Friend bought peptides off TikTok and ended up in the ER — what worked for you?

carl_compliance said:

There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use.

FDA_TrackerJim said:

Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

Mine went the same way, slower.

FDA_TrackerJim said:

Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.

One concrete data point for the thread. Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath. An edited-away mistake is invisible to the next person who makes it.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

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