My view is that caution should win out, which means the burden of demonstrating safety ought to fall on anyone asserting that injecting mail-order chemicals carries little risk.
The difference is frequency: eating happens much more often than injecting. If E. coli goes in through a needle rather than the mouth, the risk is considerably higher.
And once more, the burden belongs with anyone who chooses not to lean toward caution.
Yet if I follow your logic, nobody ought to be injecting anything subcutaneously unless a medical professional gives it to them. And honestly, the logical endpoint of that argument would be that people shouldn't give themselves subq injections at all, since there's a possible risk — even though no research has been presented showing any substantial risk. Or at least none has been offered here.
I don't believe my reasoning is coming across. At no point did I claim that zero risk should be taken. Even walking across the street to reach the medical professional's office carries risk.
Bless you, my dude — rest assured, I'm fully aware you have no authority to stop me from taking risks.
So what was behind your "And you should let other people do the same."?
When I try a new peptide, I ramp up gradually as well, watching for any reaction.
The comparison you're making involves eating a substance, not injecting it. When something goes into your fat layer via injection, it skips all the defenses your digestive system uses to handle contaminated food. That means an injected dose can cause problems at far lower contamination levels than an ingested one would.
Some folks in this community are trying to rank risks from low to high. That goal is
worthy of respect and easy to sympathize with.
That's fair, but I figure your immune system would pick up on it and trigger a reaction at the injection site. That reaction would serve as a signal that something isn't right.
Take a potent toxin like botulinum toxin. Inject it at a dose above what Botox contains, and an ISR could result. That ISR, though, might be the final thing you experience before the injection kills you. Swallowing it is toxic too, but your stomach is better at neutralizing poisons, so eating it would in effect deliver a smaller dose.
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