deficiency cutoff of 30🏴‍☠️ Draw labs every 3-6 months when running a GLP because levels can shift faster than baseline I do every 3 months 🏴‍☠️ If you are dropping faster than expected check magnesium and vitamin K2 because both are required for vitamin D activation and utilization🏴‍☠️ The fix🏴‍☠️🩹 5000 IU vitamin D3 daily as the standard maintenance dose for most adults running a GLP🏴‍☠️ Always paired with K2 specifically MK7 form at 100 to 200mcg because K2 directs calcium to your bones instead of your arteries🏴‍☠️ Take with the largest fat containing meal of the day for proper absorption🏴‍☠️ Magnesium glycinate before bed because vitamin D activation requires adequate magnesium status🏴‍☠️ Real food sources salmon mackerel egg yolks and vitamin D fortified dairy when possible🏴‍☠️ Sunlight exposure 15 to 20 minutes midday on uncovered skin when seasonally available🏴‍☠️ Do not let a deficient fat soluble vitamin be the reason your energy mood immunity and bone health degrade quietly🏴‍☠️ 🧬🔬

@brandon_collup Tried it. It feels like snot in your mouth. Made me almost to puke. Spit it out on my first try. It's really an upgrade in taste and texture. If nothing else.

@HormoneForge Hmmm, I like this. However why not include the white? Seems like it would simplify the process. Does it foam it up or something?

Most guys slam watery whey shakes that taste like disappointment. I drop raw egg yolks in mine. Turns it thick, creamy, and actually delicious. While supplying cholesterol for hormones, choline for mind muscle connection, and natural lecithin for perfect texture. No seed oils or gums. Weird? Yeah. Effective? 1000%. Article below👇

A good experiment would be taking 503 peptides and RUO peptides. Doing extra testing to measure isomer ratios, % degradation, trace element analysis, etc. I'm sure someone smarter than me would have a better idea how to do this. Basically reverse engineer the 503 peps to find their source. If there are truly under 10 or so API manufacturers in China, we would be able to trace the source of the 503 peptides and prove it's all the same stuff conclusively. I would bet the RUO websites would donate vials and testing to root out the 503 sources. It would be great marketing to be able to show they have the same exact products as the 503s.

@tonymission I want to see more people send off samples from places like this too, instead of just RUO tests

A surgical tech I was just talking to runs a weight loss clinic on the side. 200 patients/clients. He’s begging to find a good compounding pharmacy/telehealth service so he can get his people some peptides. He knows about RUO but won’t touch them.

@Fily_2 That's almost impossible to dose. 1 unit is too hard to even see on a 1cc syringe. You need a 1/3 mL syringe to safely dose 50mcg I would even still recommend getting 5mL sterile vials, using 5 mL water and then the dose would be closer to 5 units.

Quick question for anyone experienced with MT1 dosing: I reconstituted 10mg in 2ml bac water and I’m starting at 50mcg — on a U-100 syringe, is that basically the first tiny line (around 1 unit / 0.01ml)? #biohacking #peptidescience #PeptideResearch

@Fidgetz93 🤫

@HormoneForge What’s UGL 👀 🤣 😬 🤐

Current vendors I can vouch for. For research purposes only, clearly. Biolongevity Labs 🧬 Limitless Biotech 🌌 Elite Research USA 💯 Crush Research 💪 Simple Peptides There is many more I would like to add to this list.

@shecallmemyron They sacrificing children to the illuminati before the set. Sometimes it takes a while to clean all that up

After going to many EDM & Rap festivals it still blows my mind how a huge rapper will be 30 minutes to an hour late to their own HEADLINING spot, like it’s not a big deal or something.

All of the clinical data shows RHR and JRV back to baseline after titration is complete and steady serum levels have been established. I have my own data to counter point your data. My RHR and HRV went back to baseline after 6 weeks at 6mg. There are endless n=1 experiments. Clinical data speaks the loudest. It all goes back to baseline.

There's no free lunch when it comes to GLP-1's (or anything, for that matter)... 👇 A consistent response of folks who go on a GLP-1 is increased resting heart rate and HRV going through the floor! This is displayed in the attached data from @JohnGoldman - when he decided to come off Reta for exactly this reason... You can see the difference in his HRV just from coming off his GLP-1 is night and day! The reason for this is pretty simple... The Parasympathetic Nervous System of the body (that HRV represents) is the "rest and digest" or "feed and breed" system. The PNS is activated after significant energy depletion to tell the body - You need to refuel - time to eat! Obviously, folks taking a GLP-1 want to significantly dial down these "time to eat" signals! In the body, this happens post PNS activation... 1/ Expend a lot of energy. 2/ Get tired and hungry 3/ Eat! 4/ GLP-1 released to say "you've eaten enough" When you take an artificial GLP-1 agonist, you skip over the PNS-mediated steps 1,2,3 and live perpetually in step 4 (a move back to SNS modulated - "time to expend energy" phase. This is reflected in high resting heart rate and shitty HRV. IOW, skipping over steps 1,2,3 of nature comes at a cost. It might be a worthwhile cost if you're 300 lbs and have trouble moving enough. But, for most of us, my advice... Don't mess with nature. Do what you were built to do... Move a lot. Eat a lot. Sleep a lot.

@KobraSportsMed Bro that's USP certified meth. Safe.

Too many of you worried about peptide safety/side effects were running around basically on meth and didn't bat an eye

@HoosierKid31 Hope it helped! On long work days I sometimes just do like 15 mins stationary bike and half hour of deep stretching.

@HormoneForge This id my favorite reply I have seen… ever

Haven’t ate in 16 hours due to OT throwing my schedule off Warming up to workout and everything feels HEAVY!!! Still getting it and then getting a huge bowl of cereal, protein and psyllium husk down after Curious how this workout is going to feel with no food

The BSU body lab does DEXAd for $66. At that price I'm doing them quarterly. Lol I don't believe a DEXA can be used for accurate BMR. Estimation yes, but for $26 Id rather have the actual test. I'm on TRT, thyroid meds, and 6mg reta. Ky metabolism is maxed out. The estimations don't factor those modifiers in.

The one where you run with hoses at to your mouth and nose is the VO2 max. It basically measures fitness level. BMR can be ascertained from your DEXA bf%. Have them calculate it from that, then see what it is from the resting test to see if you can just estimate from DEXA in the future. Their tests are very cheap. A DEXA at St Luke’s is $250.

DEXA scan May 8, 2026. 157.6 Pounds Lean Mass 38.6 Pounds Fat Mass 196 Pounds Total Weight 19.7% Body Fat This is when I'm supposed to say, "lots of room for improvement." 😂

@nancymarie1000 @cknotty91 They have a BMR and another one where they make you run on a treadmill for 30 mins and then do the BMR again Forget the name. Something about oxygen debt. It all really gets me nerding out. So much cheap data for so cheap.

@HormoneForge @cknotty91 No, just DEXA. I might do a VO2 max test in the future.