Hi guys, hope everyone is doing well!
44 y.o. male, out of Greece. Exercise to the extreme (overtraining, really) has been my whole life: martial arts, weight lifting, powerlifting, cycling, swimming, dancing — with plenty of injuries along the way, though most of them healed.
Fully natty, these used to go up easily:
Dancing came after all that lifting; a lot of muscle and size went missing, but a european gold metal came home with my tram in salsa.
Height is 1,85 (6'1"), and 107 kg (~236 lbs) was both my strongest and my best looking.
Then 4 babies arrived over the last few years, my eating and sleeping went reeaaally downhill, and the weight piled on to reach 146 kg (~ 322lbs)!
At that weight, on 15th of March 2026, an accident tore both menisci in my right knee (multi ruptures, horizontal and vertical, though luckily no displacement), plus an acl semi tear, baker cysts, a patellar tendon semi tear and some other bits.
Surgery was skipped, and 1,5-2 months essentially stuck in bed all day left me with osteopenia and muscle (quad) atrophy too.
Searching around for anything that could help is how I discovered peptides and gave them a go, alongside switching my diet to strict keto carnivore omad.
4 months on, 33kg (~72lbs) is gone and the latest MRI showed no meniscus tears at all!!!
Saying the peptides were 100% responsible would be wrong, but they surely played a part — the change after starting them was enormous within just 3 days.
Ozone therapy was also part of it, along with a pile of supplements: d3,k2, magnesium bisglycinate, selenium, zinc, c, complex b methylated, nac, chondroitin, glucosamine, msm, choline, inositol, serapeptase, nattokinase and a few more.
Peptides used: bpc157, tb500, ghkcu, kpv, aod 9604. Dosages low to normal, May through June, 1,5 month in total. A legit supplier in Europe shipping to Greece was found, but expensive. A china source was also hunted down (quite a few turned up) and other greeks who'd used some of these suppliers were consulted and were satisfied (orders arrived; suppliers covered damage or customs holds etc) — yet testing a few vials showed they were shit: 78% , endotoxins, metals and so on. Which means I'm now looking for a more aggressive protocol (previous stack + a few other peptides) aimed mostly at my knee, and also my shoulder, which has a cartilage tear plus some arthritis from earlier accidents.
Eating healthy and clean continues; the lifting is currently rehab work, plus swimming now in August while the family is on holiday. Recovering (if that's even possible) from all the abuse my body has taken over the years is the goal — less pain, weight, inflammation and fatty liver, and better sleep etc.
Sadly, no doctor in Greece seems to know anything about peptides, and none want to risk advising on them.
Last thing: financial planning is my job, so index funds, stocks and the like are familiar ground, and crypto has been a hobby since the end of 2015. A fortune was made in crypto and then lost entirely last October when everything dumped and my stop loss failed; that's another area I'm starting over in. Index unit link insurance contracts are my back-up, thankfully, though that money won't be going into crypto — generational wealth and something safe/secure is what I'm after.
Thanks to anyone who made it through all of that
.
If there's any way I can help, just ask — sharing what I know would be a pleasure. For now I'm reading the forum and learning as much as I can.
44 y.o. male, out of Greece. Exercise to the extreme (overtraining, really) has been my whole life: martial arts, weight lifting, powerlifting, cycling, swimming, dancing — with plenty of injuries along the way, though most of them healed.
Fully natty, these used to go up easily:
- squat — 200 kg (~440 lbs)
- deadlift — 250kg (~551 lbs)
- bench — 170kg (~374 lbs)
- shrugs — 300 kg (~ 661lbs).
Dancing came after all that lifting; a lot of muscle and size went missing, but a european gold metal came home with my tram in salsa.
Height is 1,85 (6'1"), and 107 kg (~236 lbs) was both my strongest and my best looking.
Then 4 babies arrived over the last few years, my eating and sleeping went reeaaally downhill, and the weight piled on to reach 146 kg (~ 322lbs)!
At that weight, on 15th of March 2026, an accident tore both menisci in my right knee (multi ruptures, horizontal and vertical, though luckily no displacement), plus an acl semi tear, baker cysts, a patellar tendon semi tear and some other bits.
Surgery was skipped, and 1,5-2 months essentially stuck in bed all day left me with osteopenia and muscle (quad) atrophy too.
Searching around for anything that could help is how I discovered peptides and gave them a go, alongside switching my diet to strict keto carnivore omad.
4 months on, 33kg (~72lbs) is gone and the latest MRI showed no meniscus tears at all!!!
Saying the peptides were 100% responsible would be wrong, but they surely played a part — the change after starting them was enormous within just 3 days.
Ozone therapy was also part of it, along with a pile of supplements: d3,k2, magnesium bisglycinate, selenium, zinc, c, complex b methylated, nac, chondroitin, glucosamine, msm, choline, inositol, serapeptase, nattokinase and a few more.
Peptides used: bpc157, tb500, ghkcu, kpv, aod 9604. Dosages low to normal, May through June, 1,5 month in total. A legit supplier in Europe shipping to Greece was found, but expensive. A china source was also hunted down (quite a few turned up) and other greeks who'd used some of these suppliers were consulted and were satisfied (orders arrived; suppliers covered damage or customs holds etc) — yet testing a few vials showed they were shit: 78% , endotoxins, metals and so on. Which means I'm now looking for a more aggressive protocol (previous stack + a few other peptides) aimed mostly at my knee, and also my shoulder, which has a cartilage tear plus some arthritis from earlier accidents.
Eating healthy and clean continues; the lifting is currently rehab work, plus swimming now in August while the family is on holiday. Recovering (if that's even possible) from all the abuse my body has taken over the years is the goal — less pain, weight, inflammation and fatty liver, and better sleep etc.
Sadly, no doctor in Greece seems to know anything about peptides, and none want to risk advising on them.
Last thing: financial planning is my job, so index funds, stocks and the like are familiar ground, and crypto has been a hobby since the end of 2015. A fortune was made in crypto and then lost entirely last October when everything dumped and my stop loss failed; that's another area I'm starting over in. Index unit link insurance contracts are my back-up, thankfully, though that money won't be going into crypto — generational wealth and something safe/secure is what I'm after.
Thanks to anyone who made it through all of that
.If there's any way I can help, just ask — sharing what I know would be a pleasure. For now I'm reading the forum and learning as much as I can.