I have been running CJC-1295 for two years and the honest summary is that the effect is smaller than the internet suggests and real.
I have started logging dose, time, and sleep because otherwise the anecdote is just a mood.
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.
Water retention and mild lethargy in the first fortnight are the usual pattern.
Would like a narrow answer rather than an enthusiastic one.
Sleep, food, or the compound? Yes.
Narrow conclusion.
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.
I would take the narrow conclusion. Broad ones are more interesting and less true.
Same here.
An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.
What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero?
Loose evidence is not nothing, but a washout either side is the only reason to trust your own take.
Same here.