INTRO Roughly 40 years of accumulated wear

[Stayinalive]

Peptides have been on my radar for years now, and I've given a handful a try, mostly to undo some of the wear my body picked up across roughly 40 years. Occasionally there's a benefit, though usually the effect is small or absent entirely. Whether the vials I get are genuine is hard to know — one oral BPC run did clear up the tendonitis in my arms, years back. These days my elbows ache, and that's proving harder to shift, even after months of subq BPC plus TB.

Most of my working life has been spent in the military and then construction. That's left me with 4 knee surgeries behind me, two torn rotator cuffs, plus two operations on my eyes and two heart attacks.

Down the line I'm likely to need knee replacements, probably within a couple of years, and my aim is to delay that as far out as I can.

The things I've read about replacement knees give me pause — one example being the clicking sound with every step. Misophonia runs in my family (it means a lower tolerance for repeated noises), and honestly repeated sounds drive me up the wall. My sister has it far worse — sniffing, teeth picking, almost anything another person does will set her off. She turns up late to dinners just so she doesn't have to hear people eat.

Should I come across something that actually builds cartilage back, that would be huge. This field keeps moving forward, and I'd love to pin down which peptides do the job for me.

Whatever helps me stay in the workforce a while longer — right up until my kids finish college and are out on their own — that's what I'm after.

 

[Researcher6076]

Hey Stayinalive, glad you made it here. Chances are I've got a few years on you, though my wear and tear is somewhat lighter, haha. Still, hitting 71 means something has taken a beating. (In my case, 2 wrecked shoulders, but yoga has been a big help.)

For soft tissue repair, the go-to peptide combo is TB-500 plus BCP-157, so you're already building on a solid base.

TB-500 Loading: 2.5 mg 2×/wk × 4–6 wk, maintenance: 2–2.5 mg 1×/wk while recovery continues

BPC-157 100–500 mcg SC, with 250 mcg being most common, once or twice daily, SC near the injured area if possible, but systemic injection is OK

After spending 3 hours chopping up and hauling fallen trees, I just dosed myself with extra of both.

Interestingly, a report just came out linking GLP-1s to improved cartlidge. All sorts of extra health perks are being discovered with GLP-1s. My own regimen is a slightly subclinical dose of Reta+Tirz, and I intend to keep it that way permanently. My blood glucose responds really well to it. When blood glucose stays ultra stable, every organ and tissue benefits. Just a thought.

Wishing you the best with your health.

Every now and then I use nasal SEMAX when I want a cognitive lift. Could be placebo, but I genuinely believe it helps. My partner has been testing nasal SELANK. Not sure if that's something you'd try, but it could be a worthwhile experiment for your misophonia. I haven't come across anything specific—it just strikes me as something possibly worth testing.

 

[Stayinalive]

Researcher6076 said:

Hey Stayinalive, glad you made it here. Chances are I've got a few years on you, though my wear and tear is somewhat lighter, haha. Still, hitting 71 means something has taken a beating. (In my case, 2 wrecked shoulders, but yoga has been a big help.)

For soft tissue repair, the go-to peptide combo is TB-500 plus BCP-157, so you're already building on a solid base.

TB-500 Loading: 2.5 mg 2×/wk × 4–6 wk, maintenance: 2–2.5 mg 1×/wk while recovery continues

BPC-157 100–500 mcg SC, with 250 mcg being most common, once or twice daily, SC near the injured area if possible, but systemic injection is OK

After spending 3 hours chopping up and hauling fallen trees, I just dosed myself with extra of both.

Interestingly, a report just came out linking GLP-1s to improved cartlidge. All sorts of extra health perks are being discovered with GLP-1s. My own regimen is a slightly subclinical dose of Reta+Tirz, and I intend to keep it that way permanently. My blood glucose responds really well to it. When blood glucose stays ultra stable, every organ and tissue benefits. Just a thought.

Wishing you the best with your health.

Every now and then I use nasal SEMAX when I want a cognitive lift. Could be placebo, but I genuinely believe it helps. My partner has been testing nasal SELANK. Not sure if that's something you'd try, but it could be a worthwhile experiment for your misophonia. I haven't come across anything specific—it just strikes me as something possibly worth testing.

For a few months I used RETA. Then a side effect appeared, though whether it's connected I can't say. It felt like pneumonia: wheezing and thick mucus lodged in my throat. At first it was as if my throat was producing too much saliva, and it kept worsening little by little until I was straining to force it out.

My dose was only 2mg/wk. After a couple of months I gave 3 a try, but the nausea became far too strong, so I dropped back to 2. I'm thinking about giving it another go in a week or two, using roughly 0.5mg/wk as a maintenance amount. Around 15lbs came off, and I wasn't all that far above the weight I'd prefer. Was it an allergic reaction? I can't tell. It might also have lined up with something unrelated, such as having to mow the overgrown grass 5 days straight, with the dust perhaps affecting me.

To rule out anything involving the BAC water, I'll go back on the BPC for a few weeks first, since I'm confident the BPC is safe. My hope is that Reta isn't the culprit, because 2 more 24mg bottles are still sitting there untouched. There are so many other advantages that throwing it away would be a shame.

As I understand it, BPC and TB are more or less the ultimate answer for soft tissue repair, but my doubts about my supplier have grown since certain injuries of mine refuse to improve. Trying a different supplier would settle the question one way or the other.

Selank and semax are things I've wanted to test, but I don't want too many compounds going at the same time. Since they can be taken nasally, that probably won't be a problem, though.

Does this forum have a list somewhere of the abbreviations people commonly use?