Yes… as @Bicep stated… you need a break of the medication in order to balance cleaning and growth … the autophagy of rapamycin dose cleaning - repairing the cells… so with 6 mg… you get benefit of cleaning… as half life… by half life it leaves the system in 3 to 4 days… then you get growth for 3 days… cycling the cleaning/catabolic and growing/anabolic.
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Yes, it’s correct. 3 ng/mL @1 mg/day.
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I recommend you read our FAQ (frequently asked questions and answers)… Rapamycin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Specifically, with regard to the questions you mentioned:
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This may be a bit off topic, but it seems like there are lots of wise folks discussing the absorption and formulation issues on this thread. My question is whether there is any known reason that I should not split a Rapamycin pill? I buy rapa from CVS, so it is an approved generic. I have two mg pills and I want to increase my dose to 3 mgs, hence the need to split a pill. Any major concerns?
Do not split them. The tablets are esoteric coated, and the bioavailability will go to almost zero if split.
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Exactly. If you ruin the coating, the bioavailability is ruined and you might as well throw them away.
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More precisely, we don’t know what the coating is. We used to think it was enteric coating, but more recently that was thrown into doubt, and it’s not clear (at least not to me!) what exactly is the coating and its effect on bioavailability.
Furthermore, we know one statistic which came out of the PEARL trial: compounded rapamycin pills, which didn’t have any specially engineered coating was about 1/3 as effective a dose as a coated brand name sirolimus from the pharma company.
From this we may conclude that IF there is some special coating designed to enhance/preserve the bioavailability, and you now split the pill thus obviating the coating, you are probably getting one third the effective dose of rapamycin. Not zero. So, if you aimed for two pills of 1mg each, you got two pills of 0.3mg each of rapamycin.
However, I am not at all satisfied with the lack of firm conclusions in this matter. Because thinking about this issue, I see another possibility. We must assume that the generics cannot deliver only 0.3mg of an effective dose of rapamycin, because that would really mess with the effectiveness of this drug dosage in transplant patients, which would swiftly draw the attention of the FDA. However we also know that coming up with a good coating that guarantees full bioavailability is neither trivial nor cheap - it certainly raises the cost of the pill for the manufacturer, and we know how much those generic manufacturers hate to spend extra. That leaves another, rather simple solution. The generic maker might simply boost the dose to compensate, and put 3mg in a pill with any old cheap nothing special coating/film and label it “1mg”, because that’s what the effective dose would be. And rapamycin in bulk is very cheap for the generics maker. Now you can freely split the pill because you will always get the effective dose regardless - this would explain why the Biocon 1mg pills are scored in the middle implying that you are free to split them - it really doesn’t matter if you split them; you want a 0.5mg effective dose, no problem, after splitting the 1mg pill in two, you get two 1.5mg pills each of which has a 0.5mg effective dose - there you go, problem solved! Obviously I’m totally speculating - until we have actual knowledge, we simply don’t know.
But I for one would not risk splittng the pill. You might end up with only 1/3 the effective dose. YMMV.
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Maulik delivered again. Shipped 3/10 arrived unopened 3/18. Small box with 350 pills with only foil packs included. 8x5x2 inches approx.
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For me too maulik delivered me 120 rapacan 240 brillo ez and 120 safinamide in just 13 days to Montréal canada.
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Got the letter from the FDA regarding my package from Maulik They seized it.
The crazy thing is, I didn’t order most of them only numbers 2, 3 and 8! I didn’t order Ivermectin!!!
I ordered Bempedoic Acid, Galantamine, Imuniquod cream, doxycycline and dutasteride only.
Maulik told me the FDA was seizing all shipments with Ivermectin, so I wonder if that was the cause?
How do I even proceed with this???
Maulik says it’s the wrong shipment as some of these drugs he doesn’t even sell.
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Get a district court judge to reverse the decision.
My latest Maulik order arrived in 6 days. Amazing!
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Hi - curious if you provide option to ship to USA?
FWIW: email from Maulik
"Just to inform that Mounjaro (Tirzepatide) from Eli Lilly is officially launched in India.
You can post them on the forum if someone is interested.
Please find the prices for same as below
Mounjaro(Tirzepatide)2.5 mg / 0.5 ml vial - 40$
Mounjaro(Tirzepatide)5 mg / 0.5 mg vial - 50$"
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Doesn’t these GLP1’s have to be refrigerated? Doesn’t that pose a shipping problem? Could you please repeat Maulik’s email? Thank you
Its one of those edge cases… you probably don’t want to buy a lot of it from India, but perhaps smaller orders?
It is generally recommended to store Mounjaro® in the refrigerator (36⁰F-46⁰F) and keep it in the original box to protect it from the light. If you do not have access to a refrigerator, it can be stored at room temperature (up to 86⁰F) for no more than 21 days. Some patients find the injection to be more comfortable if they first let the medication warm to room temperature before administration, if storing in the refrigerator.
Source: How Do You Store Mounjaro (tirzepatide)? | Form Health.
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Just letting folks know maybe Jagdish Nikose has gone MIA or is taking funds or ?? I sent the amount in an invoice for SGLT-2 of $286 or there abouts via revolute to the same Indian bank and account as my last purchase of rapa 9 mo ago. jagdish was conversing up to the point of me starting the multi step process of sending through revolute, mentioning my invoice # in the wire. As soon as I got the confirm from revolute I emailed Jagdish and no replies for about 1.5 weeks since the funds where sent.
I’m ok with the loss realizing the dark alley nature of emailing and wiring funds for drugs…
Just warning others that at least or me on this transaction Jagdish has MIAed.
I was wanting to add 5mg dapa to my anti aging protocol. I was buying 10mg and planning on breaking in half. As an aside I could use a referral for a dapagliflozin source (without prescription).
Good luck to all, curt
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FWIW, I sent Jagdish funds through wise.com on 03/31/25, he sent out the package on 04/05/25 and it is now moving through the USPS system.
Meanwhile, I also sent payment on the same day 03/31/25 through wise.com for the same meds to a different vendor and encountered difficulties. He contacted me on 04/04/25 to ask if I could agree to a different manufacturer of the pioglitazone (I ordered the Sun Pharma one), as he can’t obtain it, there would be a week delay. So I agreed to a Zydus version. Ever since - it is now 04/15/25 - silence.
This other vendor was also more expensive than Jagdish. At this point, I think it will be the last time I’m buying from him and will stick to Jagdish and try other vendors. So far Jagdish has not disappointed me. I’ve ordered from him several times. The longest it’s been from payment to sending out the package was 8 days. I wouldn’t panic quite yet. Sometimes they have availability issues so they just wait - of course it would be nice if they keep us informed as to what is happening instead of radio silence, but nothing is perfect. I hope things get resolved for you soon.
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