Anyone lose on the baby doses?

It really is amazing how different everyone's body reacts. A friend of mine had to move up every month; otherwise, it stopped working. And here are you two doing great things on the starter doses! I'm glad for you both.

switched to mid-afternoon SS-31. running Mots-C 5mg every other day in the AM fasted. second cycle now. first one made me tired. day 11 of 30—already feeling the synergy kick in.

Lost 28 lbs at 0.25mg over 4 months. My doc was ready to bump me up but I felt fine and the scale was moving so we held. Eventually the appetite suppression weakened and I went up, but the slow start meant zero side effects until 1.0mg. If your insurance covers extending baby doses, it can be a soft landing into the higher ones.

The extended half-life on CJC with DAC is worth thinking about when dosing frequency matters. The 500mcg twice weekly gives more flexibility to adjust timing compared to running the full weekly load at once. The protocol notes on half-life are worth reading before settling on a schedule.

12 weeks of CJC no dac/Ipamorelin at 125mcg twice daily is a standard conservative protocol. The OP's point about extended half-life with the DAC version mattering for dosing frequency is correct - it changes the optimal timing significantly. Planning to reengage at the end of May gives the break some purpose rather than just stopping. What metrics were you using to track the 12-week run?

Running two peptides, CJC1295 without DAC and Ipamorelin, dosed close together right after getting up and again shortly before sleep. Also add a healing/gut-repair peptide blend alongside the growth-hormone pair, in a larger amount than either of the other two.

Came across something suggesting the pituitary gland hits full saturation somewhere in the low three-digit microgram range, so that's roughly the target I aim for, split across the two daily shots rather than one big dose.

For those running the non-extended version of the growth hormone peptide, what's the draw over the extended-release variant?

Seems like nearly everyone in this community leans toward the standard version over the extended one, which I find puzzling given the extended version has considerable clinical backing showing average hormone boosts of 200%-1000% and IGF-1 jumps of 150%-300% above baseline... plus it only needs dosing once weekly instead of multiple times daily.... You don't even need a release-triggering peptide like the common one alongside it to get results.

Just curious what's driving everyone's preference here