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@Figfigfigfigidy @bryan_johnson Mine is truth. The setup is based on human biology. Ask @grok. Who is right

@HiddenBullStock @bryan_johnson Probably the same basis you just shared a claim?

People mistakenly believe peptides are only good. Peptides can be bad, too. They can cause adverse effects. Some dangerous. I did a peptide experiment and measured its effects in my body. The results are complicated. I tried a peptide called CJC-1295. It pushed my growth hormone up by ~8x. That’s good. That’s what it was supposed to do. But, it also came with adverse effects: > increased my morning fasted blood sugar up 20% > increased stress hormone by 12% > tanked my REM sleep by 23% > made my pancreas work 53% harder and was still losing to rising blood glucose > increased my insulin resistance by 50% These were the most obvious side effects, and I only ran a very narrow panel for this experiment. So I’m sure there’s more. I stopped after two doses, without even reaching the intended target dose. For those of you new to peptides, your body sends instructions to itself using tiny chemical messengers called peptides. There are thousands of them. For example, GLP-1s are drugs that take an existing class of short-lived peptides and modify them to extend their activity duration, which turns them into drugs, following rigorous clinical testing. CJC-1295 is one of those peptide-drugs. It tells your brain to release more growth hormone. Growth hormone is your body's signal to build muscle, repair tissue, and recover. However, and like most grey market peptides, CJC-1295 did not succeed its clinical trial, and hence never became an “official” drug. There is a version called CJC-1295 with DAC. DAC is an attachment glued onto the peptide that makes it last for days in your body instead of hours. One shot, longer effect, just like GLP-1s. Why people use it: more growth hormone could mean better recovery, leaner body, faster healing. The experiment I completed. Two injections a week of CJC-1295 with DAC: > 1.2 mg > 1.8 mg 48 hours after the first injection I was nearly comatose. It felt like severe jet lag, the type you’d feel after traveling nine time zones. My sleep was wrecked and I felt continuously awful. My REM sleep dropped by 23%. REM is when your brain processes memories and repairs itself. Less time for my brain to repair itself. During the experiment, I never felt rested and always fatigued. Why we chose CJC-1295 with DAC. Some will say we picked the wrong peptide. They will say I should have used a different version, CJC-1295 without DAC, mixed with another peptide called Ipamorelin. We went with CJC-1295 with DAC instead as it has the most controlled studies. CJC-1295 with DAC has 2 controlled trials in healthy adults. Ipamorelin alone has 1 controlled trial in healthy adults, plus 1 study that failed when they tried it on bowel surgery patients. The mix of the two has zero controlled trials. On Ipamorelin, it copies a chemical called ghrelin, the one that makes you hungry. On its own it gives you a quick burst of growth hormone that fades fast. It does not keep your longer acting growth signal (called IGF-1) up. Clinics mix Ipamorelin with CJC-1295 no-DAC because the two together are supposed to work better. But we don’t know if that’s accurate because we don’t have trial data. This is a problem with peptides. Almost none of them have been tested properly. We are flying blind. Most of what people use is based on what someone said online, what a clinic claims, or what a friend reports from their subjective feelings. Peptides have the potential to be great when well-studied.

@Figfigfigfigidy @bryan_johnson I love how you share this info without any basis to your claim.

@HiddenBullStock @bryan_johnson Cjc is one of the worst peptides, high side effect profile and its in like the top 3 that have sent guys to the ER Terrible peptide to measure all peptides by

@AnnunakiTurd @bryan_johnson Cuase it mimics natural gh pulses

@HiddenBullStock @bryan_johnson With your last claim of being more safe biologically... How do you know that?

That’s why I said produce a protocol based on logic not based on if there is published data. With that attitude nothing will get done. “Let’s not explore because we don’t know”is your logic right now. Yeah I know riskier and much respect for what your doing but no dac with ipa is by far safer biologically speaking.

@HiddenBullStock The combination is not supported by any published data. Peptides live and breath on anecdotal claims like yours, it is useless without the data.

@daaaaaaa690 @bryan_johnson Same

@bryan_johnson I take cjc 1295 without DAC since june 2024 and I feel great. I sleep very well and I don't feel any fatigue after the gym.

@c_monty2024 @bryan_johnson Yeah I’m still wondering why not pick the setup that literally mimics natural pulses. Is he not in the right state of mind or something?

@bryan_johnson You did use the wrong peptide so while your results are interesting they are completely irrelevant for just about anyone who would choose to do this peptide. Combo it with Ipamorelin and use a no DAC CJC and get back to us.

@bryan_johnson You have got to be kidding me. I thought you were smarter than this. Absolutely do not take it with DAC. Cmon now. You did it wronggggg

Bodybuilders use the peptide CJC-1295 to grow muscle. I tried it for two weeks. Unexpectedly, it changed how my body responded to 200°F sauna protocol. First, the good. I spent more total time above the heat shock protein (HSPs) threshold. This is when my core body temperature reaches 102.2°F and heat shock proteins are released. Before CJC, total time in HSP land was 9 minutes (with face cooling). On day 9 of CJC, it rose to 15 minutes. Resulting in more HSP exposure per session. Now the bad. It took me 13 minutes longer to reach the target heat shock threshold of 102.2°F. From 41 minutes to reach threshold at baseline to 53 minutes on day 9. This is an insane level of primal panic to be in 200°F for 53 min. Max core temperature remained below the 103°F mark (39.4°C) The sauna session went from 41 minutes total to 56 minutes total to get the HSP benefit. CJC raises growth hormone which causes the body to retain more water and sodium. More water means more thermal mass which means core temperature rises slower. The body is harder to heat up. A second interesting data point. My max sauna heart rate dropped from 135 to 128 bpm while the core body temp remained the same. For a bodybuilder, this water retention helps performance and physique. For someone using sauna for HSP activation, it is a tradeoff. You bank more HSP time per session, but you pay for it with substantially longer sessions. I've stopped CJC-1295 DAC. The side effect burden outweighed the benefit. A 6 minute gain in HSP exposure is not worth 14 extra minutes in the sauna plus the unknowns of sustained GH elevation. It disrupted my REM sleep and caused clear blood sugar disruption with early insulin resistance signals (posting soon). In 2 weeks I will retest after washout. If time to threshold returns to 40 minutes, the GH mechanism is confirmed. If it stays elevated, what I observed was heat acclimation. Peptides are great, we just don't know much about them.

You’re completely wrong on the tax part. It’s 0% tax on dividends up to certain points. For 2026, qualified dividends face a 0% federal tax rate for single filers with taxable income up to $49,450 (or $98,900 for married filing jointly), so $40,000 in dividends alone would typically fall entirely in the 0% bracket after standard deductions.

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@SStricklandMMA How about you just stick to MMA buddy. Oh wait! I forgot that everyone wakes ups and wonder what cte advice we get today from you

I could be wrong but as of now the Iran war has only hurt Americans. Middle Eastern countries get richer, Russia gets richer Americans get a gas tax and inflation. YOU get poorer THEY get richer Tell me how this is America first?

@SenTomCotton So do believe in banning alcohol? Keep that same energy buddy.

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@bryan_johnson You have to do no dac… please

Field report: night 2 on peptide CJC-1295 DAC. My sleep is wrecked. Two nights in and I feel like I crossed eight time zones. Minus the flight. What the sensors say: > Whoop: REM down about 40% from my 2-week baseline. Deep held. Disturbances up. > 8 Sleep: Flipped. Deep crashed to 36m. REM held. Taken together, a clear pattern of sleep disruption. The same truth just opposite shadows. Whoop reads REM from pulse and breathing at the wrist. Published validation flags REM as its weakest stage (21-min discrepancy vs PSG). Interruptions prevent the patterns from stabilizing, so REM gets lost first. 8 Sleep reads deep from body stillness against the mattress. Interruptions register as movement, so deep gets lost first. REM holds because the irregular breathing and small movements from interruptions look REM-like to the model. Neither sees brain waves. The real story is what an EEG would show. Interrupted, shallow sleep is how I feel, very reminiscent of jetlag. Why this might be happening: > Likely transient. Circadian rhythm, HPA axis, cortisol, all recalibrating to a new GH/IGF-1 setpoint. First two nights aren't a final verdict. > The only trial that measured it: CJC-1295 DAC preserved nocturnal GH pulses but raised basal GH 7.5-fold. Pulses on a raised floor. > GH pulses drive slow-wave sleep. A raised floor doesn't. > Elevated IGF-1 feeds back on hypothalamic GHRH. The nighttime GHRH surge that gates SWS may get blunted. > GH-IGF-1 axis also talks to the HPA clock. Tonic elevation can scramble cortisol rhythm. Jet lag, endogenously generated. Plan: Track a week. Compare 1 week post-CJC to 1 week of baseline. If still disrupted, abort or pivot to no-DAC + ipamorelin pre-bed.

@BenjaminDEKR Yeah like his whole basis is first principles yet you buy something that you have no clue if it’s based on first principles and if not you have to basically go back to the drawing board and start over so why not just create your own.

It is interesting that SpaceX / xAI felt the need to acquire Cursor Why not just build their own? Actually, wasn't Grok Code / other upcoming Grok projects supposed to be this? Grok 5 is supposed to be AGI, then isn't building an AI agentic code IDE in a few months easy?

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@kai_xbt Literally did the opposite for me

Rasmr reveals Retatrutide killed his libido for 3 months and he just got it back "I was on Reta and in a heavy calorie deficit for about three months. It killed my libido. I wasn't getting any morning wood. I was like damn I'm waking up soft and that would never happen." "This morning I woke up bricked. So thankfully it was the Reta. I was worried it was the Finasteride, I was worried something was wrong with me. But the Reta is getting out of my system now."

Bro it’s just science. We are just made of different atoms paired together called molecules. Those molecules are chained together and at a certain length of the chain are considered peptides, supps, etc. it tells the dna what to do. Ignore the noise and follow the science and optimize. Best of luck dude

Now that my algorithm favors fitness content I couldn’t be more annoyed. You people make it sooooooo damn hard and complicated for people tryna learn. Everyone has “the method” “the protocol” “the diet” “the supplement stack” mannn. JUST STFU, LIFT, EAT CLEAN, SLEEP, REPEAT.

@csharpgen @fousey Either way it’s going to get cheaper and cheaper. You’re already seeing price drops in compounding pharmacies.

@HiddenBullStock @fousey Yep, that explains the price, I'm guessing many would be unwilling to buy on the grey market.

To those who take “RETATRUTIDE” .. Just trying to understand. I get that it helps your impulse control. But my question is if you’ve never built the habit of discipline to diet without the use of reta, are you intending to stay on it forever? Because just like a crash diet at the end, the people who lost weight, usually put on more than they even started with. So I can only imagine what happens to somebody who struggles with discipline getting off of it and feeling the hunger temptations again. Again, just trying to understand. (I hate how on X I have to clarify twice that I’m just trying to understand and not coming with any shade because of how angry everybody is on this app.)

@csharpgen @fousey Grey market. It’s tested for purity and made in US. No insurance

@HiddenBullStock @fousey Is that with insurance? Are you getting it with a prescription, or through some other less official source.