I have been running hCG for two months and the honest summary is that the effect is smaller than the internet suggests and real.
What the hormone class does pharmacologically does not require the subjective effect to be large to be real.
The measured outcome and the hoped-for outcome are rarely the same thing in these threads.
Curious whether the popular dose has any basis or is just the convenient one.
Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything.
Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at.
Same here.
Same here.
Same for me with hCG, unfortunately.
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.
Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.
Read methods.
A certificate of analysis answers one question and gets quoted as though it answers four.
Most of what is called evidence here is one person, one vial, one month.
My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing.
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero? Two months in on hCG and it lines up.
Read methods. Same for me with hCG, unfortunately.
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero?
Baseline first.