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So for those on the peptide journey, accessories matter. Over many years and many conversations, here are a few items of note. These syringes are excellent: https://a.co/d/054H3D7m For some reason, sometimes Amazon will have a multi-week back order on them. Those are also sold under the Sam's Club house brand (Member's Mark) for a shitload less. I think under $11/box. You can only get them in store, cannot order or even see them online. These suck: https://a.co/d/06Y7Ye3O These are ok, middle ground: https://a.co/d/04Lh3DUD These injector pens are nice, super convenient. Just dial a dose and go. Particularly great if you decide to do any daily peptides. A little more work to set up, but then you have many doses ready. For example, GLOW/KLOW is in one of those, as a 25-shot (25 day) cartridge. https://thepeppen.com/product/the-black-peppen-v2-pro/ Bacteriostatic water can be a pain to find. As a general rule, peptide people trust Hospira/Pfizer brand. I have personally tested some vendor supplied water that was ridiculously bad. It's not to say that there are not other good ones, but they should all be suspect, and the Hospira is the gold standard. It's hard to get because Lilly pressured to get it restricted as an RX-only product to try to stop people from using gray market peptides. Fuck those people.

Also this... Hilariously, the gray market has already branded a Retatrutide-Eloralintide as "Loretta" before anyone even thought to make it in the primary market. Also, "GLP-R" is code word for reta.

It looks like around $300-ish for 10 vials of Eloralintide, 10mg each, plus a few bucks for shipping and BTC exchange. This is round 1 testing. Usually this is good, however recently, we had a shitshow of two vendors failing once we did our own tests. The process: This peptide is still in China. The manufacturer does a test. They know we will further test, so USUALLY they don't fake anything. Recently, a different vendor, either faked it and/or mixed vials. That was the huge delay in re-doing the buy. Then it arrives here, and random vials go to three labs. They test, and give us the results.

Weird, while I noticed it was not a perfect fit, I found a "notch" or specific position that seemed natural. I just went slow at tightening the screws in different ways until it sort of forced itself into a spot that is the most natural. A few minutes of fucking around. Shit, I forgot to ceramic coat it, and now it's dirty. Embarassing.

I added 2.5mg of Cagrilintide on Wednesdays to complement 10-11mg of tirzepatide on Sundays. I've noticed zero change in side effects. Some people had warned me they had significant sides. The CGM doesn't lie, the blood sugar control improvement was significant. Eloralintide is the hot new thing though, and is documented to have fewer sides. However the two sources I would want to get it from both just had AWFUL testing results. Like the factories haven't figured out how to duplicate it quite perfectly yet. Won't be long, I'm sure. I just talked to someone who is in an actual clinical trial that combines Eloralintide and Mounjaro/Zepbound/tirzepatide. Similar to what I do with Cagrilintide, except of course, cagri=Novo and tirz=Lilly so they'd never be combined. He reports a jump in effectiveness also.

BMR and TDEE generally go down with age, both directly and indirectly. Directly as cells lose some ability to convert energy, and indirectly due to muscle mass loss. Pure CICO fails also because even things like WHEN you eat and how long you go between meals has been proven to be additional factors. It looks like possibly even food pairings have some value.

So the same price as 100-150 weeks' worth at a typical median dosage. Also if it's ever over 86 degrees, it's damaged to some extent, per Eli Lilly. I have a friend who is unsure about having his crazy Cuban friend supply drugs, so he walks into a pharmacy and pays for the real thing. I totally get that. Paying some random idiot at a sand rail show (I think you said that's what it was?) is obviously far worse. Guarantee you they are not doing the triple testing we are. Oh, also, everything is on the way.

I've been using Cagrilintide for a little over a year, with good results and no side effects. Blood sugar control is very good. I combine it with tirzepatide, while Novo combines it with Semaglutide. I hated that peptide though. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/10/02/lilly-novo-amylin-obesity-drugs.html That's the early potential of a new slate of injections, pills, and combination regimens targeting the amylin pathway, which involves a hormone released in the pancreas alongside insulin that helps regulate hunger and fullness. Amylin gives Eli Lilly, Novo and several other companies another biological lever to pull in treating obesity and Type 2 diabetes, either as an independent treatment or layered on top of existing drugs. Novo's experimental amylin-based drug, cagrilintide, has shown meaningful weight loss as a standalone treatment in a late-stage trial. Combining it with semaglutide – together dubbed CagriSema – has produced even greater weight loss in clinical studies. CagriSema is expected to launch early next year, followed by standalone cagrilintide and a higher-dose version of CagriSema in 2028.

Pure CICO has been proven false.

Good start, BUT... The battery has that voltage straight out of the bike? The bike that was only producing 12.something? Or after being charged outside the bike?

Most people believe that exercise is critical for weight loss, but it's really not. It's helpful, but not that important. In some cases, it has been psychologically counter-productive. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/friday-favorites-the-exercise-myth-and-secret-for-weight-loss Don't look it up: How many Oreos do you burn by climbing the Empire State building and back down?

If the voltage goes up at high RPM, then they can be related. I believe you said it doesn't, at least, not by a huge amount. So not likely related, not impossible either. You're chasing a ghost now. You need to fix this, so just fix it and see. Also if you need a battery, I've put lithiums in my last two birds, and everything else, and will never buy another AGM.

Maybe, dunno. I have yet to ride a delinked bike that I liked.

Shipment is very close, finally...