Riviera
Explorer
Male, 59 years old — into cars, boating on lake erie, pinball machines, and more recently this new obsession of mine: peptides.
Health-wise I'd been doing great, but the last few years have thrown up a few problems. Funny how this sort of thing lands on you out of nowhere.
For years I've been hunting answers about my health, and turning up remarkably few.
I've lifted weights my whole life and feel at my best in the gym, at home too. Only when my son told me to look into peptides did I claw back a real chunk of my health, over roughly the last 6.5 weeks.
Osteoarthritis has been my companion: my hip (which needs replacing), my right hand and my knees. On top of that, severe fatigue for the last 2 years. I had my testosterone checked and the doc pronounces me fine. There is nothing quite like rising from bed aching as though you were 100, drinking a coffee, then wanting to crawl straight back in... and I'm still holding down a job.
Enough grumbling, though...
The peptide road began with curiosity: my son mentioned that his gym teacher was on bpc157....
So I started reading — peptides, healing blends, secretagogues, glp's and the rest....
I signed up to a top-level Canadian bodybuilding forum and learned an enormous amount from a great crowd there.... a big stretch of this journey, and one of the better decisions I've made.
Much better now. For the arthritis I run a 157/500 blend, and it works wonders. I've used cjc/ipam to lift my gh and it helped. I take aod 9604 for the joints, and this past week swapped cjc out for 1.5 iu / day of 191aa, which has wiped the fatigue out entirely — I felt it the very first morning. My life has changed.
I've only just started ghk-cu and dsip, with ss31 motc and nad waiting their turn... plus a few others.... too many peps to learn about, but I'll put the hours in....
6.5 weeks on reta and I'm down 23 lb, feeling great too..... I'm a big bloke — 6'3" and was 269.5 lb, now 246.5 lb..... my ex is on ozempic.... and she is not happy watching how well I'm doing in so short a time (payback....heh heh heh)
So a few months of peptides has taught me more than I expected, and also that I've barely scratched the surface. I know that I know next to nothing.... I've learned how grey this whole area is, and that it stays that way until peptides go mainstream. I've learned where they're made, who the big players are, the website resellers, the new peps landing, the arguments over purity and testing, about dimmer where hgh is concerned.... about Peter Magic..... and more...
Before peptides I'd never injected myself, never taken anything stronger than prescribed medication, never touched aas even while lifting. My views are shifting.
To me peptides look like a semi-natural route to extending my health without drugs or serious side effects, though I have to keep an eye on blood sugar while on the hgh.
That journey has carried me here. In 6.5 weeks I feel 15 years younger, and I can lift alongside my 16 year old son, who has gone hardcore on it now and wants a career in fitness, maybe bodybuilding.... he's already dropped around 40 lb with a V shape and abs.... all inside 1.5 years of lifting, naturally at that. I want my strength back, the strength I had in my 30's. I believe I can get it, and land in the best shape of my life. I want to bodybuild...... how's that for a retirement plan?
At my age I ought to be wiser.... my foot ends up in my mouth at times, and seems happy there, so mods be warned.... (I'm learning to duct-tape my foot to the floor — red green style, for my Canadian friends.)
I'm here to learn what's true, not to win an argument, and I'm here to make friends. I'm here because I've been reading this forum for a while — the threads do teeter-totter, but there is a lot of info here, my god there is a lot of info here.... and good people too..... I expect I'll run into names I know from my other forum.... they're welcome to say hi....
Looking forward to this new branch of the journey......
Health-wise I'd been doing great, but the last few years have thrown up a few problems. Funny how this sort of thing lands on you out of nowhere.
For years I've been hunting answers about my health, and turning up remarkably few.
I've lifted weights my whole life and feel at my best in the gym, at home too. Only when my son told me to look into peptides did I claw back a real chunk of my health, over roughly the last 6.5 weeks.
Osteoarthritis has been my companion: my hip (which needs replacing), my right hand and my knees. On top of that, severe fatigue for the last 2 years. I had my testosterone checked and the doc pronounces me fine. There is nothing quite like rising from bed aching as though you were 100, drinking a coffee, then wanting to crawl straight back in... and I'm still holding down a job.
Enough grumbling, though...
The peptide road began with curiosity: my son mentioned that his gym teacher was on bpc157....
So I started reading — peptides, healing blends, secretagogues, glp's and the rest....
I signed up to a top-level Canadian bodybuilding forum and learned an enormous amount from a great crowd there.... a big stretch of this journey, and one of the better decisions I've made.
Much better now. For the arthritis I run a 157/500 blend, and it works wonders. I've used cjc/ipam to lift my gh and it helped. I take aod 9604 for the joints, and this past week swapped cjc out for 1.5 iu / day of 191aa, which has wiped the fatigue out entirely — I felt it the very first morning. My life has changed.
I've only just started ghk-cu and dsip, with ss31 motc and nad waiting their turn... plus a few others.... too many peps to learn about, but I'll put the hours in....
6.5 weeks on reta and I'm down 23 lb, feeling great too..... I'm a big bloke — 6'3" and was 269.5 lb, now 246.5 lb..... my ex is on ozempic.... and she is not happy watching how well I'm doing in so short a time (payback....heh heh heh)
So a few months of peptides has taught me more than I expected, and also that I've barely scratched the surface. I know that I know next to nothing.... I've learned how grey this whole area is, and that it stays that way until peptides go mainstream. I've learned where they're made, who the big players are, the website resellers, the new peps landing, the arguments over purity and testing, about dimmer where hgh is concerned.... about Peter Magic..... and more...
Before peptides I'd never injected myself, never taken anything stronger than prescribed medication, never touched aas even while lifting. My views are shifting.
To me peptides look like a semi-natural route to extending my health without drugs or serious side effects, though I have to keep an eye on blood sugar while on the hgh.
That journey has carried me here. In 6.5 weeks I feel 15 years younger, and I can lift alongside my 16 year old son, who has gone hardcore on it now and wants a career in fitness, maybe bodybuilding.... he's already dropped around 40 lb with a V shape and abs.... all inside 1.5 years of lifting, naturally at that. I want my strength back, the strength I had in my 30's. I believe I can get it, and land in the best shape of my life. I want to bodybuild...... how's that for a retirement plan?
At my age I ought to be wiser.... my foot ends up in my mouth at times, and seems happy there, so mods be warned.... (I'm learning to duct-tape my foot to the floor — red green style, for my Canadian friends.)
I'm here to learn what's true, not to win an argument, and I'm here to make friends. I'm here because I've been reading this forum for a while — the threads do teeter-totter, but there is a lot of info here, my god there is a lot of info here.... and good people too..... I expect I'll run into names I know from my other forum.... they're welcome to say hi....
Looking forward to this new branch of the journey......
