I have been running AOD-9604 for four months and the honest summary is that the effect is smaller than the internet suggests and real.
Loose evidence is not the same as no evidence and people overcorrect in both directions.
What surprised me is how much of the perceived benefit was routine and attention rather than pharmacology.
Injection site reactions are trivial until they are not, and a fresh needling technique removes half of them.
Anyone got a paper worth reading on this rather than a write-up of a paper?
I would take the narrow conclusion. Broad ones are more interesting and less true.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Most of the popular protocol is borrowed from a clinical population and applied to healthy people without comment.
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?
Sleep, food, or the compound? Yes.
Same here.
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?