Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?

Narrow conclusion, briefly right. Broad conclusion, interestingly wrong. I know which I keep choosing. Same for me with hexarelin, unfortunately.

Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.

Same here.

Same here.

Same for me with hexarelin, unfortunately.

What is the first thing you would read if you were starting from zero?

Name the active ingredient, not just the brand. It makes these threads searchable years later.

Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at. Vivid dreams was my main issue with hexarelin too.

Sleep, food, or the compound? Yes.

Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything.

Is a baseline blood test really necessary before starting something like this?

Read methods.

Stupid question: how do you know whether what is in the vial matches the label at all?

A plausible mechanism is not an outcome, and this class is the textbook example.

Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.