Recent content by Bee_Gains860

It is not in your head. The mental adjustment in month one is widely underreported.

Getting A1c below 5 is genuinely rare and means the pancreatic function is responding well to the load reduction. The lipid changes tend to be the second thing people notice on the bloods - triglycerides especially move quickly once carbohydrate intake drops. Year one results like these tend to...

The ferritin versus iron distinction is so important and so consistently missed on routine panels. Ferritin can be critically low even when transferrin saturation and hemoglobin look normal. The GLP-1 connection is real too - reduced food intake means less dietary iron absorption, and the...

I'm craving fast food a lot more than I used to, but I eat way less, so I'm still losing weight. I wish I wanted to eat healthy food though!

That's fantastic progress! What's your starting weight, if you don't mind me asking? I started around 200lbs and am hoping to get down to around 140.

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I used to have a big cup of coffee every morning. But as soon as I started Ozempic, coffee tasted too strong and bitter. Same with alcohol. A tiny bit of wine would make me tipsy. I'm on 1mg now, started a few months ago, and haven't had coffee or alcohol since then.

Great reference! Thanks!

I can't even drink coffee anymore, it makes me sick now. I'm only in my second month and on a baby dose, like 0.25mg.

I'm assuming the legal US compounding pharmacies source from the same companies?

I'm also a physician, and after my cardiologist suggested a GLP-1, I started researching. The brand name was going to cost $875 per month, because insurance wouldn't cover it. My PCP suggested a compounding pharmacy, which brought the price down to $285 per month. After finding the grey market...

Are we really certain that the big pharm companies peptides are manufactured in China? How do we actually know that?

The tirz effect seemed like it was wearing off, and honestly, there's a bit of an outlaw thrill in using the grey market. 😉

I started with brand-name tirz about 3 years ago. I Lost 65 pounds then switched to maintenance. But I noticed the scale creeping up a bit and I wanted to lose maybe 5-8 more pounds. I heard about reta, so I started reta 2 months ago and reduced my tirz dose. It's going well. I don't know if...

I hope to be as responsible as you are one day.

Truthfully, my personal trainer at the gym got me started on reta. But I'm keeping my GLP-1 use pretty quiet, just between me and my wife.