Thanks! I’d love to try it for a couple of nagging tendon injuries, but frankly I’m afraid of ordering from some random company on the internet, especially given that injected meds go right past our gut and liver defenses. Does anyone have suggestions on quality assurance for any of the bpc 157 sellers out there?
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I only order my peptides from
info@xpeptides.com
Quality and testing results provided. Had a bottle 3rd party tested for purity and 
legit.
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I have two “IRL” friends who have used the pills to get significant GI improvement. I have not used pills, but I have been injecting 240mcg 2x/day for 11 days. At around the 6 day mark my GI performance changed quite strikingly for the better. My diet, supplements, and exercise are uniform and boring, so I attribute the improvement to systemic action of BPC. 5 good days in a row isn’t enough to be sure, of course.
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Thanks. Which peptides do you believe are most effective?
BPC-157 and TB500 for injury and recovery
Ipamorelin, Tesamorelin and CJC-1295 for body composition [muscle building and fat loss]
Malanotan 2 for tanning of skin sexual increase
Pt141 for erectile disfunction
Epithalon for Longevity
Igf-1 LR3 for massive muscle gains but a little more in the experimental side
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Thanks. These peptides are really complex. Do you have to inject Epithalon, Malanotan2 and Pt141, or can you also take orally and get decent bioavailability?
They are all Injection
Using a subcutaneous insulin needle though, is very easy and zero pain.
There is a need to “reconstitute” the peptide though as it comes in powder form in the vial.
Sounds overwhelming at first, but it is actually very easy.
I was overwhelmed at first but now find it intriguing and fun to do. I feel like a lab scientist lol.
Here is a simple video on how to do it.
You need BAC Bacteriostatic Water [available locally or online]
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Thanks for all the education. I am going to give it a try!
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I can vouch for peptides being powerful. A couple years ago I took melanotan II to try to get a tan. I am very fair skinned, Fitzpatrick skin type 2. I burn very easily. If I get burned multiple times throughout the summer I will slowly develop a bit of a tan but it usually keeps a reddish tint. When I took melanotan II I developed the most incredible tan. The first week started out by going into the sun for about 5 minutes about 30 minutes after injection. Then the second week 10 minutes. By the end of the second week my tan was very obvious. And it was a nice healthy looking tan for those of you that believe in such a thing. Week 3 I’d stay out for 20 minutes. If I tried to stay out longer than that I would get a little red. By the end of week 4 I could stay outside in intense sun for nearly an hour without burning. People were starting to ask questions because they’d never seen me so dark. lol. I experimented with different doses. 200 mcg 3 times per week was probably a sweet spot for developing a tan. Once a week for maintenance. Doses at 600mcg to 1mg really revved up the libido but I noticed I started getting more freckles and preexisting freckles and moles were getting darker. This was worrisome at the time but everything faded over the months after stopping and slowly went back to how I was before. I should also add that even small doses of 200 mcg would cause intense facial flushing and nausea for an hour or so after injection. Larger doses had a larger reaction. Doses of 200 mcg seemed to not bother me much after the first several weeks. Anyway, this forum is about healthspan/lifespan so melanotan 2 might not interest anyone. However my self experiment did prove to me that melanotan did everything I’d read it would do. There is absolutely no way I could tan like that without melanotan! These peptides are no joke!
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I am not against peptides and bioregulators and I may try some of them. However, I have done some research on BPC-157 that makes me cautious. Most of the research I found comes from Croatia (University of Zagreb) and was done on mice. I could not find any substantial research on humans, but I would certainly like to hear about it if it is available. Post it if you can find any. The best YouTube summary I found lasts about 7 minutes. Here’s the link:
Oh, one additional note is that I started my initial research with ChatGPT which I have found not totally reliable. So, I may have been lead in the wrong direction (by ChatGPT) with this research.
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Paul_2.0, did your use of any of these show any benefit?
“I’ve used BPC 157 TB500 and TB4 to try and heal a hip injury.” - Paul_2.0
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I still have some tan left over from 3 weeks of MII last July. Some have concerns that it can accelerate skin cancer, but I get screenings at a dermatologist so I opted for the tan prior to a beach vacation. I will say I didn’t burn.
My personal belief is that, in general, some sun exposure is healthy. Too much and you risk skin cancer or at the very least skin aging. But I think biggest risk of skin cancer comes from burning. I think if you are very fair skinned, like Fitzpatrick 1 or 2, that MT2 can help protect you from skin cancer while allowing you to get a little more sun without burning than without it.
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To be honest I can’t really say that it did help or at least I cant say for certain if the peptides helped the injury. I pulled my hip abductor swinging a kettlebell and was pretty restricted for a while. I didn’t see any immediate benefit or none that I could see. This was a few years back. It’s completely fine now and maybe the peptides helped. I wasn’t convinced enough to keep doing them, but i don’t think that’s a reason not to try them. I came to realize that it’s incredibly hard to judge whether these kind of things work. There’s not a lot of data or much in the way of clinical trials so it’s basically a Hail Mary. That said, just because it didn’t seem to work for me doesn’t mean you won’t see a benefit.
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For a torn tricep from a nasty fall I took…BPC-157 was a blessing from God.
I did physio therapy for 6 weeks, did PRP injection, massage, and even acupuncture.
My injury over a period of 5 months got better, but I could never get it past about 50% better. [I realize that it will never be 100 percent, but hoping to get it to 80-90]
I took BPC-157 5mg injections once, sometimes twice a day, and over two weeks instantly went to 90%.
I am all about research and studies, but I dont really care what those say.
I went from 50-90 percent strictly from this peptide.
I will never be without it, and it is the main reason my peptide exploration has expanded to four or five different ones and now bioregulators.
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Veronica, since you’ve used these for 7+ years you’re one of the experts on this topic. Are you able to provide information about dosage, positive results you’ve noticed and any bad side effects? Thanks, Jay
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@Jay - there have been hundreds of thousands of people using them.
I, myself have been studying them for 5 years and using them for three myself.
Yes, I would love to hear more feedback from @Veronica since she has been using them 7+ years , too though.
I am part of a local health group where a dozen of us have been using them for rhe past few years.
Everyone can make their own choices [as we are all doing with the likes of Rapamycin, Acarbose, Meformin etc], but if you are waiting for double blind placebo results I think this may be the wrong forum as I am sure we wouldnt see that for Rapamycin etc for another 10 to 20 years or so.
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Maybe can you share the brand/lab that you use?
Based on my reading, it seems peptides - bioregulators in particular - would be more effective when the body is in an anabolic state rather than a catabolic state as induced by rapamycin. Do any of you adjust your dosing of peptides and/or rapa based on the other?
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