I have been running AOD-9604 for a year and the honest summary is that the effect is smaller than the internet suggests and real.
Cold storage, light protection, date on the vial. Boring, removes half the variables.
Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.
Read methods.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?
Narrow conclusion.
Same here.
Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this? Water retention was my main issue with AOD-9604 too.
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.
Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at.
If it needs three other compounds to notice, you have not tested the first one.
Reconstitution arithmetic is only half the problem. The other half is what was in the vial.
Read methods.
Cold storage, light protection, date on the vial. Boring, removes half the variables. Same for me with AOD-9604, unfortunately.
Loose evidence is not nothing, but a washout either side is the only reason to trust your own take.